Kauai Community College Overview

Kauai Community College is a public institution located in Lihue, Hawaii. Lihue is a great place for students who enjoy small town life.

What Is Kauai Community College Known For?

• The associate's degree is the highest award offered at Kauai CC.
• For the <nil> academic year, 67% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Kauai Community College?

Contact details for Kauai CC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	3-1901 Kaumualii Highway, Lihue, HI 96766-9500
Phone:	808-245-8311
Website:	www.kauai.hawaii.edu

How Do I Get Into Kauai CC?

You can apply to Kauai CC online at: https://uhcc2022.liaisoncas.com/applicant-ux/#/login

As long as you submit the requested materials to Kauai Community College when applying, you shouldn't have to worry about getting in since the school has an open admissions policy.

Can I Afford Kauai 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 Kauai CC, approximately 1% of students took out student loans averaging $3,550 a year. That adds up to $14,200 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Kauai CC is 7.2%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.

Kauai Community College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,343 undergraduate students at Kauai CC, with 246 being full-time and 1,097 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 246 full-time undergraduates at Kauai CC, 48% are male and 52% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	71
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	40
White	31
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	98

Over 3 countries are represented at Kauai CC. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Japan, Australia, and Canada.

Online Learning at Kauai Community College

In 2020-2021, 970 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 7th most popular in Hawaii for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Kauai CC

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Kauai Community College was 174.6%. This is the #304 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Kauai CC 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.