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West Hills College-Coalinga was awarded 31 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is mental & social health services.
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College Factual ranked West Hills College-Coalinga as #1,660 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 West Hills College-Coalinga held the #1,928 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
West Hills College-Coalinga is also ranked #155 out of 168 schools in California.
As long as you meet basic requirements, you should not have any trouble getting into West Hills College-Coalinga since the school has an open admissions policy. Still, be sure to submit any requested materials and that your application is completed in full.
At West Hills College-Coalinga, the student to faculty ratio is 25 to 1. Compared to the national average of 15 to 1, this is somewhat high. This could mean that class sizes may be larger than they are at other colleges or universities or that professors may be required to teach more classes.
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 West Hills College-Coalinga is 38%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate is a sign of how many full-time students like a college or university well enough to come back for their sophomore year. At West Hills College-Coalinga this rate is 61%, which is a bit lower than the national average of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 4,229 undergraduates at West Hills College-Coalinga with 473 being full-time and 3,756 being part-time.
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 West Hills College-Coalinga, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
The student loan default rate at West Hills College-Coalinga is 22.4%. Watch out! This is significantly higher than the national default rate of 10.1%, which means you could have trouble paying back your student loans if you take any out.
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Contact details for West Hills College-Coalinga are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 300 Cherry Lane, Coalinga, CA 93210 |
| Phone: | 559-934-2000 |
| Website: | https://www.westhillscollege.com/coalinga/ |
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, 2,981 students took at least one online class at West Hills College-Coalinga. This is a decrease from the 4,195 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 2,981 | 2,477 |
| 2019-2020 | 4,195 | 4,132 |
| 2018-2019 | 2,891 | 2,103 |
| 2017-2018 | 3,526 | 2,618 |
| 2016-2017 | 2,555 | 1,760 |
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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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