Salina Area Technical College Overview

Salina Area Technical College is a public institution located in Salina, Kansas. Salina is a great place for students who enjoy small town life.

What Is Salina Area Technical College Known For?

• The 2% student loan default rate at Salina Tech 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 associate's degree is the highest award offered at Salina Tech.
• In <nil>, 53% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Salina Area Technical College?

Contact details for Salina Tech are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	2562 Centennial Road, Salina, KS 67401
Phone:	785-309-3100
Website:	www.salinatech.edu

How Do I Get Into Salina Tech?

You can apply to Salina Tech online at: fs30.formsite.com/SalinaTech/SATCApplication/index.html

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

Can I Afford Salina Area Technical College?

Student Loan Debt

While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At Salina Tech, approximately 39% of students took out student loans averaging $4,967 a year. That adds up to $19,868 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Salina Tech 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.

Salina Area Technical College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 852 undergraduate students at Salina Tech, with 234 being full-time and 618 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 234 full-time undergraduates at Salina Tech, 56% are male and 44% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Salina Area Technical College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	4
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	38
White	181
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Online Learning at Salina Area Technical College

In 2020-2021, 243 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 39th most popular in Kansas for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Salina Tech

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Salina Area Technical College was 117.6%. This is the #381 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Salina Tech 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.