Glendale Community College Overview

Located in Glendale, California, Glendale Community College is a public institution. The surrounding area of the school is a good match for students who enjoy city life.

What Is Glendale Community College Known For?

• Students at GCC have an easier time paying back their loans. The school's student loan default rate is only 2%, compared to the national rate of 10.1%.
• The highest award offered at GCC is the undergraduate certificate.
• For the <nil> academic year, 31% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Glendale Community College?

Contact details for GCC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1500 N Verdugo Rd, Glendale, CA 91208-2894
Phone:	818-240-1000
Website:	www.glendale.edu

How Do I Get Into GCC?

You can apply to GCC online at: https://www.glendale.edu/apply/new-or-returning-students

Glendale Community College has an open admissions policy, so you don't have to worry about getting into the school if you have a high school diploma or its equivalent.

Can I Afford Glendale Community 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 GCC, approximately 1% of students took out student loans averaging $3,707 a year. That adds up to $14,828 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at GCC is 1.6%. 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.

Glendale Community College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 11,398 undergraduate students at GCC, with 5,608 being full-time and 5,790 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 5,608 full-time undergraduates at GCC, 45% are male and 55% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	389
Black or African American	131
Hispanic or Latino	1,457
White	3,127
International Students	200
Other Races/Ethnicities	304

Over 70 countries are represented at GCC. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Japan, South Korea, and China.

Online Learning at Glendale Community College

In 2020-2021, 7,447 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

Online Growth Rankings of GCC

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Glendale Community College was 47.2%. This is the #688 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at GCC 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.