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Columbia State Community College is ranked #1,627 out of 2,152 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2025 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Columbia State Community College held the #1,858 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Columbia State Community College is also ranked #33 out of 41 schools in Tennessee.
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If you are worried about getting into Columbia State 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.
The student to faculty ratio at Columbia State Community College is 19 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.
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 Columbia State Community College is 32%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 48% tells us that most first-year, full-time students don't stick around for a second year at Columbia State Community College. Students may have a variety of reasons for this, such as only intending to attend a school for one year while they brush up on certain subjects.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 5,931 undergraduates at Columbia State Community College with 3,047 being full-time and 2,884 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 Columbia State Community College, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At Columbia State Community College, approximately 2% of students took out student loans averaging $4,690 a year. That adds up to $18,760 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Columbia State Community College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1665 Hampshire Pike, Columbia, TN 38401 |
| Phone: | 931-540-2730 |
| Website: | https://www.columbiastate.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 664 | NA |
| Allied Health Professions | 156 | NA |
| Nursing | 87 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 40 | NA |
| Computer Information Systems | 28 | NA |
| General Engineering Technology | 24 | NA |
| Audiovisual Communications | 19 | NA |
| General Education | 19 | NA |
| Veterinary/Animal Health Technologies/Technicians | 16 | NA |
| Interdisciplinary Studies | 15 | NA |
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 2022-2023, 2,752 students took at least one online class at Columbia State Community College. This is a decrease from the 4,719 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 2,752 | 1,139 |
| 2021-2022 | 4,719 | 2,217 |
| 2020-2021 | 5,848 | 4,609 |
| 2018-2019 | 2,540 | 738 |
Learn more about online learning at Columbia State 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.
References
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