Solano Community College Overview

Solano Community College is a public institution situated in Fairfield, California. Fairfield is a good match for students who enjoy the safety and convenience of the suburbs.

What Is Solano Community College Known For?

• The 4% student loan default rate at Solano 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 bachelor's degree is the highest award offered at Solano College.
• In <nil>, 40% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Solano Community College?

Contact details for Solano College are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	4000 Suisun Valley Rd, Fairfield, CA 94534-3197
Phone:	707-864-7000
Website:	www.solano.edu

How Do I Get Into Solano College?

You can apply to Solano College online at: https://www.opencccapply.net/gateway/apply?cccMisCode=281

Solano Community 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 Solano Community College?

The student loan default rate at Solano College is 3.5%. 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.

Solano Community College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 8,105 undergraduate students at Solano College, with 2,436 being full-time and 5,669 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 2,436 full-time undergraduates at Solano College, 42% are male and 58% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	418
Black or African American	249
Hispanic or Latino	859
White	584
International Students	11
Other Races/Ethnicities	315

Over 25 countries are represented at Solano College. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Philippines, China, and South Korea.

Online Learning at Solano Community College

In 2020-2021, 7,710 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 86th most popular in California for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Solano College

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Solano Community College was 160.1%. This is the #321 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Solano 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.