Lord Fairfax Community College Overview

Located in Middletown, Virginia, Lord Fairfax Community College is a public institution. The rural area surrounding Lord Fairfax Community College is great for students who love a peaceful atmosphere.

What Is Lord Fairfax Community College Known For?

• The 4% student loan default rate at Lord Fairfax Community College 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 Lord Fairfax Community College is the associate's degree.
• For the <nil> academic year, 22% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Lord Fairfax Community College?

Contact details for Lord Fairfax Community College are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	173 Skirmisher Lane, Middletown, VA 22645
Phone:	800-906-5322
Website:	www.laurelridge.edu

How Do I Get Into Lord Fairfax Community College?

You can apply to Lord Fairfax Community College online at: https://www.apply.vccs.edu/applications/vccs/apply.html?application_id=4087

Lord Fairfax 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 Lord Fairfax 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 Lord Fairfax Community College, approximately 7% of students took out student loans averaging $4,429 a year. That adds up to $17,716 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Lord Fairfax Community College is 4.2%. 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.

Lord Fairfax Community College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 5,862 undergraduate students at Lord Fairfax Community College, with 1,713 being full-time and 4,149 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,713 full-time undergraduates at Lord Fairfax Community College, 42% are male and 58% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	43
Black or African American	68
Hispanic or Latino	226
White	1,181
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	191

Over 13 countries are represented at Lord Fairfax Community College. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Thailand, South Korea, and India.

Online Learning at Lord Fairfax Community College

In 2020-2021, 2,942 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Lord Fairfax Community College has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 12th most popular in Virginia for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Lord Fairfax Community College

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Lord Fairfax Community College was 29.3%. This is the #886 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Lord Fairfax Community College 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.