Lorain County Community College
Lorain County Community College is located in Elyria, Ohio. It is a public, 4-year or above institution.
From Wikipedia: Lorain County Community College (LCCC) is a public community college in the city of Elyria in Lorain County, Ohio, with learning centers in Wellington, North Ridgeville, and Lorain. In addition to associate degrees and certificates, students can earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees on campus through the college’s partnerships with universities.
Notes
These are items that bear looking into more closely.
- 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: $3,896 . This is 20% 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, large
In state percentage: 99% of first year students come from Ohio
In US percentage: 100% of first year students come from the US
Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: 20.1 (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]
Student to faculty ratio: 18.7 (undergrads to all faculty)
Degrees offered: Certificate of less than 1 year, Certificate of less than 12 weeks, 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, Bachelor’s degree
Schedule: Semester
Institution provides on campus housing: No
Freshmen required to live on campus: No
Advanced placement (AP) credits used: Yes
Disabilities: 5.61 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.
- Lorain County Community College lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: Sinclair Community College, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, Waubonsee Community College, Owens Community College, Terra State Community College, Stark State College, J Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Central Ohio Technical College, Zane State College, Belmont College
- Lorain County Community College compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: Antelope Valley Community College District, Jackson College, Columbus State Community College, Cuyahoga Community College District, Chattanooga State Community College, Normandale Community College, Chandler-Gilbert Community College, University of Cincinnati-Blue Ash College, Pensacola State College, State College of Florida-Manatee-Sarasota, John C Calhoun State Community College, Onondaga Community College, Century College, Elgin Community College, Montgomery County Community College, County College of Morris, Solano Community College, Truckee Meadows Community College, Spokane Falls Community College, Laredo College, City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College, Oakton College, Edmonds College, Essex County College, Mt Hood Community College, Delaware County Community College, Bucks County Community College, Rose State College, Jefferson Community and Technical College, Mercer County Community College, Lincoln Land Community College, City Colleges of Chicago-Harold Washington College, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Kent State University at Stark, Scottsdale Community College, Middlesex Community College, Lakeland Community College, Heartland Community College, Lewis and Clark Community College, St Clair County Community College, Kent State University at Tuscarawas, University of Cincinnati-Clermont College, City Colleges of Chicago-Richard J Daley College, Highland Community College, Monroe County Community College, Highland Community College, Kent State University at Trumbull, Olney Central College, Kent State University at Geauga, Bowling Green State University-Firelands, Eastern Gateway Community College, Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute, Wabash Valley College, Wake Technical Community College, Lincoln Trail College, Ozarks Technical Community College, Fayetteville Technical Community College, Guilford Technical Community College, Chemeketa Community College, Kent State University at Ashtabula, Southeast Community College Area, Frontier Community College, Butler Community College, Lane Community College, Community College of Denver, Mott Community College, Virginia Western Community College, Hocking College, Edison State Community College, Muskegon Community College, Clark State College, North Central State College, James A. Rhodes State College, Washington State Community College, Northwest State Community College, Southern State Community College, Marion Technical College, Kent State University at East Liverpool, University of Akron Wayne College, Wright State University-Lake Campus
- These institutions compare themselves to Lorain County Community College, but not vice versa: Allan Hancock College, Anne Arundel Community College, Kapiolani Community College, Delgado Community College, Milwaukee Area Technical College, Washtenaw Community College, Luzerne County Community College, Mid Michigan College, Herzing University-Akron
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
Libraries are changing rapidly. Note that how institutions count digital collections may vary.
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.