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Georgia Highlands College is a public institution situated in Rome, Georgia. GHC is located in the countryside, which is perfect for students who enjoy a rural lifestyle.

Where Is Georgia Highlands College?

Contact details for GHC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	3175 Cedartown Highway, S.E., Rome, GA 30161-3897
Phone:	800-332-2406
Website:	www.highlands.edu

Can I Afford GHC?

For the <nil> academic year, part-time GHC students paid $95 per credit hour if they lived in-state. Out-of-state students paid $360 per credit hour. The costs for full-time students are given in the table below.

	In State	Out of State
Tuition	$2,280	$8,632
Fees	$664	$664
Books and Supplies	$1,200	$1,200

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At GHC, approximately 12% of students took out student loans averaging $5,078 a year. That adds up to $20,312 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at GHC is 3.0%. 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.

Georgia Highlands College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 5,240 undergraduate students at GHC, with 2,042 being full-time and 3,198 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 2,042 full-time undergraduates at GHC, 39% are male and 61% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Georgia Highlands College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	33
Black or African American	337
Hispanic or Latino	360
White	1,188
International Students	26
Other Races/Ethnicities	98

Geographic Diversity

Georgia students aren't the only ones who study at Georgia Highlands College. At this time, 12 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 8 countries are represented at GHC. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Canada, Ireland, and Italy.

Online Learning at Georgia Highlands College

In 2020-2021, 3,630 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 24th most popular in Georgia for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of GHC

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Georgia Highlands College was 53.8%. This is the #534 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at GHC 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.