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Located in El Dorado, Arkansas, South Arkansas Community College is a public institution. The surrounding location of El Dorado is ideal for students who enjoy the charms of a college town.

Where Is South Arkansas Community College?

Contact details for SouthArk are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	300 S West Ave, El Dorado, AR 71731-7010
Phone:	870-862-8131
Website:	www.southark.edu

Can I Afford SouthArk?

For the <nil> academic year, part-time SouthArk students paid $97 per credit hour if they lived in-state. Out-of-state students paid $172 per credit hour. The costs for full-time students are given in the table below.

	In State	Out of State
Tuition	$2,328	$4,128
Fees	$996	$996
Books and Supplies	$1,635	$1,635

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 SouthArk, approximately 9% of students took out student loans averaging $3,588 a year. That adds up to $14,352 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at SouthArk is 3.7%. 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.

South Arkansas Community College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,132 undergraduate students at SouthArk, with 450 being full-time and 682 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 450 full-time undergraduates at SouthArk, 33% are male and 67% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of South Arkansas Community College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	2
Black or African American	158
Hispanic or Latino	30
White	239
International Students	8
Other Races/Ethnicities	13

Over 3 countries are represented at SouthArk. The most popular countries sending students to the school are India, Pakistan, and Nepal.

Online Learning at South Arkansas Community College

In 2020-2021, 670 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 8th most popular in Arkansas for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of SouthArk

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at South Arkansas Community College was 11.5%. This is the #1,172 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at SouthArk 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.