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Brunswick Community College Data & Information Overview

17 awards Ranking Badges
Great Price Value for Your Money
This overview covers the essential stats on Brunswick Community College, including its rankings, majors, diversity, and more.
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How Well Is Brunswick Community College Ranked?

#764 Best Colleges in Nation
#23 Best Colleges in NC
Nursing Highest Ranked Major
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2025 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.

Brunswick Community College was awarded 17 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is nursing.

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Overall Quality

According to College Factual's 2025 analysis, Brunswick Community College is ranked #764 out of 2,152 schools in the nation that were analyzed for overall quality. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Brunswick Community College held the #1,945 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.

Brunswick Community College also holds the #23 spot on the Best Colleges in North Carolina ranking.

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Is It Hard to Get Into Brunswick Community College?

Open Admissions Policy

Acceptance Rate

Since Brunswick Community College has an open admissions policy, being accepted to the school isn't that hard. However, a full basic things - such as a high school diploma or equivalent - may be required. Also, go over your application to make sure it is complete before you submit it.

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Brunswick Community College Faculty

12 to 1 Student to Faculty
21% Full Time Teachers

Student to Faculty Ratio

At Brunswick Community College, the student to faculty ratio is an excellent 12 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.

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 Brunswick Community College is 21%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.

Full-Time Faculty Percent  21 out of 100
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Retention and Graduation Rates at Brunswick Community College

67% Freshmen Retention

Freshmen Retention Rate

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 Brunswick Community College is 67%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.

Freshmen Retention Rate  67 out of 100
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Brunswick Community College Undergraduate Student Diversity

487 Full-Time Undergraduates
27.1% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
57.1% Percent Women

During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,553 undergraduates at Brunswick Community College with 487 being full-time and 1,066 being part-time.

How Much Does Brunswick Community College Cost?

$7,084 Net Price
1% Take Out Loans
$44,000 Total Student Loans
The overall average net price of Brunswick Community College is $7,084. 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 Brunswick Community College, 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 Brunswick Community College, approximately 1% of students took out student loans averaging $11,000 a year. That adds up to $44,000 over four years for those students.

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How Much Money Do Brunswick Community College Graduates Make?

$36,668 Avg Salary of Grads
High Earnings Boost
Yearly salaries vary depending on what you major in, but on average, bachelor's degree recipients from Brunswick Community College make around $36,668 per year during the early years of their employment. This is about 26% less that the average pay for college graduates overall. However, graduates with your major may make more.

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Location of Brunswick Community College

North Carolina State
487 Full-Time Undergraduates
Rural Campus Setting
Located in Bolivia, North Carolina, Brunswick Community College is a public institution. The rural area surrounding the school is great for students who prefer living in a country setting.

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Contact details for Brunswick Community College are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 50 College Rd, Bolivia, NC 28422-9021
Phone: 910-755-7300
Website: www.brunswickcc.edu/

Brunswick Community College Majors

17 Majors With Completions
908 Undergraduate Degrees
908 Graduate Degrees
During the most recent year for which we have data, students from 17 majors graduated from Brunswick Community College. Of these students, 908 received undergraduate degrees and 908 graduated with a master's or doctor's degree. The following table lists the most popular undergraduate majors along with the average salary graduates from those majors make.

Most Popular Majors Bachelor’s Degrees Average Salary of Graduates
Liberal Arts General Studies 233 NA
Criminal Justice & Corrections 39 NA
Business Administration & Management 35 NA
Computer Information Systems 26 NA
Precision Metal Working 22 NA
Horticulture 19 NA
Health & Physical Education 19 NA
Teacher Education Grade Specific 18 NA
Accounting 14 NA
Cosmetology 8 NA

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

Online Learning at Brunswick Community College

89% Take At Least One Class Online
55% Take All Classes Online

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 2022-2023, 1,493 students took at least one online class at Brunswick Community College. This is a decrease from the 1,564 students who took online classes the previous year.

Year Took at Least One Online Class Took All Classes Online
2022-2023 1,493 928
2021-2022 1,564 1,132
2020-2021 1,532 1,498
2018-2019 837 282

Learn more about online learning at Brunswick 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.

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