by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege 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.
Community College of Aurora was awarded 145 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is individualized studies.
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CCA landed the #767 spot in College Factual's 2024 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,217 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This is an improvement over the previous year, when CCA held the #810 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 33 colleges in Colorado, CCA is ranked at #11.
As long as you meet basic requirements, you should not have any trouble getting into Community College of Aurora since the school has an open admissions policy. Still, be sure to submit any requested materials and that your application is completed in full.
The student to faculty ratio at Community College of Aurora is about average at 16 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
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 Community College of Aurora is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate is a sign of how many full-time students like a college or university well enough to come back for their sophomore year. At Community College of Aurora this rate is 57%, which is a bit lower than the national average of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 7,835 undergraduates at CCA with 1,351 being full-time and 6,484 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 CCA, 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 CCA, approximately 21% of students took out student loans averaging $4,391 a year. That adds up to $17,564 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at CCA is 9.5%. This is about the same as the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Contact details for CCA are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 16000 E Centretech Pky, Aurora, CO 80011-9036 |
| Phone: | 303-360-4700 |
| Website: | https://www.ccaurora.edu/ |
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 2020-2021, 1,741 students took at least one online class at Community College of Aurora. This is a decrease from the 1,930 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 1,741 | 1,024 |
| 2019-2020 | 1,930 | 1,077 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,549 | 812 |
| 2017-2018 | 1,383 | 744 |
| 2016-2017 | 1,738 | 922 |
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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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