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Red Rocks Community College was awarded 8 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is health professions.
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College Factual ranked Red Rocks Community College as #667 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 Red Rocks Community College held the #1,155 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 31 colleges in Colorado, Red Rocks Community College is ranked at #12.
If you are worried about getting into Red Rocks 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 is often used as a measure to gauge how much access students will have to their professors - the lower the number, the better. At Red Rocks Community College, this rate is 22 to 1, which is high when compared to the national average of 15 to 1.
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 Red Rocks Community College is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 86% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Red Rocks Community College enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 5,932 undergraduates at Red Rocks Community College with 1,839 being full-time and 4,093 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $7,631 | $9,137 | $10,580 | $15,644 | $17,388 |
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 Red Rocks 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 Red Rocks Community College, approximately 18% of students took out student loans averaging $3,566 a year. That adds up to $14,264 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Red Rocks Community College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 13300 W Sixth Ave, Lakewood, CO 80228-1255 |
| Phone: | 303-914-6600 |
| Website: | www.rrcc.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 389 | NA |
| Allied Health Professions | 270 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 192 | NA |
| Vehicle Maintenance & Repair | 150 | NA |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 140 | NA |
| Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants | 115 | NA |
| Teacher Education Grade Specific | 90 | NA |
| Fire Protection | 83 | NA |
| Cosmetology | 61 | NA |
| Drafting & Design Engineering Technology | 60 | 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, 2,567 students took at least one online class at Red Rocks Community College. This is a decrease from the 3,024 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 2,567 | 1,551 |
| 2021-2022 | 3,024 | 1,714 |
| 2020-2021 | 4,431 | 3,500 |
| 2018-2019 | 2,115 | 1,151 |
Learn more about online learning at Red Rocks 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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