by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual recognizes the best colleges and universities in its annual rankings. These rankings include categories for best overall colleges, best colleges for each major, best value schools, and much more.
Lord Fairfax Community College was awarded 1 badge in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts general studies.
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Lord Fairfax Community College landed the #1,217 spot in College Factual's 2025 ranking of best overall colleges in the United States. The higher ed experts analyzed 2,152 colleges and universities across the nation to determine this ranking. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Lord Fairfax Community College held the #1,682 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Lord Fairfax Community College is also ranked #33 out of 57 schools in Virginia.
Lord Fairfax Community College has an open admissions policy, so you should not have much trouble being accepted by the school. Still, it is important to fill out the application completely and submit any requested materials, which may include proof that you have a high school diploma or the equivalent.
The student to faculty ratio at Lord Fairfax Community College is 25 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1. This may indicate that some of your classes will be larger in size than they would be at other schools. However, upper level classes will probably be smaller.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Lord Fairfax Community College is 26%. 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 Lord Fairfax Community College is 65%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 6,337 undergraduates at Lord Fairfax Community College with 1,889 being full-time and 4,448 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $4,893 | $5,735 | $6,775 | $8,686 | $10,909 |
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 Lord Fairfax Community College, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Lord Fairfax Community College, approximately 6% of students took out student loans averaging $5,491 a year. That adds up to $21,964 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Lord Fairfax Community College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 173 Skirmisher Lane, Middletown, VA 22645 |
| Phone: | 800-906-5322 |
| Website: | https://www.laurelridge.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 686 | NA |
| Allied Health Professions | 225 | NA |
| Biological & Physical Science | 159 | NA |
| Nursing | 94 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 41 | NA |
| Health & Medical Administrative Services | 31 | NA |
| Human Development & Family Studies | 30 | NA |
| Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants | 19 | NA |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 14 | NA |
| Electronics Engineering Technology | 11 | NA |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2022-2023, 2,829 students took at least one online class at Lord Fairfax Community College. This is a decrease from the 2,942 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 2,829 | 1,351 |
| 2021-2022 | 2,942 | 1,504 |
| 2020-2021 | 3,817 | 2,106 |
| 2018-2019 | 2,751 | 975 |
Learn more about online learning at Lord Fairfax Community College.
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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