Southwestern Illinois College Overview

Located in Belleville, Illinois, Southwestern Illinois College is a public institution. Belleville is considered a suburb and offers tranquility and safety near the excitement of a city center.

What Is Southwestern Illinois College Known For?

• The associate's degree is the highest award offered at SWIC.
• For the <nil> academic year, 27% of the faculty were full-time.

Where Is Southwestern Illinois College?

Contact details for SWIC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	2500 Carlyle Ave, Belleville, IL 62221-5899
Phone:	618-235-2700
Website:	www.swic.edu

How Do I Get Into SWIC?

You can apply to SWIC online at: https://www.swic.edu/apply

Southwestern Illinois 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 Southwestern Illinois 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 SWIC, approximately 10% of students took out student loans averaging $3,331 a year. That adds up to $13,324 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at SWIC is 5.4%. 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.

Southwestern Illinois College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 7,213 undergraduate students at SWIC, with 3,011 being full-time and 4,202 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 3,011 full-time undergraduates at SWIC, 47% are male and 53% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Southwestern Illinois College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	40
Black or African American	505
Hispanic or Latino	201
White	1,944
International Students	24
Other Races/Ethnicities	297

Over 6 countries are represented at SWIC. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Brazil, Colombia, and Italy.

Online Learning at Southwestern Illinois College

In 2020-2021, 3,210 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 16th most popular in Illinois for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of SWIC

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Southwestern Illinois College was 31.6%. This is the #858 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at SWIC 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.