Fast Facts

• Fall 2012 enrollment – 5,119
• Gender – 35% male, 65% female
• Full-time – 2,713 full-time (53%)
• Part-time – 2,406 part-time (47%) 
• Average student age – 25
• Residency – 5,033 from Missouri, 71 out of state, 15 international
• Missouri counties represented – 72 of 115
• Faculty – 69 full time, 307 part-time
• Staff – 112 full-time, 38 part-time
• Student/faculty ratio – 14.1:1 (fall 2012)
• Alumni – more than 12,000 graduates
• Lifelong Learning, GED, ESL, and Business and Technology participants – more than 4,100 (2010-2011)
• Mascot – Roadrunner
• Accreditation – by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools since 1976

• SFCC distributed more than $15 million in scholarships, grants, loans, and work study funds to students for the 2011-2012 academic year. 

  96 percent of full-time, first year students received financial aid; 78 percent of all students received financial aid. 

  More than 468 students received A+ state funding during the 2010-2011 academic year.

  Average aid package of full-time, first-year students was $6,095, and the average for all students was $6,005.

• A total of 572 online classes were offered in the 2010-2011 academic year. Classes are offered in such disciplines as education, English, literature, math, healthcare, psychology, music, criminal justice, and computer-aided drafting. Prospective students enroll through Student Services and complete all coursework online. Tuition is the same for online classes as for on-site classes.  
   

• Ninety percent of SFCC technical program graduates found employment, continued their education, or joined the military for the 2009-20010 academic year.

• With funding from federal grants, SFCC has implemented two TRiO programs. Students in TRiO for Educational Preparation and Success helps low-income, disabled, or first-generation students enter and finish college with four-year degrees. Upward Bound, in partnership with Smith-Cotton High School, prepares low-income, first-generation students in grades 9-12 to be successful college students. It also has a six-week summer component that is held on SFCC's main campus.

• In addition to its Sedalia campus, extended campus sites are located in Boonville, Clinton, Osage Beach, Warsaw, and Whiteman Air Force Base in Knob Noster.

• SFCC delivers dual credit courses to 573 high school juniors and seniors in 18 locations throughout the 14-county service area in such locations as California High School; Camdenton High School; Clinton High School; Cole Camp High School; Concordia High School; Eldon High School; La Monte High School; Leeton High School; Lincoln High School; Morgan County R-I, Stover; Northwest High School, Hughesville; Sacred Heart High School, Sedalia; School of the Osage, Kaiser; Sherwood High School, Creighton; Smith-Cotton High School, Sedalia; Smithton High School; Sweet Springs High School; and Warrensburg High School.

   Data sources–Institutional Research and Planning, Financial Aid Office and Marketing and Communications, November 2012