Arizona Western College Overview

Arizona Western College is a public institution located in Yuma, Arizona. The location of the school is great for students who enjoy the amenities of city life.

What Is Arizona Western College Known For?

• The 3% student loan default rate at AWC is better than the national rate of 10.1%. That's a good sign that you may be able to pay off student loans easier than your peers at other schools can.
• The highest award offered at AWC is the associate's degree.
• For the <nil> academic year, 33% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Arizona Western College?

Contact details for AWC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	2020 S. Avenue 8E, Yuma, AZ 85365-8834
Phone:	928-317-6000
Website:	www.azwestern.edu

How Do I Get Into AWC?

You can apply to AWC online at: https://azwestern.elluciancrmrecruit.com/Apply/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2fApply

Arizona Western College has an open admissions policy. This means that the school accepts all applicants assuming that they meet very basic requirements, such as having a high school diploma or equivalent.

Can I Afford Arizona Western College?

Student Loan Debt

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 AWC, approximately 1% of students took out student loans averaging $4,583 a year. That adds up to $18,332 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at AWC is 3.3%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Arizona Western College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 8,081 undergraduate students at AWC, with 2,012 being full-time and 6,069 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 2,012 full-time undergraduates at AWC, 44% are male and 56% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Arizona Western College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	14
Black or African American	23
Hispanic or Latino	1,494
White	232
International Students	89
Other Races/Ethnicities	160

Over 32 countries are represented at AWC. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Mexico, Colombia, and Vietnam.

Online Learning at Arizona Western College

In 2020-2021, 5,699 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at AWC has changed over the last few years.

Online Growth Rankings of AWC

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Arizona Western College was 11.0%. This is the #1,352 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at AWC regardless of major.

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

References

*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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics

More about our data sources and methodologies.