With the U.S. community–college industry undergoing major changes — such as the prospect of a free associate’s degree and 22 states authorizing their community colleges to offer bachelor’s degree programs — the personal-finance website WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of 2016’s Best & Worst Community Colleges then drew upon its results to identify the States with the Best & Worst Community College Systems.
To help students weigh their community–college prospects, WalletHub’s analysts compared 821 schools across 12 key metrics. WalletHub’s data set ranges from the cost of in-state tuition and fees to student-faculty ratio to graduation rate.
| States with the Best Community College Systems | |||||
| 1 | South Dakota | 11 | Georgia | ||
| 2 | Alaska | 12 | New Mexico | ||
| 3 | North Dakota | 13 | Nebraska | ||
| 4 | Florida | 14 | California | ||
| 5 | Montana | 15 | Iowa | ||
| 6 | Wyoming | 16 | Arizona | ||
| 7 | Washington | 17 | Arkansas | ||
| 8 | Wisconsin | 18 | Mississippi | ||
| 9 | Connecticut | 19 | New York | ||
| 10 | New Hampshire | 20 | Maine | ||
Read the full reports:
- Individual School Rankings: https://wallethub.com/edu/
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