by our College Data Analytics Team
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Santiago Canyon College was awarded 10 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is liberal arts general studies.
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SCC landed the #354 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 puts it in the top 20% of all schools in the nation.
SCC also holds the #49 spot on the Best Colleges in California ranking.
If you are worried about getting into Santiago Canyon 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 Santiago Canyon College is 36 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.
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 Santiago Canyon College is 25%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 73% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Santiago Canyon 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 9,003 undergraduates at SCC with 2,764 being full-time and 6,239 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $2,053 | $2,893 | $5,546 | $7,787 | $5,433 |
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 SCC, 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 SCC, approximately 1% of students took out student loans averaging $4,376 a year. That adds up to $17,504 over four years for those students.
See which majors at Santiago Canyon College make the most money.
Get more details about the location of Santiago Canyon College.
Contact details for SCC are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 8045 E Chapman, Orange, CA 92869-4512 |
| Phone: | 714-628-4900 |
| Website: | www.sccollege.edu/SitePages/Home.aspx |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Liberal Arts General Studies | 1,464 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 166 | NA |
| Biological & Physical Science | 135 | NA |
| General Psychology | 120 | NA |
| Environmental Control Technology | 113 | NA |
| Accounting | 52 | NA |
| Communication & Media Studies | 51 | NA |
| Sociology | 48 | NA |
| General Biology | 35 | NA |
| Mathematics | 34 | 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, 5,978 students took at least one online class at Santiago Canyon College. This is an increase from the 5,328 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 5,978 | 3,548 |
| 2021-2022 | 5,328 | 2,781 |
| 2020-2021 | 5,051 | 2,062 |
| 2018-2019 | 3,269 | 1,417 |
Learn more about online learning at Santiago Canyon 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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