by our College Data Analytics Team
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Salem Community College was awarded 2 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is nursing.
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Salem County College landed the #980 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 Salem County College held the #1,130 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Salem 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.
With a student to faculty ratio of 15 to 1, Salem 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 Salem Community College is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 73% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Salem 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 865 undergraduates at Salem County College with 529 being full-time and 336 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $8,825 | $9,473 | $11,896 | $16,272 | $15,843 |
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 Salem County College, 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 Salem County College, approximately 8% of students took out student loans averaging $5,612 a year. That adds up to $22,448 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Salem County College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 460 Hollywood Avenue, Carneys Point, NJ 08069-2799 |
| Phone: | 856-299-2100 |
| Website: | https://www.salemcc.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Allied Health Professions | 47 | NA |
| Nursing | 40 | NA |
| Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants | 29 | NA |
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 23 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 17 | NA |
| General Education | 14 | NA |
| Design & Applied Arts | 11 | NA |
| Fine & Studio Arts | 11 | NA |
| Other Precision Production | 8 | NA |
| General Psychology | 7 | 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, 606 students took at least one online class at Salem Community College. This is an increase from the 569 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 606 | 165 |
| 2021-2022 | 569 | 165 |
| 2020-2021 | 770 | 436 |
| 2018-2019 | 337 | 62 |
Learn more about online learning at Salem 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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