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Holyoke Community College was awarded 87 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is general music.
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Holyoke Community College landed the #1,888 spot in College Factual's 2024 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,217 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Holyoke Community College held the #2,011 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Holyoke Community College also holds the #62 spot on the Best Colleges in Massachusetts ranking.
If you are worried about getting into Holyoke 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 at Holyoke Community College is an impressive 12 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 Holyoke Community College is 37%. 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 Holyoke Community College is 64%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 4,209 undergraduates at Holyoke Community College with 1,485 being full-time and 2,724 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $6,787 | $7,081 | $9,176 | $12,550 | $12,965 |
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 Holyoke 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 Holyoke Community College, approximately 25% of students took out student loans averaging $3,615 a year. That adds up to $14,460 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Holyoke Community College is 9.5%. This is about the same as the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Contact details for Holyoke Community College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 303 Homestead Ave, Holyoke, MA 01040 |
| Phone: | 413-552-2000 |
| Website: | www.hcc.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, 2,396 students took at least one online class at Holyoke Community College. This is a decrease from the 2,743 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 2,396 | 934 |
| 2019-2020 | 2,743 | 1,043 |
| 2018-2019 | 2,322 | 691 |
| 2017-2018 | 2,409 | 731 |
| 2016-2017 | 2,496 | 739 |
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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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