Mid-Plains Community College Overview

Located in North Platte, Nebraska, Mid-Plains Community College is a public institution. North Platte is a great place for students who enjoy small town life.

What Is Mid-Plains Community College Known For?

• Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at Mid-Plains Community College since the student to facuty ratio is 8 to 1.
• The student loan default rate at Mid-Plains Community College is 2%, which is significantly lower than the national rate of 10.1%. That's great news for students who are worrying about paying off their student loans.
• The associate's degree is the highest award offered at Mid-Plains Community College.
• For the <nil> academic year, 23% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Mid-Plains Community College?

Contact details for Mid-Plains Community College are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	601 West State Farm Road, North Platte, NE 69101
Phone:	800-658-4308
Website:	www.mpcc.edu

How Do I Get Into Mid-Plains Community College?

You can apply to Mid-Plains Community College online at: https://campus.mpcc.edu/ICS/Admissions/Apply_Online.jnz

Since Mid-Plains 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 Mid-Plains 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 Mid-Plains Community College, approximately 26% of students took out student loans averaging $4,935 a year. That adds up to $19,740 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Mid-Plains Community College is 1.8%. 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.

Mid-Plains Community College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 2,101 undergraduate students at Mid-Plains Community College, with 669 being full-time and 1,432 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 669 full-time undergraduates at Mid-Plains Community College, 46% are male and 54% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	3
Black or African American	20
Hispanic or Latino	81
White	500
International Students	41
Other Races/Ethnicities	24

Over 14 countries are represented at Mid-Plains Community College. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Canada, Australia, and Nigeria.

Online Learning at Mid-Plains Community College

In 2020-2021, 1,158 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Mid-Plains Community College has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 15th most popular in Nebraska for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Mid-Plains Community College

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Mid-Plains Community College was 26.1%. This is the #945 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Mid-Plains 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.