by our College Data Analytics Team
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Garden City Community College was awarded 6 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is general studies.
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College Factual ranked Garden City Community College as #1,344 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list.
Garden City Community College is also ranked #18 out of 44 schools in Kansas.
Garden City Community 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.
With a student to faculty ratio of 13 to 1, Garden City Community College is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.
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 Garden City Community College is 100%. This is higher 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 Garden City Community College is 65%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,868 undergraduates at Garden City Community College with 798 being full-time and 1,070 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $3,511 | $3,965 | $5,876 | $9,508 | $10,235 |
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 Garden City 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 Garden City Community College, approximately 12% of students took out student loans averaging $4,644 a year. That adds up to $18,576 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Garden City Community College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 801 Campus Dr, Garden City, KS 67846-6333 |
| Phone: | 620-276-7611 |
| Website: | www.gcccks.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 239 | NA |
| Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants | 126 | NA |
| Food Processing | 43 | NA |
| Precision Metal Working | 42 | NA |
| Carpentry | 29 | NA |
| Health Aids/Attendants/Orderlies | 29 | NA |
| Cosmetology | 28 | NA |
| Fire Protection | 21 | NA |
| Agricultural Mechanization | 19 | NA |
| Agricultural Production | 17 | 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, 872 students took at least one online class at Garden City Community College. This is a decrease from the 1,034 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 872 | 401 |
| 2021-2022 | 1,034 | 431 |
| 2020-2021 | 1,249 | 399 |
| 2018-2019 | 661 | 188 |
Learn more about online learning at Garden City 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.
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