by our College Data Analytics Team
College 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.
Genesee Community College was awarded 26 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is general studies.
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GCC landed the #1,043 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This is an improvement over the previous year, when GCC held the #2,013 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 136 colleges in New York, GCC is ranked at #93.
If you are worried about getting into Genesee Community College, don't be. The school has a liberal open admissions policy, which means you only need to meet basic requirements in order to be admitted. Still, be sure to submit a complete application and provide any other requested materials.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Genesee Community College, this ratio is 14 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
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 Genesee Community College is 39%. This is lower 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 Genesee Community College this rate is 56%, which is a bit lower than the national average of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 4,735 undergraduates at GCC with 1,740 being full-time and 2,995 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $4,359 | $6,035 | $9,787 | $12,290 | $13,699 |
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 GCC, 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 GCC, approximately 38% of students took out student loans averaging $4,795 a year. That adds up to $19,180 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for GCC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | One College Rd, Batavia, NY 14020-9704 |
| Phone: | 585-343-0055 |
| Website: | https://www.genesee.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Mental & Social Health Services | 158 | NA |
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 158 | NA |
| Nursing | 89 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 56 | NA |
| Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services | 40 | NA |
| Human Services | 26 | NA |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 25 | NA |
| Legal Support Services | 15 | NA |
| Accounting | 14 | NA |
| General Visual & Performing Arts | 13 | 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, 1,835 students took at least one online class at Genesee Community College. This is a decrease from the 1,981 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 1,835 | 879 |
| 2021-2022 | 1,981 | 957 |
| 2020-2021 | 2,885 | 1,870 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,696 | 570 |
Learn more about online learning at Genesee 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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