Hillsborough Community College Overview

Hillsborough Community College is a public institution situated in Tampa, Florida. The location of HCC is great for students who prefer living in an urban area.

What Is Hillsborough Community College Known For?

• Students at HCC have an easier time paying back their loans. The school's student loan default rate is only 4%, compared to the national rate of 10.1%.
• The bachelor's degree is the highest award offered at HCC.
• For the <nil> academic year, 39% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Hillsborough Community College?

Contact details for HCC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	39 Columbia Drive, Tampa, FL 33606-3584
Phone:	813-253-7000
Website:	www.hccfl.edu

How Do I Get Into HCC?

You can apply to HCC online at: https://www.hccfl.edu/admissions/apply-online

Since Hillsborough 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 Hillsborough 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 HCC, approximately 56% of students took out student loans averaging $5,059 a year. That adds up to $20,236 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at HCC is 3.5%. 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.

Hillsborough Community College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 19,198 undergraduate students at HCC, with 8,652 being full-time and 10,546 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 8,652 full-time undergraduates at HCC, 47% are male and 53% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	313
Black or African American	1,440
Hispanic or Latino	3,157
White	2,880
International Students	259
Other Races/Ethnicities	603

Over 86 countries are represented at HCC. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Brazil, Vietnam, and Qatar.

Online Learning at Hillsborough Community College

In 2020-2021, 14,985 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 8th most popular in Florida for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of HCC

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Hillsborough Community College was 55.9%. This is the #561 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at HCC 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.