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Western Technical College was not ranked in College Factual's Best Overall Colleges report this year. This may be because not enough data was available.
If you are worried about getting into Western Technical 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 Western Technical College is 30 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 Western Technical College is 75%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 83% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Western Technical College enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,324 undergraduates at Western Technical College with 1,083 being full-time and 241 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 Western Technical College, 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 Western Technical College, approximately 70% of students took out student loans averaging $4,915 a year. That adds up to $19,660 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Western Technical College is 12.5%. 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 Western Technical College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 9624 Plaza Circle, El Paso, TX 79927 |
| Phone: | 915-532-3737 |
| Website: | www.westerntech.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 21 | NA |
| Environmental Control Technology | 0 | NA |
| Vehicle Maintenance & Repair | 0 | NA |
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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