by our College Data Analytics Team
College 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.
Rockingham Community College was awarded 22 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts general studies.
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RCC is ranked #682 out of 2,152 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2025 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when RCC held the #1,598 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
RCC also holds the #22 spot on the Best Colleges in North Carolina ranking.
If you are worried about getting into Rockingham 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 to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Rockingham Community College, this ratio is 14 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
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 Rockingham Community College is 26%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 49% tells us that most first-year, full-time students don't stick around for a second year at Rockingham Community College. Students may have a variety of reasons for this, such as only intending to attend a school for one year while they brush up on certain subjects.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,922 undergraduates at RCC with 522 being full-time and 1,400 being part-time.
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 RCC, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
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Get more details about the location of Rockingham Community College.
Contact details for RCC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 215 Wrenn Memorial Road, Wentworth, NC 27375 |
| Phone: | 336-342-4261 |
| Website: | https://www.rockinghamcc.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 131 | NA |
| Precision Metal Working | 47 | NA |
| Nursing | 42 | NA |
| Allied Health Professions | 34 | NA |
| Electrical & Power Transmission Installers | 25 | NA |
| Health & Medical Administrative Services | 24 | NA |
| Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants | 20 | NA |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 17 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 15 | NA |
| Computer Information Systems | 15 | 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, 1,471 students took at least one online class at Rockingham Community College. This is an increase from the 1,260 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 1,471 | 915 |
| 2021-2022 | 1,260 | 639 |
| 2020-2021 | 1,907 | 1,866 |
| 2018-2019 | 866 | 251 |
Learn more about online learning at Rockingham 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.
References
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