Otero Junior College Overview

Located in La Junta, Colorado, Otero Junior College is a public institution. The location of Otero JC is a good match for students who are interested in living in a college town while they pursue their degree.

What Is Otero Junior College Known For?

• The student loan default rate at Otero JC is 3%, 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 Otero JC.
• In <nil>, 100% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Otero Junior College?

Contact details for Otero JC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1802 Colorado Ave, La Junta, CO 81050
Phone:	719-384-6885
Website:	www.otero.edu

How Do I Get Into Otero JC?

You can apply to Otero JC online at: www.otero.edu/futurestudents/admissions/apply-ojc.aspx

Otero Junior College has an open admissions policy. This means that the school accepts all applicants assuming that they meet very basic requirements, such as having a high school diploma or equivalent.

Can I Afford Otero Junior 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 Otero JC, approximately 29% of students took out student loans averaging $5,410 a year. That adds up to $21,640 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Otero JC is 3.3%. 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.

Otero Junior College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,151 undergraduate students at Otero JC, with 501 being full-time and 650 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 501 full-time undergraduates at Otero JC, 51% are male and 49% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Otero Junior College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	1
Black or African American	52
Hispanic or Latino	178
White	190
International Students	51
Other Races/Ethnicities	29

Over 22 countries are represented at Otero JC. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Canada, United Kingdom, and Japan.

Online Learning at Otero Junior College

In 2020-2021, 365 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

Online Growth Rankings of Otero JC

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Otero Junior College was 8.1%. This is the #1,458 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Otero JC 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.