Riverland Community College Overview

Riverland Community College is a public institution situated in Austin, Minnesota. The surrounding location of Austin is ideal for students who enjoy the charms of a college town.

What Is Riverland Community College Known For?

• The 3% student loan default rate at Riverland 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 undergraduate certificate is the highest award offered at Riverland Community College.
• For the <nil> academic year, 47% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Riverland Community College?

Contact details for Riverland Community College are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1900 8Th Ave Nw, Austin, MN 55912-1473
Phone:	507-433-0600
Website:	www.riverland.edu

How Do I Get Into Riverland Community College?

You can apply to Riverland Community College online at: https://www.riverland.edu/admissions/apply-to-riverland/

Riverland 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 Riverland 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 Riverland Community College, approximately 29% of students took out student loans averaging $5,813 a year. That adds up to $23,252 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Riverland Community College is 3.1%. 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.

Riverland Community College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 3,276 undergraduate students at Riverland Community College, with 1,094 being full-time and 2,182 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,094 full-time undergraduates at Riverland Community College, 49% are male and 51% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	48
Black or African American	88
Hispanic or Latino	174
White	713
International Students	15
Other Races/Ethnicities	56

Over 25 countries are represented at Riverland Community College. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Brazil, Japan, and Netherlands.

Online Learning at Riverland Community College

In 2020-2021, 1,399 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 23rd most popular in Minnesota for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Riverland Community College

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Riverland Community College was 7.8%. This is the #1,468 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Riverland 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.