Great LakesRuralPublic4-yearHumanities

Sauk Valley Community College

Accessible admissions with broad enrollment.

Dixon, IL1,433 students
Acceptance Rate
100%
open admission
Median SAT
1,025
Net Price After Aid
$8.4k
Sticker $12.8k
Graduation Rate
47%
6-year, full-time

Sauk Valley Community College is a public institution in Dixon, IL with an acceptance rate of 100% and 1,433 students. The average net price after financial aid is $8,388 per year.

About Sauk Valley Community College

A public 4-year rural university in Dixon, IL.

Sauk Valley Community College campus
Campus · Dixon

Sauk Valley Community College is a college in Dixon, IL. It enrolls roughly 1,433 students. The most recent acceptance rate is 100%.

Great LakesRuralPublic4-yearHumanities
Acceptance Rate
100%
Open Admission
Total Enrollment
1,433
Small
Retention
72%
First-years returning
Graduation Rate
47%
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
3.25
Average across admitted students

Accessible admissions with broad enrollment.

What strengthens an application here

  1. A GPA near 3.25 or higher
    This is the average across admitted students.
  2. 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 Sauk Valley Community College. Test scores, GPA, application requirements, and deadlines.

Admitted student profile

Range shown is the middle 50%.

SAT
composite, 1600 scale
1,025
average
ACT
composite, 36 scale
1624
20
average
GPA
weighted, 4.5 max
3.25
average

Application requirements

  • Tests sometimes required
  • No application fee
  • Accepts fee waiver

Deadlines (2026-27)

Regular Decision
Rolling

Source: Common App 2026-27 requirements grid (verified Aug 2026). Always confirm on the college's own site.

Cost & financial aid

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

Sticker price
—
Tuition $12,840
Average net price after aid
$8,388
After grants and scholarships

Net price by family income

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

$0 – $30,000
$6,156
$30,001 – $48,000
$6,982
$48,001 – $75,000
$9,548
$75,001 – $110,000
$13,018
$110,001 +
$13,854

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

Pell Grant Recipients
33%
Need-based federal grant
Take Federal Loans
7%
Avg loan $5,500 / year
Avg Grant Aid
—
Per receiving student / year

Academics & majors

Where students at Sauk Valley Community College concentrate, and how the classroom experience scales.

Student : Faculty
14:1
Class-size proxy
Primary Focus
Humanities
38% of degrees awarded
Retention
72%
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 Sauk Valley Community College. Enrollment, diversity, and where students come from.

Race & ethnicity

  • White24%
  • Asian6%
  • Hispanic6%
  • Black17%
  • Two or more races14%
  • International33%

Gender

  • Female62%
  • Male38%
International
100%
Of total enrollment
Live on Campus
—
Undergraduate residential rate
Total Enrollment
1,433

Outcomes after graduation

What Sauk Valley Community College graduates do next — and what they earn.

Median Earnings
$40.5k
10 years after enrollment
Employed at 2 yrs
—
Working or in grad school
Pursue Grad School
—
Within 5 years
Graduation Rate
47%
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
$40.5k
10 yrs after entry
Typical debt
$5.5k
median, borrowers only
Avg. net price
$8.4k/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

$40k is below the national bachelor's-graduate median at the 10-year mark, and a 47% graduation rate is below the national average.

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