by our College Data Analytics Team
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Dakota County Technical College was awarded 420 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is accounting.
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DCTC landed the #386 spot in College Factual's 2024 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,238 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This is an improvement over the previous year, when DCTC held the #645 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 55 colleges in Minnesota, DCTC is ranked at #15.
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Dakota County Technical 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.
At Dakota County Technical College, the student to faculty ratio is 21 to 1. Compared to the national average of 15 to 1, this is somewhat high. This could mean that class sizes may be larger than they are at other colleges or universities or that professors may be required to teach more classes.
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 Dakota County Technical College is 50%. This is comparable to 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 Dakota County Technical College is 65%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 2,319 undergraduates at DCTC with 1,328 being full-time and 991 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $8,511 | $8,435 | $10,271 | $13,432 | $14,573 |
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 DCTC, 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 DCTC, approximately 33% of students took out student loans averaging $5,890 a year. That adds up to $23,560 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at DCTC is 6.1%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.
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Contact details for DCTC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1300 145Th Street East, Rosemount, MN 55068-2999 |
| Phone: | 651-423-8301 |
| Website: | www.dctc.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, 1,464 students took at least one online class at Dakota County Technical College. This is a decrease from the 1,847 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 1,464 | 624 |
| 2019-2020 | 1,847 | 1,034 |
| 2018-2019 | 860 | 303 |
| 2017-2018 | 865 | 287 |
| 2016-2017 | 879 | 276 |
Learn more about online learning at Dakota County Technical 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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