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SCC was not ranked in College Factual's 2024 Best Overall Colleges report. This could be for a number of reasons, including lack of data.
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.
At Santiago Canyon College, the student to faculty ratio is 37 to 1. Compared to the national average of 15 to 1, this is somewhat high. This could mean that class sizes may be larger than they are at other colleges or universities or that professors may be required to teach more classes.
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 24%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate tells us what percentage of first-year, full-time students choose to continue on to their sophomore year at a particular school. The rate at Santiago Canyon College is 72%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.
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.
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 $3,715 a year. That adds up to $14,860 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at SCC is 9.6%. This is about the same as the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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/Pages/default.aspx |
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 2020-2021, 5,328 students took at least one online class at Santiago Canyon College. This is an increase from the 5,051 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 5,328 | 2,781 |
| 2019-2020 | 5,051 | 2,062 |
| 2018-2019 | 3,929 | 1,726 |
| 2017-2018 | 3,269 | 1,417 |
| 2016-2017 | 2,579 | 1,052 |
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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