by our College Data Analytics Team
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.
Northern Virginia Community College was awarded 108 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts / sciences & humanities.
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College Factual ranked Northern Virginia Community College as #205 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 10% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Northern Virginia Community College held the #385 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Northern Virginia Community College is also ranked #9 out of 57 schools in Virginia.
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If you are worried about getting into Northern Virginia 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 Northern Virginia Community College is 28 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.
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 Northern Virginia Community College is 35%. 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 Northern Virginia Community College is 71%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 52,873 undergraduates at Northern Virginia Community College with 15,551 being full-time and 37,322 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $7,814 | $8,649 | $10,493 | $13,830 | $15,522 |
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 Northern Virginia Community College, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
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 Northern Virginia Community College, approximately 15% of students took out student loans averaging $4,779 a year. That adds up to $19,116 over four years for those students.
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Get more details about the location of Northern Virginia Community College.
Contact details for Northern Virginia Community College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 4001 Wakefield Chapel Rd, Annandale, VA 22003-3796 |
| Phone: | 703-323-3000 |
| Website: | https://www.nvcc.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 3,745 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 1,076 | NA |
| Computer Information Systems | 654 | NA |
| Information Technology | 383 | NA |
| General Social Sciences | 383 | NA |
| Biological & Physical Science | 318 | NA |
| Computer Science | 294 | NA |
| Electronics Engineering Technology | 273 | NA |
| Human Development & Family Studies | 259 | NA |
| General Engineering | 216 | NA |
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 2022-2023, 28,252 students took at least one online class at Northern Virginia Community College. This is a decrease from the 31,227 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 28,252 | 14,133 |
| 2021-2022 | 31,227 | 17,481 |
| 2020-2021 | 39,318 | 35,171 |
| 2018-2019 | 12,321 | 5,373 |
Learn more about online learning at Northern Virginia 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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