Butte College Overview

Located in Oroville, California, Butte College is a public institution. Butte College is located in the countryside, which is perfect for students who enjoy a rural lifestyle.

What Is Butte College Known For?

• The student loan default rate at Butte College is 5%, which is significantly lower than the national rate of 10.1%. That's great news for students who are worrying about paying off their student loans.
• The undergraduate certificate is the highest award offered at Butte College.
• For the <nil> academic year, 33% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Butte College?

Contact details for Butte College are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	3536 Butte Campus Drive, Oroville, CA 95965-8399
Phone:	530-895-2511
Website:	www.butte.edu

How Do I Get Into Butte College?

You can apply to Butte College online at: www.butte.edu/services/admissions/apply.html

Butte 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 Butte College?

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Butte College, approximately 2% of students took out student loans averaging $5,889 a year. That adds up to $23,556 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Butte College is 5.0%. 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.

Butte College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 9,470 undergraduate students at Butte College, with 4,084 being full-time and 5,386 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 4,084 full-time undergraduates at Butte College, 46% are male and 54% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	225
Black or African American	93
Hispanic or Latino	1,234
White	2,087
International Students	70
Other Races/Ethnicities	375

Over 45 countries are represented at Butte College. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Japan, Brazil, and India.

Online Learning at Butte College

In 2020-2021, 7,637 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 45th most popular in California for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Butte College

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Butte College was 3.6%. This is the #1,589 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Butte College 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.