Blue Mountain Community College Data & Information Overview

This overview covers the essential stats on Blue Mountain Community College, including its rankings, majors, diversity, and more. All you need to do to learn more about a stat is click on its tile, and you'll be taken to another page that analyzes that data more closely. Also, you can use the links below to scroll to any section of this page.

• Rankings
• Admission and Acceptance
• Faculty
• Retention and Graduation Rates
• Diversity
• Cost
• Student Debt
• Average Earnings
• Location
• Majors
• Online Learning

How Well Is Blue Mountain Community College Ranked?

2021 Rankings

College 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.

Blue Mountain Community College was awarded 4 badges in the 2021 rankings.

Overall Quality

BMCC was not ranked in College Factual's 2021 Best Overall Colleges report. This could be for a number of reasons, including lack of data.

See all of the rankings for Blue Mountain Community College.

Is It Hard to Get Into BMCC?

Acceptance Rate

Blue Mountain Community College has an open admissions policy, so you should not have much trouble being accepted by the school. Still, it is important to fill out the application completely and submit any requested materials, which may include proof that you have a high school diploma or the equivalent.

Learn more about Blue Mountain Community College admissions.

Blue Mountain Community College Faculty

Student to Faculty Ratio

With a student to faculty ratio of 15 to 1, Blue Mountain Community College is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.

Percent of Full-Time Faculty

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 Blue Mountain Community College is 41%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.

Retention and Graduation Rates at Blue Mountain Community College

Freshmen Retention Rate

The freshmen retention rate is a measure of what percentage of first-year, full-time students come back for their sophomore year. The 27% rate at Blue Mountain Community College is a good bit lower than the national rate of 68%. This could be for a number of reasons, such as students transferring after a year because they changed majors.

Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Blue Mountain Community College.

Average Overall Diversity at BMCC

During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,559 undergraduates at BMCC with 767 being full-time and 792 being part-time.

BMCC Diversity Score

When calculating the overall diversity score for a school, College Factual does not just look at the percentage of women and racial-ethnic minorities*. Instead, it looks to see how good of a mixture a school has with regard to gender, ethnicity, age, and location of origin.

BMCC scored 51.32 out of 100 for overall diversity. This is about average when compared to other colleges and universities in the United States.

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How Much Does Blue Mountain Community College Cost?

The overall average net price of BMCC is $12,012. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

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 BMCC, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.

Student Loan Debt

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 BMCC, approximately 12% of students took out student loans averaging $5,608 a year. That adds up to $22,432 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at BMCC is 16.6%. 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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How Much Money Do BMCC Graduates Make?

Although some majors pay more than others, students who graduate from BMCC with a bachelor's degree go on to jobs where they make an average salary of $30,200 in their early years. Unfortunately, this is 24% less that the average college graduate's salary of $39,802 per year. However, graduates in your major field may make more.

See which majors at Blue Mountain Community College make the most money.

Location of Blue Mountain Community College

Blue Mountain Community College is a public institution located in Pendleton, Oregon. Students who love country life may enjoy the rural location of BMCC.

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Contact details for BMCC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	2411 Nw Carden Ave, Pendleton, OR 97801
Phone:	541-276-1260
Website:	https://www.bluecc.edu

Blue Mountain Community College Majors

Learn more about the majors offered at Blue Mountain Community College along with which ones have the highest average starting salaries.

Online Learning at BMCC

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 2017-2018, 848 students took at least one online class at Blue Mountain Community College. This is an increase from the 735 students who took online classes the previous year.

Year	Took at Least One Online Class	Took All Classes Online
2017-2018	848	297
2016-2017	735	241
2015-2016	732	278
2014-2015	784	322
2013-2014	1,084	479

Learn more about online learning at Blue Mountain Community College.

Notes and References

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.

References

• National Center for Education Statistics
• College Scorecard
• Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System

More about our data sources and methodologies.