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Onondaga Community College was awarded 4 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts general studies.
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College Factual ranked OCC as #1,421 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when OCC held the #1,901 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
OCC is also ranked #117 out of 136 schools in New York.
If you are worried about getting into Onondaga 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.
With a student to faculty ratio of 16 to 1, Onondaga Community College is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.
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 Onondaga Community College is 30%. 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 Onondaga Community College this rate is 51%, which is a bit lower than the national average of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 8,545 undergraduates at OCC with 3,612 being full-time and 4,933 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $3,333 | $5,129 | $9,058 | $10,942 | $12,665 |
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 OCC, 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 OCC, approximately 32% of students took out student loans averaging $4,812 a year. That adds up to $19,248 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for OCC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 4585 West Seneca Turnpike, Syracuse, NY 13215-4585 |
| Phone: | 315-498-2622 |
| Website: | www.sunyocc.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 312 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 77 | NA |
| Human Services | 77 | NA |
| Nursing | 69 | NA |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 36 | NA |
| Human Development & Family Studies | 29 | NA |
| Health Sciences & Services | 24 | NA |
| Journalism | 22 | NA |
| Computer Science | 22 | NA |
| Electronics Engineering Technology | 20 | NA |
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 2022-2023, 1,363 students took at least one online class at Onondaga Community College. This is a decrease from the 1,397 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 1,363 | 371 |
| 2021-2022 | 1,397 | 449 |
| 2020-2021 | 5,205 | 1,961 |
| 2018-2019 | 1,766 | 491 |
Learn more about online learning at Onondaga 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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