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.
Johnston Community College was awarded 314 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is pharmacy technician/assistant.
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Johnston Community College landed the #988 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 Johnston Community College held the #1,375 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Johnston Community College also holds the #21 spot on the Best Colleges in North Carolina ranking.
If you are worried about getting into Johnston 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 Johnston Community College is about average at 13 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
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 Johnston Community College is 29%. 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 Johnston 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 4,182 undergraduates at Johnston Community College with 1,464 being full-time and 2,718 being part-time.
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 Johnston 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 Johnston Community College, approximately 2% of students took out student loans averaging $6,929 a year. That adds up to $27,716 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Johnston Community College is 4.7%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.
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Contact details for Johnston Community College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 245 College Road, Smithfield, NC 27577-2350 |
| Phone: | 919-934-3051 |
| Website: | www.johnstoncc.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, 3,297 students took at least one online class at Johnston Community College. This is a decrease from the 3,566 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 3,297 | 2,260 |
| 2019-2020 | 3,566 | 3,074 |
| 2018-2019 | 2,243 | 956 |
| 2017-2018 | 2,011 | 859 |
| 2016-2017 | 2,006 | 776 |
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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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