by our College Data Analytics TeamIn its yearly rankings, College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities to determine which ones are the best in a variety of categories, such as overall value, quality, diversity, which schools are the best for each major, and much more.
Wilkes Community College was awarded 120 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is accounting.
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College Factual ranked Wilkes Community College as #2,014 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 Wilkes Community College held the #2,062 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Wilkes Community College is also ranked #83 out of 93 schools in North Carolina.
If you are worried about getting into Wilkes 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.
At Wilkes Community College, the student to faculty ratio is an excellent 6 to 1. That's much better than the national average of 15 to 1. This indicates that many classes will probably be small, and students will have ample opportunites to work closely with their professors and classmates.
When estimating how much access students will have to their teachers, some people like to look at what percentage of faculty members are full time. This is because part-time teachers may not have as much time to spend on campus as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Wilkes Community College is 25%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate tells us what percentage of first-year, full-time students choose to continue on to their sophomore year at a particular school. The rate at Wilkes Community College is 65%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,435 undergraduates at Wilkes Community College with 938 being full-time and 1,497 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $1,348 | $2,377 | $3,765 | $6,425 | $10,578 |
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 Wilkes Community College, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
The student loan default rate at Wilkes Community College is 16.5%. 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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Get more details about the location of Wilkes Community College.
Contact details for Wilkes Community College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1328 South Collegiate Dr, Wilkesboro, NC 28697 |
| Phone: | 336-838-6100 |
| Website: | www.wilkescc.edu/ |
Online courses area a great option for busy, working students as well as for those who have scheduling conflicts and want to study on their own time. As time goes by, expect to see more and more online learning options become available.
In 2020-2021, 1,991 students took at least one online class at Wilkes Community College. This is a decrease from the 2,369 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 1,991 | 1,357 |
| 2019-2020 | 2,369 | 2,043 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,359 | 609 |
| 2017-2018 | 1,226 | 491 |
| 2016-2017 | 1,238 | 362 |
Learn more about online learning at Wilkes 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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