East Los Angeles College earned 40 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 6 in the top 1%, 20 in the top 5%, 7 in the top 10% and 7 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #1 of 386 in Most Popular for General Social Sciences, a top 1% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 40 (2027 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 6 / 20
Highest placement: #1 of 386, a top 1% award
Fields of study with a badge: 12
Placements this edition: 233
Badge cutoff: a top 15% placement in a ranking
Source: IPEDS 2025; College Scorecard July 2026; College Factual rankings 2027. Data as of: July 2026.
How Many Ranking Badges Has East Los Angeles College Earned?
East Los Angeles College holds 40 ranking badges across 12 fields of study, 26 of them in the top 5% or better; each badge is an award for placing in the top 15% of a ranking. It has no placements this edition in College Factual’s athletics or online-program rankings. College Factual re-runs each ranking as fresh data is published. These badges come from the 2027 edition. The tier columns show the best placement reached in each ranking. Learn more about our data sources and methodologies. If you are an administrator interested in using our badge program to showcase your college’s strengths, please contact us.
Count by Award Level
Award Level
Badges
Top 1%
6
Top 5%
20
Top 10%
7
Top 15%
7
Total
40
What Is East Los Angeles College Known For?
East Los Angeles College is best known for Social Sciences: 6 of its 39 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include General Social Sciences, Criminal Justice & Corrections and Fire Protection.
Each ranking here is calculated from federal education data, 2027 edition. East Los Angeles College appears in 233 of the College Factual rankings covered on this page.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), serves as the core of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
by our College Data Analytics Team