by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
Volunteer State Community College was awarded 59 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is health & medical administrative services.
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College Factual ranked VSCC as #1,881 out of 2,217 colleges and universities in the country on its 2024 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when VSCC held the #1,990 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
VSCC is also ranked #36 out of 45 schools in Tennessee.
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If you are worried about getting into Volunteer State Community College, don't be. The school has a liberal open admissions policy, which means you only need to meet basic requirements in order to be admitted. Still, be sure to submit a complete application and provide any other requested materials.
The student to faculty ratio at Volunteer State Community College is 22 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1. This may indicate that some of your classes will be larger in size than they would be at other schools. However, upper level classes will probably be smaller.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Volunteer State Community College is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 44% tells us that most first-year, full-time students don't stick around for a second year at Volunteer State Community College. Students may have a variety of reasons for this, such as only intending to attend a school for one year while they brush up on certain subjects.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 8,832 undergraduates at VSCC with 4,296 being full-time and 4,536 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5,865 | $6,631 | $8,215 | $9,546 | $10,925 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of VSCC, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At VSCC, approximately 4% of students took out student loans averaging $4,883 a year. That adds up to $19,532 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at VSCC is 11.3%. This is higher than the national default rate of 10.1% so you should proceed with caution when taking out student loans.
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Contact details for VSCC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1480 Nashville Pike, Gallatin, TN 37066-3188 |
| Phone: | 615-452-8600 |
| Website: | www.volstate.edu/ |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2020-2021, 5,344 students took at least one online class at Volunteer State Community College. This is a decrease from the 8,666 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 5,344 | 3,333 |
| 2019-2020 | 8,666 | 7,808 |
| 2018-2019 | 4,290 | 2,187 |
| 2017-2018 | 4,074 | 2,021 |
| 2016-2017 | 3,617 | 1,520 |
Learn more about online learning at Volunteer State Community College.
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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