Even though, over all, students’ payments for tuition and fees made up only about 15 percent of the revenue of two-year public colleges in 2014-15, seven such colleges relied on tuition for half or more of their revenue. They include Quincy College, a municipally affiliated institution with two campuses on the South Shore of Massachusetts, and Arapahoe Community College, which has three campuses near Denver.
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| 1. | Quincy College | $5,910 | $18,042,602 | 64.0% |
| 2. | Arapahoe Community College | $3,493 | $29,700,782 | 61.0% |
| 3. | Front Range Community College | $3,660 | $64,302,540 | 54.3% |
| 4. | Community College of Aurora | $3,702 | $19,590,367 | 52.9% |
| 5. | Community College of Vermont | $6,222 | $17,860,445 | 51.7% |
| 6. | Manchester Community College (N.H.) | $6,912 | $13,360,058 | 50.1% |
| 7. | Nashua Community College | $6,912 | $9,402,849 | 50.0% |
| 8. | Pikes Peak Community College | $3,536 | $42,759,692 | 47.1% |
| 9. | N.H. Technical Institute-Concord’s Community College | $7,104 | $19,837,446 | 45.8% |
| 10. | Blinn College | $2,424 | $48,806,629 | 44.5% |
| 11. | Pennsylvania Highlands Community College | $5,790 | $7,987,807 | 44.5% |
| 12. | Sussex County Community College | $6,750 | $13,065,924 | 43.6% |
| 13. | Community College of Denver | $3,702 | $27,514,160 | 43.3% |
| 14. | Great Bay Community College | $7,104 | $10,344,243 | 42.1% |
| 15. | Middlesex County College | $3,420 | $44,397,800 | 41.2% |
| 16. | Ohio State U. Agricultural Technical Institute | $7,203 | $4,885,431 | 41.0% |
| 17. | Lakes Region Community College | $6,642 | $5,651,189 | 39.3% |
| 18. | Bergen Community College | $4,362 | $58,291,875 | 39.3% |
| 19. | Northern Virginia Community College | $5,313 | $141,777,159 | 39.1% |
| 20. | Hocking College | $4,390 | $17,970,920 | 38.9% |
| 21. | Bucks County Community College | $4,298 | $33,542,229 | 38.8% |
| 22. | Lehigh Carbon Community College | $3,900 | $20,611,804 | 38.1% |
| 23. | Massasoit Community College | $4,680 | $27,035,313 | 37.7% |
| 24. | Germanna Community College | $4,681 | $14,236,055 | 37.4% |
| 25. | Lake Area Technical Institute | $5,076 | $8,553,067 | 37.3% |
| 26. | Piedmont Virginia Community College | $4,558 | $10,271,827 | 37.1% |
| 27. | County College of Morris | $4,690 | $28,723,880 | 37.1% |
| 28. | Rowan C. at Burlington County | $4,065 | $18,905,350 | 37.0% |
| 29. | Moberly Area Community College | $3,120 | $12,170,439 | 37.0% |
| 30. | Mid Michigan Community College | $3,786 | $13,515,933 | 36.8% |
| 31. | Warren County Community College | $4,590 | $4,819,577 | 36.8% |
| 32. | Wharton County Junior College | $2,222 | $18,985,613 | 36.0% |
| 33. | Reading Area Community College | $5,310 | $15,270,721 | 35.2% |
| 34. | Community College of Beaver County | $5,790 | $10,618,549 | 34.8% |
| 35. | Southeast Technical Institute | $5,980 | $11,069,619 | 34.8% |
| 36. | Harrisburg Area Community College | $6,525 | $63,810,206 | 34.8% |
| 37. | Morgan Community College | $3,494 | $4,043,911 | 34.6% |
| 38. | Colorado Northwestern Community College | $3,736 | $4,755,839 | 34.1% |
| 39. | Essex County College | $4,546 | $40,374,705 | 33.9% |
| 40. | Northwest State Community College | $3,858 | $9,054,929 | 33.6% |
| | Median for 879 institutions | $3,627 | $5,609,988 | 15.3% |
Note: Percentages are rounded, but institutions were ranked before rounding. Colleges that did not submit full tuition and revenue data were omitted.
Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data.
