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Mountain Empire Community College is a public institution situated in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Big Stone Gap is a good match for students who enjoy small-town life.

Where Is Mountain Empire Community College?

Contact details for MECC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	3441 Mountain Empire Road, Big Stone Gap, VA 24219
Phone:	276-523-2400
Website:	www.mecc.edu

Can I Afford MECC?

For the <nil> academic year, part-time MECC students paid $154 per credit hour if they lived in-state. Out-of-state students paid $331 per credit hour. The costs for full-time students are given in the table below.

	In State	Out of State
Tuition	$4,620	$9,918
Fees	$105	$810
Books and Supplies	$1,500	$1,500

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 MECC, approximately 1% of students took out student loans averaging $3,006 a year. That adds up to $12,024 over four years for those students.

Mountain Empire Community College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 2,079 undergraduate students at MECC, with 899 being full-time and 1,180 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 899 full-time undergraduates at MECC, 38% are male and 62% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	3
Black or African American	13
Hispanic or Latino	12
White	828
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	43

Online Learning at Mountain Empire Community College

In 2020-2021, 1,538 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 9th most popular in Virginia for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of MECC

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Mountain Empire Community College was 31.1%. This is the #743 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at MECC 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.