Kirkwood Community College earned 33 ranking badges in the 2027 College Factual rankings: 3 in the top 1%, 10 in the top 5%, 8 in the top 10% and 12 in the top 15% of the schools in each ranking. Its highest placement is #1 of 296 in Highest Paid Graduates for Natural Resources Conservation, a top 1% award.
Key facts
Badges earned: 33 (2027 edition)
In the top 1% / top 5%: 3 / 10
Highest placement: #1 of 296, a top 1% award
Fields of study with a badge: 8
Placements this edition: 208
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 Kirkwood Community College Earned?
Kirkwood Community College holds 33 ranking badges across 8 fields of study, 13 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. We update our rankings throughout the year as new data becomes available. The current ranking cycle is 2027 edition. A check mark sits in the highest award tier the school reached. Read 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%
3
Top 5%
10
Top 10%
8
Top 15%
12
Total
33
What Is Kirkwood Community College Known For?
Kirkwood Community College is best known for Mechanic & Repair Technologies: 8 of its 32 traditional-student awards are in that field. Its top-ranked majors include Natural Resources Conservation, Agricultural Production and Vehicle Maintenance & Repair.
How Does Kirkwood Community College Rank for Online Students?
Kirkwood Community College earned no online-program badge in the 2027 edition; its highest placement in College Factual’s online-program rankings is #14 of 81 in Most Popular Online for Computer Programming (top 18%).
How Does Kirkwood Community College Rank for Veterans?
In College Factual’s 2027 veterans rankings, Kirkwood Community College earned 1 badge; its highest placement is #566 of 4,939 in Best for Veterans.
Each ranking here is drawn from U.S. Department of Education data, 2027 edition. Kirkwood Community College appears in 208 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