SouthwestUrbanPublic4-yearHumanities

Odessa College

Accessible admissions with broad enrollment.

Odessa, TX4,654 students
Acceptance Rate
100%
open admission
Median SAT
—
Net Price After Aid
$9.9k
Sticker $5.9k
Graduation Rate
28%
6-year, full-time

Odessa College is a public institution in Odessa, TX with an acceptance rate of 100% and 4,654 students. The average net price after financial aid is $9,899 per year.

About Odessa College

A public 4-year urban university in Odessa, TX.

Odessa College campus
Campus · Odessa

Odessa College is a college in Odessa, TX. It enrolls roughly 4,654 students. The most recent acceptance rate is 100%.

SouthwestUrbanPublic4-yearHumanities
Acceptance Rate
100%
Open Admission
Total Enrollment
4,654
Medium
Retention
52%
First-years returning
Graduation Rate
28%
6-year, full-time

Your chances at this school

What admitted students look like here. Sign in to see how your own profile compares.

Acceptance Rate
100%
100 of every 100 applicants admitted
Your Chances
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Admitted Student GPA
—

Accessible admissions with broad enrollment.

What strengthens an application here

  1. Depth in one or two activities
    Sustained commitment, a leadership role, or a result in a few activities says more than a long list of memberships.

Your chances estimate is based on your academic profile and activities — it is a guide, not a guarantee of admission. Decisions weigh essays, recommendations, and fit factors that aren't in the data.

Admissions

What it actually takes to get into Odessa College. Test scores, GPA, application requirements, and deadlines.

Admitted student profile

Range shown is the middle 50%.

SAT
composite, 1600 scale
—
ACT
composite, 36 scale
1519
17
average
GPA
weighted, 4.5 max
—

This school doesn't require test scores, so these ranges reflect only students who chose to submit — applicants who submit tend to have higher scores. The real admitted range likely runs lower. Don't rule yourself out on scores alone.

Application requirements

  • Test-blind

Cost & financial aid

Published costs can be misleading. Here's what families actually pay at Odessa College after grants and scholarships.

Sticker price
—
Tuition $5,888
Average net price after aid
$9,899
88% of students receive financial aid

Net price by family income

Average amount paid out of pocket — tuition, fees, and room & board minus all grant aid.

$0 – $30,000
$9,124
$30,001 – $48,000
$9,356
$48,001 – $75,000
$10,320
$75,001 – $110,000
$10,256
$110,001 +
$8,867

Net price represents the average cost after grants and scholarships for students receiving federal financial aid.

Pell Grant Recipients
22%
Need-based federal grant
Take Federal Loans
2%
Avg loan $6,000 / year
Avg Grant Aid
—
Per receiving student / year

Academics & majors

Where students at Odessa College concentrate, and how the classroom experience scales.

Student : Faculty
29:1
Class-size proxy
Primary Focus
Humanities
22% of degrees awarded
Retention
52%
First-years returning
A breakdown of the top majors by share of degrees awarded ships once we finish backfilling per-school program data.

Student body

Who attends Odessa College. Enrollment, diversity, and where students come from.

Race & ethnicity

  • White21%
  • Asian1%
  • Hispanic70%
  • Black6%
  • International2%

Gender

  • Female65%
  • Male35%
International
2%
Of total enrollment
Live on Campus
—
Undergraduate residential rate
Total Enrollment
4,654

Outcomes after graduation

What Odessa College graduates do next — and what they earn.

Median Earnings
$42.0k
10 years after enrollment
Employed at 2 yrs
—
Working or in grad school
Pursue Grad School
—
Within 5 years
Graduation Rate
28%
6-year, full-time

Is it worth it?

Earnings, debt, and price side by side — context for the cost-vs-payoff question, not a ranking.

Median earnings
$42.0k
10 yrs after entry
Typical debt
$6.0k
median, borrowers only
Avg. net price
$9.9k/yr
after aid
  • These numbers reflect who enrolls, not the value the school adds. A college's earnings can look high simply because it admits wealthier, higher-scoring students — not because of what happens there.
  • Earnings vary far more by major and career path than by school. A school-wide median blends engineers and artists into one number that may match no real student.
  • Federal earnings and debt figures cover only students who received federal aid, so they leave out full-pay students and can skew the picture.
  • Net price is an average across aided students and debt is the median for borrowers only — many students borrow nothing. Your actual cost depends on your own aid package.

What this means

$42k is below the national bachelor's-graduate median at the 10-year mark, and a 28% graduation rate is below the national average.

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