SOLANO COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Fall
2004
OFFICE OF RESEARCH & PLANNING
Student Profile
This report contains data compiled primarily from the California Postsecondary Education Commission at
http://cpec.ca.gov, the California Community College’s Chancellor’s Office at www.cccco.edu, and the Solano
Community College databases. The data are from the Fall 2004 semester, where enrollment was 11,550.
Ethnicity
Asian
6%
Black
15%
White
44%
Filipino
12%
Unknown
4%
Pacific Islander
2%
Solano Community College serves a
student body composed of many
different ethnicities. Just over two-fifths
of the student body is White while the
other large ethnic groups are Black,
Filipino, and Hispanic – together
accounting for another two-fifths of the
population.
Hispanic
14%
Other
2%
Age Distribution
Native American
1%
50+
7%
40-49
11%
The largest age groups attending Solano
Community College are those students
traditionally classified as “college-age,” in the
categories 19 or less and 20-24, making up
almost 60% of the current student body. The
remaining 40% of the student body is nearly
evenly divided amount the other age categories.
19 or Less
29%
35-39
6%
30-34
7%
25-29
11%
20-24
29%
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Gender
Sixty percent of the student
body is female and forty
percent is male. This
distribution has remained
fairly steady over the last six
years and reflects regional,
statewide and national trends.
Male
40%
Day/Evening Status
Female
60%
Unknown
3%
Evening
33%
Online Course
Offerings
120
100
The number of online
courses being offered
has increased in both
number and popularity
over the last five years.
The histogram shows
the growth in the
online course offerings
80
Day
64%
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
60
40
20
0
Solano Community College offers
courses both during the day and
evenings. Almost twice as many
students are enrolled in daytime
courses than in evening courses.
O n lin e Cou rses
Enrollment Status
Returning Transfer
16%
Not Applicable
5%
First-time Transfer
10%
First-time Student
15%
Continuing Student
54%
Most of the students at Solano
Community College are continuing
students; first-time students and
returning transfer students are tied
for the second largest group.
Academic Level
The majority (56%) of students at
Solano Community College are
freshman-level high school
graduates. Sixteen percent of
students are sophomore-level
high school graduates. Students
with either associate or bachelors
degrees make up 13% of
enrollments.
Special Admit - K-12
5%
Sophmore No HS Grad
0%
AA Degree
6%
BA Degree
7%
Sophmore HS Graduate
16%
Freshman & c/ Adult School
0%
Sophmore & c/ Adult School
0%
Other No HS Grad =60 Units
0%
Other HS Grad =60 Units
8%
Freshman No HS Graduate
2%
Units Enrolled
Freshman HS Graduate
56%
Non- Credit
0%
15+
12%
0.1- 2.9
6%
3.0-5.9
30%
12.0-14.9
21%
9.0-11.9
14%
Two-thirds of the students
enrolled at Solano Community
College are part-time (less than
12 units) students. The majority
of these (30% of the total
population) take 3.0-5.9 units,
normally representing a single
class.
6.0-8.9
17%
Financial Aid Received
4,500
4,050
4,000
3,500
In the 2003-2004 school year,
about 36% of the students received
a form of financial aid. [Note: In
the chart, counts are duplicated
across types.]
3,000
2,754
2,500
2,000
1,500
1,000
806
500
108
0
Enrollment Fee Waiver
Grants
Loans
Work Study
Top Seven Educational Goals of Full-Time Students
Ninety three percent of the
4,436 full-time students in
Fall 04 are represented in
the top seven goals as
shown. Most (70%)
students intend to transfer
with or without a degree.
Vocational Degree
3%
Undeclared
15%
Career Exploration
3%
Degree, no transfer
5%
Transfer with Degree
57%
Transfer, no Degree
13%
2004 High School Graduates
Job Skills, new job
4%
Solano County high schools provide many of the
students who enroll at Solano Community
College. Some of these students are recent
graduates, receiving their diplomas in the spring
and enrolling at SCC in the fall. In 2004, almost
20% (826) of these graduates enrolled at Solano
College the following term. The chart shows Fall
2004 enrollments of recent graduates at Solano
from those schools that make up more than two
percent of all recent graduates enrolled.
Vanden
10%
Jesse Bethel
5%
Vacaville
15%
Angelo Rodriquez
9%
Hogan
5%
Armijo
10%
Top Ten Majors
Accounting
7%
Business, General (Transfer)
18%
Biology
5%
Criminal Justice, Law
Enforcement
7%
Dixon
3%
Benicia
6%
Registered Nursing
14%
Computer Programming
14%
Psychology
8%
Will C Wood
13%
Vallejo
4%
Fairfield
17%
Fire Technology
5%
Contra Costa Co.
3%
Liberal Arts
12%
Early Childhood Education
10%
The top ten majors, not including
undeclared, are distributed as
shown. Registered Nursing and
General Business (Transfer) have
remained the top two most popular
majors for the last four years.