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Lake Land College Data & Information Overview

165 awards Ranking Badges
Great Price Value for Your Money
13% Student Loan Default Rate
This overview covers the essential stats on Lake Land College, including its rankings, majors, diversity, and more.
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How Well Is Lake Land College Ranked?

#1,723 Best Colleges in Nation
#75 Best Colleges in IL
Medical/Clinical Assistant Highest Ranked Major

2024 Rankings

In its yearly rankings, College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities to determine which ones are the best in a variety of categories, such as overall value, quality, diversity, which schools are the best for each major, and much more.

Lake Land College was awarded 165 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is medical/clinical assistant.

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Overall Quality

College Factual ranked Lake Land College as #1,723 out of 2,217 colleges and universities in the country on its 2024 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Lake Land College held the #1,775 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.

Lake Land College also holds the #75 spot on the Best Colleges in Illinois ranking.

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Is It Hard to Get Into Lake Land College?

Open Admissions Policy

Acceptance Rate

If you are worried about getting into Lake Land 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.

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Lake Land College Faculty

18 to 1 Student to Faculty
43% Full Time Teachers

Student to Faculty Ratio

The student to faculty ratio at Lake Land College is about average at 18 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.

Percent of Full-Time Faculty

When estimating how much access students will have to their teachers, some people like to look at what percentage of faculty members are full time. This is because part-time teachers may not have as much time to spend on campus as their full-time counterparts.

The full-time faculty percentage at Lake Land College is 43%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.

Full-Time Faculty Percent  43 out of 100
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Retention and Graduation Rates at Lake Land College

69% Freshmen Retention

Freshmen Retention Rate

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 Lake Land College is 69%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.

Freshmen Retention Rate  69 out of 100
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Lake Land College Undergraduate Student Diversity

1,928 Full-Time Undergraduates
10.8% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
58.5% Percent Women

During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 3,862 undergraduates at Lake Land College with 1,928 being full-time and 1,934 being part-time.

How Much Does Lake Land College Cost?

$4,523 Net Price
10% Take Out Loans
$15,488 Total Student Loans
The overall average net price of Lake Land College is $4,523. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group. See the table below for the net price for different income groups.

Net Price by Income Group for Lake Land College

$0-30 K $30K-48K $48-75 $75-110K $110K +
$3,136 $4,287 $6,266 $7,898 $9,041

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 Lake Land College, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.

Student Loan Debt

While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At Lake Land College, approximately 10% of students took out student loans averaging $3,872 a year. That adds up to $15,488 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Lake Land College is 13.1%. This is higher than the national default rate of 10.1% so you should proceed with caution when taking out student loans.

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How Much Money Do Lake Land College Graduates Make?

$33,893 Avg Salary of Grads
High Earnings Boost
Although some majors pay more than others, students who graduate from Lake Land College with a bachelor's degree go on to jobs where they make an average salary of $33,893 in their early years. Unfortunately, this is 20% less that the average college graduate's salary of $42,485 per year. However, graduates in your major field may make more.

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Location of Lake Land College

Illinois State
1,928 Full-Time Undergraduates
Town Campus Setting
Lake Land College is a public institution situated in Mattoon, Illinois. The surrounding location of Mattoon is ideal for students who enjoy the charms of a college town.

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Contact details for Lake Land College are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 5001 Lake Land Blvd, Mattoon, IL 61938
Phone: 217-234-5253
Website: www.lakelandcollege.edu/

Lake Land College Majors

36 Majors With Completions
647 Undergraduate Degrees
Learn more about the majors offered at Lake Land College along with which ones have the highest average starting salaries.

Online Learning at Lake Land College

47% Take At Least One Class Online
14% Take All Classes Online

Online courses area a great option for busy, working students as well as for those who have scheduling conflicts and want to study on their own time. As time goes by, expect to see more and more online learning options become available.

In 2020-2021, 1,708 students took at least one online class at Lake Land College. This is a decrease from the 2,665 students who took online classes the previous year.

Year Took at Least One Online Class Took All Classes Online
2020-2021 1,708 513
2019-2020 2,665 1,408
2018-2019 1,760 504
2017-2018 1,827 544
2016-2017 1,740 517

Learn more about online learning at Lake Land College.

Notes and References

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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