Bellingham Technical College
Bellingham, WA · Public · Small city · BTC · Bellingham Vocational Technical Institute
Public institution in Bellingham, WA · 1,523 undergraduates · $49,748 median earnings 10 years after entry.
- Top 3%Out-of-state tuition & fees
- Top 4%Average net price
- Top 5%In-state tuition & fees
- Top 8%Cost of attendance
Stats
College Scorecard figures, each with where this school sits nationally among institutions that report the same measure. A dash means the school does not report it.
Cost
- Average net price
- $4,97175th cheapest of 1,969 reporting
- In-state tuition & fees
- $4,226107th cheapest of 2,024 reporting
- Out-of-state tuition & fees
- $5,55554th cheapest of 2,024 reporting
- Cost of attendance
- $14,885156th cheapest of 1,969 reporting
- Median graduate debt
- $17,459425th lowest of 1,865 reporting
Outcomes
- Median earnings, 10 years after entry
- $49,7481,074th highest of 1,954 reporting
- Median earnings, 6 years after entry
- $43,235998th highest of 1,950 reporting
- Graduation rate (4-year)
- 45.5%1,330th highest of 2,014 reporting
- Full-time retention
- —
Admissions
- Acceptance rate
- —
- Average SAT
- —
- Median ACT
- —
Campus
- Undergraduates
- 1,5231,102nd largest of 2,144 reporting
- Student-faculty ratio
- 23.0:12,007th smallest of 2,141 reporting
- Pell Grant share
- 31.1%1,124th highest of 2,122 reporting
Nearest large-hub airport: 91 mi (SEA)
List appearances
This school doesn’t place in the top slice of any of our 111 lists. Most lists are Top 25–50, so absence here is common and says little on its own.
Best-paying fields of study
Median earnings one and two years after graduating, by field. Showing 1 of 1 reported programs.
| Field | Level | 1 yr | 2 yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Administration, Management and OperationsBusiness | bachelors | — | — |
Campus facts
Similar-size colleges
Nearest undergraduate enrollment to Bellingham Technical College’s 1,523 (College Scorecard UGDS, compiled 2026-10-24). Size only — not a judgment of similarity or quality.
In WA
- Whitman CollegeWalla Walla, WA · 1,523 undergrads
- Renton Technical CollegeRenton, WA · 1,539 undergrads
- South Seattle CollegeSeattle, WA · 1,495 undergrads
- Centralia CollegeCentralia, WA · 1,476 undergrads
- University of Puget SoundTacoma, WA · 1,631 undergrads
- Lower Columbia CollegeLongview, WA · 1,743 undergrads
Elsewhere
- Galveston CollegeGalveston, TX · 1,524 undergrads
- Saint Francis UniversityLoretto, PA · 1,525 undergrads
- Willamette UniversitySalem, OR · 1,525 undergrads
- King's CollegeWilkes-Barre, PA · 1,519 undergrads
- Limestone UniversityGaffney, SC · 1,528 undergrads
- Atlantic UniversityGuaynabo, PR · 1,517 undergrads
Key links
- Official websitebtc.edu
- College ScorecardFederal source for every figure above (UNITID 234696)
- Compare colleges in WARe-score with your weights
- The Most Selective Colleges in WashingtonEvery eligible four-year in this state, ranked by published admission rate
- Compare with Whitman CollegeSide by side on every Scorecard measure — closest in-state school by enrollment
- Showdown: Bellingham Technical College vs Whitman CollegeHigher-or-lower on real Scorecard metrics — round 1 is these two
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