HCC earned 17 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 2 in the top 1%, 2 in the top 5%, 7 in the top 10% and 6 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #13 of 5,042 in Ethnic Diversity, a top 1% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 17 (2027 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 2 / 2
Highest placement: #13 of 5,042, a top 1% award
Fields of study with a badge: 4
Placements this edition: 77
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 Howard Community College Earned?
Howard Community College holds 17 ranking badges across 4 fields of study, 4 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 rankings. Each ranking is recalculated when updated data becomes available. The awards below are from the 2027 edition. This page indicates the top award category achieved for this year. Learn more about our data sources and methodologies. Want to feature these awards on your college’s site? Administrators can contact us.
Count by Award Level
Award Level
Badges
Top 1%
2
Top 5%
2
Top 10%
7
Top 15%
6
Total
17
What Is Howard Community College Known For?
Howard Community College is best known for Business, Management & Marketing: 3 of its 11 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Liberal Arts General Studies, Allied Health Professions and Business & Commerce.
How Does Howard Community College Rank for Online Students?
In College Factual’s 2027 online-program rankings, Howard Community College earned 1 badge across 1 online program; its highest placement is #52 of 584 in Most Popular Online for Liberal Arts General Studies.
Badges on this page come from rankings grounded in U.S. Department of Education data, 2027 edition. Howard Community College appears in 77 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