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Community college · Public

Front Range Community College

Westminster, CO3,738 online only

Front Range Community College is a public community college in Westminster, CO, with about 17,358 students on campus and 3,738 more studying only online.

Students on campus
17,358
plus 3,738 studying only online
Admission rate
Open
open enrollment
Net price a year
$13,031
tuition and fees $4,663; the net price adds housing and food
Graduation rate
35%
Earnings, 10 yrs later
$45,910
higher than at 63% of U.S. colleges
Getting in

How hard is it to get into Front Range Community College?

Open

anyone with a high school diploma can enroll

Test scores of admitted students

No SAT or ACT ranges reported. Front Range Community College is likely test-optional.

What it costs

The sticker price, and what families really pay

Sticker price: $21,526 a year

Before any grants · out-of-state tuition $17,263

Tuition & fees (in state) $4,663Books & supplies $1,460Other costs $15,403

After grants, the average family on aid pays $13,031.

Tuition and fees are $4,663 a year. The net price also counts housing, food and other costs at full price, so a student living at home pays less than it shows.

Your family’s price

Average net price after grants, by family income

$12,795

About $25,590 over 2 years · 41% off the sticker price

Under $30k$30–48k$48–75k$75–110kOver $110k
Outcomes

Do students finish, and does it pay off?

Graduate
35%
within 1½ times the normal program length
Come back for year two
100%
full-time first-year students
Earnings, 10 years later
$45,910
median, students on federal aid
Typical debt
$12,251
about $130 a month over 10 years

Debt vs. the paycheck

The typical loan payment as a share of a typical graduate’s monthly pay six years after starting

3.8%
0%10%: a common comfort line25%

$130 a month against about $3,379 a month in pay.

Paying back loans

Federal student loans, this college

43%

of borrowers paid down at least some of their loan within three years, more than at 45% of U.S. colleges.

Almost none defaulted within three years (payments on federal loans were paused from 2020 to 2023, so recent default rates are near zero everywhere).

Earnings by family background

Median earnings 10 years after starting, by family income at enrollment

Lower incomeunder $30k
$41k
Middle income$30–75k
$50k
Higher incomeover $75k
$51k
Majors

What students study, and what it pays

Share of degrees by field

Health professions 25%Liberal arts 13%Business 10%Mechanic & repair 8%Precision production 8%Computer science 8%Everything else 28%

Bachelor’s programs with the most graduates

And their graduates’ median earnings four years later (one year where that’s all that’s reported).

Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing15 graduates a year
—not reported
Geography and Cartography2 graduates a year
—not reported
Who goes there

The students

11,476 degree-seeking undergraduates.

By race and ethnicity

White 57%Hispanic 29%Black 2%Asian 4%Two or more 4%International 2%

Women and men

Women 60%Men 40%
22 : 1
students per teacher
17%
get Pell grants (lower income)
11%
take federal loans
21%
undergrads 25 or older
67%
study part time
The town around it

Living in Westminster

5% of Westminster’s 116,182 residents are enrolled in college. What the town is like, from TownRatings’ Westminster pages.

Westminster →
Nearby

Other colleges within 30 miles

Straight-line distances from Front Range Community College; colleges with 100 or more students on campus.

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Students, parents, alumni and the neighbors next door.

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Sources: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard (institution and field-of-study files) and IPEDS (Scorecard 06/10/2026 · IPEDS 2024 · fall 2023); town figures from the Census American Community Survey and NOAA climate normals. Graduation rates count first-time, full-time students; earnings and debt are for students who received federal aid. Distances are straight-line. Colleges are described, not graded (how TownRatings describes colleges). Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.