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Western Technical College was not ranked in College Factual's 2025 Best Overall Colleges report. This could be for a number of reasons, including lack of data.
If you are worried about getting into Western Technical 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 Western Technical College is 30 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 Western Technical College is 81%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate is a sign of how many full-time students like a college or university well enough to come back for their sophomore year. At Western Technical College this rate is 55%, which is a bit lower than the national average of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,324 undergraduates at Western Technical College with 1,083 being full-time and 241 being part-time.
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 Western Technical College, approximately 35% of students took out student loans averaging $1,559 a year. That adds up to $6,236 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Western Technical College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 9624 Plaza Circle, El Paso, TX 79927 |
| Phone: | 915-532-3737 |
| Website: | www.westerntech.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Ground Transportation | 379 | NA |
| Vehicle Maintenance & Repair | 192 | NA |
| Precision Metal Working | 158 | NA |
| Environmental Control Technology | 66 | NA |
| Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services | 66 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 27 | NA |
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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