College has a stunning 37.85% of students now taking all or some online courses 

The Onlinecolleges.com web site has ranked Yavapai College at number ten among the best colleges in the United States to earn an online general studies degree.  The web site used  “data provided by the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), part of the National Center for Education Statistics, to create an overview of the best online colleges for general studies from all U.S. colleges.”

Factors that may have helped the College obtain the number ten rating includes its low reported tuition ($2,064) and high percentage of enrolled students taking online classes (37.85%).

You may view the online evaluation by clicking here.  Reproduced below is the summary shown on the Onlinecolleges.com web site that refers to Yavapai Community College.

Wallethub ranks College overall at 365 from the top of 728 community colleges

According to Wallethub, Yavapai Community College moved from near the bottom of Community college rankings in 2016 to about the middle of community college overall rankings in 2017. Wallethub ranked Yavapai community College at 365 from the top in 2017. Last year it ranked the Community College near the bottom at  716.                                                                                          

Cochise Community College received a number two ranking in 2017 while in 2016 it received a fourth place ranking.  In reporting the 2017 ranking, the Verde Independent provided the data used to assess Yavapai Community College.  The table that follows is based on that information.

Sources:  Click here to go to the Wallethub site.  Click here to read Howard Fischer’s article in the Verde Independent of August 25, 2017.  Click here to read Prescott’s Daily Courier article, “Yavapai College earns mediocre national ranking.”

Ranks College overall at 716 from the top

Yavapai Community College received an overall national ranking of 716 from an evaluation conducted by Wallethub.  Wallethub claimed it used Data to create the ranking  from the National Center for Education Statistics, Council for Community and Economic Research and College Measures.  You may visit the Wallethub website ranking post by clicking here. 

The following is a chart showing the ranking conducted by Wallethub of Yavapai College compared to the top two Community Colleges.