by our College Data Analytics Team
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Durham Technical Community College was awarded 29 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is allied health & medical assisting services.
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College Factual ranked Durham Technical Community College as #989 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Durham Technical Community College held the #1,197 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 93 colleges in North Carolina, Durham Technical Community College is ranked at #27.
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As long as you meet basic requirements, you should not have any trouble getting into Durham Technical Community College 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 Durham Technical Community College is an impressive 6 to 1. That's quite good when you compare it to the national average of 15 to 1. This is a good sign that students at the school will have more opportunities for one-on-one interactions with their professors.
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 Durham Technical Community College is 17%. This is lower than 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 Durham Technical Community College is 66%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 4,672 undergraduates at Durham Technical Community College with 866 being full-time and 3,806 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 Durham Technical Community College, 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 Durham Technical Community College, approximately 7% of students took out student loans averaging $6,753 a year. That adds up to $27,012 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Durham Technical Community College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1637 Lawson Street, Durham, NC 27703-5023 |
| Phone: | 919-536-7200 |
| Website: | www.durhamtech.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 270 | NA |
| Computer Information Systems | 94 | NA |
| Linguistics & Comparative Literature | 93 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 71 | NA |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 64 | NA |
| Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services | 47 | NA |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 39 | NA |
| Nursing | 38 | NA |
| Health & Medical Administrative Services | 36 | NA |
| Accounting | 34 | NA |
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, 3,769 students took at least one online class at Durham Technical Community College. This is an increase from the 3,686 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 3,769 | 2,553 |
| 2021-2022 | 3,686 | 2,723 |
| 2020-2021 | 4,601 | 4,447 |
| 2018-2019 | 2,357 | 761 |
Learn more about online learning at Durham Technical 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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