Dutchess Community College
Dutchess Community College is located in Poughkeepsie, New York. It is a public, 2-year institution.
From Wikipedia: Dutchess Community College (SUNY Dutchess, or DCC) is a public community college in Dutchess County, New York. It is one of 30 community colleges within the State University of New York system (SUNY). The main campus, in the town of Poughkeepsie, covers 130 acres (53 ha). DCC also operates the Center for Excellence in Industry and Innovation in Fishkill, approximately 12 miles (19 km) south, in Fishkill and an aviation education center at the Hudson Valley Regional Airport in the town of Wappinger. Over 60 academic programs are offered, the majority of which are geared toward associate degrees or certificates. In addition, the Office of Workforce Development and Continuing Education provides non-credit courses, High School Equivalency completion through preparation for the Test Assessing Secondary Completion (TASC) exam, ESL classes, and workforce training to residents of Dutchess County and beyond. One-third of all Dutchess County college-bound high school graduates attend Dutchess Community College each year. The majority of alumni live and work in the Hudson Valley, and many have become civic and community leaders.
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Notes
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- This institution’s full-time undergraduate enrollment has tended to decrease over time.
Overview of institution
This, and the rest of the page, use info from the most recent year available, generally 2023.
Institution kind: Associate’s Colleges: High Transfer-Mixed Traditional/Nontraditional
Undergrad program: Associate’s Colleges: High Transfer
Graduate program: Not classified (Exclusively Undergraduate)
Enrollment profile: Exclusively undergraduate two-year (see more details below)
Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $8,443 . This is 40% the average cost of Harvard.
Actual price for your family: Go here to see what your family may be asked to pay. It can be MUCH lower than the average price but also higher for some.
Size and setting: Two-year, medium
In state percentage: 97% of first year students come from New York
In US percentage: 98% of first year students come from the US
Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: 24.8 (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]
Student to faculty ratio: 24.1 (undergrads to all faculty)
Degrees offered: Certificate of less than 1 year, Certificate of at least 12 weeks but less than 1 year, Certificate of at least 1 year but less than 2 years, Associate’s degree
Schedule: Semester
Institution provides on campus housing: Yes
Dorm capacity: There are enough dorm beds for 465 students
Freshmen required to live on campus: No
Advanced placement (AP) credits used: Yes
Disabilities: 5.07 percent of undergrads are registered as having disabilities.
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Comparisons
The sections below show this institution compared with others. The ones listed are ones it has identified as peers, who consider themselves peers, and/or who the federal government considers peers. If a comparison school has the same value as the focal school, its cell is grayed out. In fields where there is a common view that higher (or lower) values are better, the best values are in blue, the worst values are in red. If there isn’t a sense of a particular value being better, values are shown in varying shades of green. Arrows show where there is a signficant trend over time for a school. You can swipe across the table to see more of it; the focal school column is always visible.
- Dutchess Community College lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: Nassau Community College, Community College of Philadelphia, Erie Community College, Middlesex College, Onondaga Community College, UCNJ Union College of Union County, NJ, Orange County Community College, Ocean County College, SUNY Corning Community College, Tompkins Cortland Community College
- Dutchess Community College compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY LaGuardia Community College, Suffolk County Community College, CUNY Queensborough Community College, CUNY Kingsborough Community College, Community College of Rhode Island, CUNY Bronx Community College, Bergen Community College, Hudson Valley Community College, Monroe Community College, Harrisburg Area Community College, Brookdale Community College, SUNY Westchester Community College, Community College of Allegheny County, Prince George’s Community College, Anne Arundel Community College, Montgomery County Community College, Volunteer State Community College, Northampton County Area Community College, Bunker Hill Community College, County College of Morris, SUNY Broome Community College, Hudson County Community College, Camden County College, Mohawk Valley Community College, Essex County College, Delaware County Community College, Bucks County Community College, Rowan College of South Jersey-Gloucester Campus, Jefferson Community and Technical College, Rockland Community College, Rowan College at Burlington County, Passaic County Community College, Holyoke Community College, Atlantic Cape Community College, Community College of Baltimore County, Ulster County Community College, Schenectady County Community College, North Country Community College, Sullivan County Community College, Montgomery College, Columbia-Greene Community College, Howard Community College
- These institutions compare themselves to Dutchess Community College, but not vice versa: Niagara County Community College, Harford Community College, Northern Essex Community College, College of Southern Maryland, Western Nevada College, Raritan Valley Community College, Johnson County Community College, Genesee Community College, Community College of Aurora
Enrollment
General
Teaching
Tenure track faculty are those who are eligible for tenure. This includes both pre-tenure and tenured faculty. Once faculty get tenure, they are (generally) protected from being fired for intellectual reasons, helping to ensure their freedom in teaching and research. They can still lose their positions for misconduct, financial problems, not fulfilling their duties, or other reasons.
Non-tenure track faculty are not eligible for tenure. Some are hired one semester at a time, some have multi-year contracts. They typically have a higher teaching load than tenure track faculty, leaving less time for research or other creative endeavors. They are also easier to fire than tenured faculty. Sometimes they are external experts (a noted musician, a former senator) who are hired to teach some classes without the expected permanence of a tenure-track position.
Note that this chart uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races.
Having a low student to faculty ratio is considered a good thing by many, as it can mean more individual attention.
Geography
This has information on the location of the institution. See the about page for more information on what the metrics are and how they are calculated.
Financial Aid
Graduation
Note these are bachelors graduation rates in six years, not four (this is standard). Sample sizes can be small for some demographic groups with few individuals in a school, leading to large year-to-year fluctuations and often extreme values for those groups (if there are two individuals in the class with a given identity, the possible graduation rates are 0%, 50%, or 100% depending on whether zero, one, or both students graduate within six years).
Library
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Diversity
The US Census Bureau has a diversity index that goes from 0 to 1. In their words, “A 0-value indicates that everyone in the population has the same racial and ethnic characteristics. A value close to 1 indicates that everyone in the population has different racial and ethnic characteristics.” This uses their formula, but with the resolution available for the federal IPEDS data (which does not separate for a given demographic group whether members identify as Hispanic or not). This metric is about heterogeneity within the population, not the proportion of the population that comes from historically excluded groups.
Following the practice of the census, the index is multiplied by 100 to give the percentage probability a random pair of individuals will have a different background. Most institutions argue that diversity is a benefit, so by default a higher number is listed as better, but there may be cases where this measure does not reflect the mission of a college (for example, 70% of the students at a tribal college or university may be American Indian: that could be low-scoring by this metric but should not be read as “bad” given the institution’s mission).
These numbers are based on the most recent year available, generally 2023, which predates effects of the US Supreme Court’s striking down of affirmative action. This has often changed, sometimes dramatically, the incoming student demographics at some institutions.
Overall diversity
Freshman profile
Demographic data for first time degree-seeking students. Note that this uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races.
Freshman geography
Test scores
SAT scores
ACT scores
Majors
This presents information on the number of majors and the median earnings one and five years after graduation for people who got a degree from this institution in that field. The earnings are for those who are working and not enrolled in further education. The earnings data (from the federal college scorecard) also has information on earnings for those categorized as ‘MALE’ and ‘NOMALE’ – for readability, these are recategorized here as “Men” and “Women”, respectively, which adopts the gender binary used in other federal data. “W/M earnings ratio” is the median earnings of women divided by men, as a percentage.