Hostos Community College Overview

Hostos Community College is a public institution located in Bronx, New York. Bronx is a great location for students who prefer city over country life.

What Is Hostos Community College Known For?

• The student loan default rate at Hostos is 2%, 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.
• Although it may not be available for every major, the associate's degree is the highest award a student can attain at Hostos.
• For the <nil> academic year, 41% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Hostos Community College?

Contact details for Hostos are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	500 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451
Phone:	718-518-4444
Website:	www.hostos.cuny.edu

How Do I Get Into Hostos?

You can apply to Hostos online at: https://www.cuny.edu/admissions/apply-to-cuny/

Since Hostos Community College has an open admissions policy, you should not have any trouble getting into the school as long as you have a high school diploma or the equivalent.

Can I Afford Hostos Community 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 Hostos, approximately 3% of students took out student loans averaging $4,464 a year. That adds up to $17,856 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Hostos is 2.1%. 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.

Hostos Community College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 5,441 undergraduate students at Hostos, with 2,656 being full-time and 2,785 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 2,656 full-time undergraduates at Hostos, 34% are male and 66% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	85
Black or African American	717
Hispanic or Latino	1,644
White	61
International Students	106
Other Races/Ethnicities	43

Online Learning at Hostos Community College

In 2020-2021, 5,207 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 42nd most popular in New York for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Hostos

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Hostos Community College was 2,362.6%. This is the #77 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Hostos 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.