Northern Virginia Community College Overview

Northern Virginia Community College is a public institution located in Annandale, Virginia. Annandale is considered a suburb and offers tranquility and safety near the excitement of a city center.

What Is Northern Virginia Community College Known For?

• The 2% student loan default rate at Northern Virginia 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.
• Although it may not be available for every major, the associate's degree is the highest award a student can attain at Northern Virginia Community College.
• In <nil>, 35% of the faculty were full-time.
• After graduation, Northern Virginia Community College bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $50,387 a year. That's about 23% more than their peers at other schools.

Where Is Northern Virginia Community College?

Contact details for Northern Virginia Community College are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	4001 Wakefield Chapel Rd, Annandale, VA 22003-3796
Phone:	703-323-3000
Website:	www.nvcc.edu

How Do I Get Into Northern Virginia Community College?

You can apply to Northern Virginia Community College online at: https://www.nvcc.edu/admissions/apply/index.html

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

Can I Afford Northern Virginia 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 Northern Virginia Community College, approximately 18% of students took out student loans averaging $4,811 a year. That adds up to $19,244 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Northern Virginia Community College is 2.4%. 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.

Northern Virginia Community College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 49,560 undergraduate students at Northern Virginia Community College, with 13,939 being full-time and 35,621 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 13,939 full-time undergraduates at Northern Virginia Community College, 51% are male and 49% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	2,439
Black or African American	2,088
Hispanic or Latino	3,456
White	4,093
International Students	507
Other Races/Ethnicities	1,356

Over 137 countries are represented at Northern Virginia Community College. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Vietnam, South Korea, and China.

Online Learning at Northern Virginia Community College

In 2020-2021, 31,227 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 4th 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 Northern Virginia Community College

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Northern Virginia Community College was 146.5%. This is the #343 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Northern Virginia 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.