A recent national study published by WalletHub has ranked Ozarka College as the 51st best, or top 7.6% percent of all community colleges in the nation. WalletHub compared 670 community colleges in the United States on 17 key metrics ranging from the cost of in-state tuition and fees to student-faculty ratio."Across the board, community colleges are slowly stacking up against their traditional four-year counterparts. Schedule flexibility, rigorous coursework and smaller class sizes supply the majority of their appeal to first-time college entrants as well as to university students choosing to transfer to community colleges - an emerging trend that goes against the usual grain of transitioning from a two-year to a four-year institution, " said Richie Bernardo, author of 2015's Best & Worst Community Colleges.The statistics can be further broken down by cost and financing, classroom experience, education outcomes, and career outcomes. Josh Wilson, Ozarka College Associate Vice President of Institutional Research states, "By this methodology, Ozarka was ranked 15 of 670 on classroom experience. " Thus measured by the following criteria: Active and Collaborative Learning, Student Effort, Academic Challenge, Student-Faculty Interaction, Support for Learners, and Student-to-Faculty Ratio.Active and Collaborative Learning measures students' level of involvement in their own education and participation in team activities/projects, whereas Student Effort measures students' initiative to apply themselves to the learning process. Academic Challenge measures the complexity of courses and amount of work involved, then Student-Faculty Interaction measures the strength of communication and personal relationships between instructors and their students. Support for Learners measures the availability and effectiveness of school-provided support services for students' academic success, and Student-to-Faculty Ratio measures the number of students enrolled in a particular course. Ozarka College has an average ratio of only twelve students to one faculty.Ozarka College President, Dr. Richard Dawe commented, "it is uplifting to see such national recognition for our College. We pride ourselves on being a college that reacts quickly to student and regional workforce needs. Just because we are a small, rural college doesn't prevent us from being transformational and innovative in how we serve students and the communities of northern Arkansas. "![]()
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