San Jacinto Community College
San Jacinto Community College is located in Pasadena, Texas. It is a public, 4-year or above institution.
From Wikipedia: San Jacinto College (Spanish: Colegio San Jacinto) is a public community college in the Greater Houston area, with its campuses in Pasadena and Houston, Texas. Established in 1961, San Jacinto College originally consisted of the independent school districts (ISD) of Channelview, Deer Park, Galena Park, La Porte, and Pasadena. The college now also serves Sheldon ISD and portions of Clear Creek ISD in Harris County. San Jacinto College headquarters are located in Pasadena, Texas.
Notes
These are items that bear looking into more closely.
- There are apparently no tenure stream faculty. This can indicate a risk to academic freedom and thus educational quality, as faculty members may be able to lose their positions because of their speech, publications, or research findings.
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 Career & Technical-Mixed Traditional/Nontraditional
Undergrad program: Associate’s Colleges: High Career & Technical
Graduate program: Not classified (Exclusively Undergraduate)
Enrollment profile: Exclusively undergraduate two-year (see more details below)
Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $11,077 . This is 60% 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, very large
In state percentage: 98% of first year students come from Texas
In US percentage: 99% of first year students come from the US
Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: Unknown (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]
Student to faculty ratio: 19.2 (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, 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: 3 percent or less 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. 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.
- San Jacinto Community College lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: College of Southern Nevada, Broward College, San Antonio College, Rio Salado College, South Texas College, Montgomery College, Houston Community College, Collin County Community College District, Saint Louis Community College
- San Jacinto Community College compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: Miami Dade College, Valencia College, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College, Tarrant County College District, Mt San Antonio College, Pasadena City College, Santa Monica College, Long Beach City College, Portland Community College, Hillsborough Community College, Suffolk County Community College, City College of San Francisco, El Camino Community College District, St Petersburg College, El Paso Community College, Nassau Community College, Fresno City College, De Anza College, Salt Lake Community College, College of DuPage, Columbus State Community College, Cerritos College, Orange Coast College, Palomar College, East Los Angeles College, American River College, Diablo Valley College, Cuyahoga Community College District, Southwestern College, Santa Rosa Junior College, Riverside City College, Saddleback College, Sacramento City College, Mesa Community College, Indian River State College, Front Range Community College, Sinclair Community College, Los Angeles Pierce College, San Diego Mesa College, Harrisburg Area Community College, Santa Ana College, Glendale Community College, Macomb Community College, Community College of Allegheny County, Los Angeles City College, Delgado Community College, Community College of Baltimore County, Lone Star College System, Ivy Tech Community College, Dallas College, Northern Virginia Community College, Austin Community College District, Des Moines Area Community College, Johnson County Community College, Tidewater Community College, Tulsa Community College, Central New Mexico Community College, Pima Community College, Oakland Community College, Lansing Community College, Central Texas College, Georgia State University-Perimeter College, Wayne County Community College District
- These institutions compare themselves to San Jacinto Community College, but not vice versa: CUNY LaGuardia Community College, Florida State College at Jacksonville, Mt San Jacinto Community College District, Glendale Community College, Del Mar College, City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College, Northwest Vista College, City Colleges of Chicago-Harold Washington College, City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College, North Dakota State College of Science, Alvin Community College, Palo Alto College, St Philip’s College, City Colleges of Chicago-Harry S Truman College, City Colleges of Chicago-Richard J Daley College, City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College, City Colleges of Chicago-Olive-Harvey College, Metropolitan Community College-Kansas City, San Juan College, Grayson College
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. The goal is to neutrally provide information: for example, some individuals want stringent gun control in an area, some want the opposite: the categories are meant to be descriptive.
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.
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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.