Butler County Community College has been ranked as the No. 1 community college in Pennsylvania for an eighth time since 2015.
Niche.com in August named BC3 as No. 1 in its Best Community Colleges in Pennsylvania report.
Niche also ranked BC3 as No. 1 in 2021. BC3 was also named No. 1 by BestColleges.com in 2022, 2020 and in 2017, and by Schools.com in 2015, 2017 and 2019.
Niche weighted academics at 40 percent; value at 27.5 percent, professors at 7.5 percent, and analyzed other factors such as campus, diversity, student life, student surveys on overall experience, local area and safety.
Sources in Niche’s August report included the National Center for Education Statistics’ Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System; the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Post-Secondary Education and College Scorecard data; the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit public policy and research organization; and its college student survey.
Niche is a Pittsburgh-based online platform.
