Queensborough Community College Overview

Located in Bayside, New York, Queensborough Community College is a public institution. The location of the school is great for students who enjoy the amenities of city life.

What Is Queensborough Community College Known For?

• The 1% student loan default rate at QCC 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 QCC is the associate's degree.
• In <nil>, 55% of the faculty were full-time.
• After graduation, QCC bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $43,346 a year. That's about 6% more than their peers at other schools.

Where Is Queensborough Community College?

Contact details for QCC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	222-05 56Th Ave, Bayside, NY 11364-1497
Phone:	718-631-6262
Website:	www.qcc.cuny.edu

How Do I Get Into QCC?

You can apply to QCC online at: www2.cuny.edu/admissions/undergraduate/apply/

Queensborough Community 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 Queensborough Community College?

Student Loan Debt

While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At QCC, approximately 2% of students took out student loans averaging $5,057 a year. That adds up to $20,228 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at QCC is 1.2%. 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.

Queensborough Community College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 10,989 undergraduate students at QCC, with 6,116 being full-time and 4,873 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 6,116 full-time undergraduates at QCC, 47% are male and 53% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	1,587
Black or African American	1,323
Hispanic or Latino	2,001
White	535
International Students	390
Other Races/Ethnicities	280

Online Learning at Queensborough Community College

In 2020-2021, 8,931 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

Online Growth Rankings of QCC

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Queensborough Community College was 27,972.1%. This is the #13 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at QCC 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.