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Five Towns College

Dix Hills, New York Private for-profit 4-year Large suburb

Overview

Five Towns College is a private for-profit four-year institution in Dix Hills, New York. The campus sits in a large suburban area. It enrolled 974 students in fall 2024, including 923 undergraduates and 51 graduate students.

Five Towns College offers certificates, associate degrees, bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees across 16 programs. Its largest programs by number of graduates are Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Other, Speech Communication and Rhetoric, and Music Performance. It awarded 114 degrees and certificates in 2024-25. One of its programs can be completed entirely online.

70% of full-time first-year students return for a second year. The student-to-faculty ratio is 11 to 1.

Key figures

974
Students enrolled
70%
First-year retention
114
Degrees and certificates awarded, 2024-25
16
Programs and majors
11:1
Student-to-faculty ratio

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Delivery modes

CampusOnlineHybrid

Program levels

CertificateAssociateBachelorMasterPhD

Programs and majors offered 16

Graduate counts are degrees and certificates awarded in each program between July 2024 and June 2025. Largest fields are listed first.

Business, Management and Marketing 2
Visual and Performing Arts 7
Communication and Journalism 1
Legal Professions and Studies 1
Computer and Information Sciences 1
Engineering Technologies 1
Education 2
Liberal Arts and General Studies 1

Outcomes

Retention is for students who started in fall 2023 and returned in fall 2024.

First-year retention, full-time students
70%
First-year retention, part-time students
100%
Student-to-faculty ratio
11:1

Degrees and certificates awarded

Awards conferred between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.

Bachelor's degrees
82
Associate degrees
17
Master's degrees
8
Doctoral degrees (research)
1
Certificates of 1 to 2 years
6

Enrollment

Students, fall 2024
974
Undergraduates, fall 2024
923
Graduate students, fall 2024
51
Full-time, fall 2024
54%
Students over the full 2024-25 year
1,139
Undergraduates, 2024-25
1,082
Graduate students, 2024-25
57
Full-time, 2024-25
49%
Size category
Under 1,000 students

Student body

Share of all students enrolled during 2024-25. Small groups can round to zero and are not listed.

Women
42%
Men
58%
White
25%
Hispanic or Latino
15%
Black or African American
9%
Asian
1%
Two or more races
2%
International (U.S. nonresident)
1%
Race or ethnicity unknown
47%

Online and flexible learning

Distance education in 2024-25.

Programs that can be completed fully online
1
Online undergraduate programs
Yes
Students studying fully online
4%
Students taking some online courses
16%

Campus and services

Setting
Large suburb
Academic calendar
Semester
Carnegie classification
Special Focus Four-Year: Arts, Music & Design Schools
Athletic association
NSCAA
President
David Cohen
Services and opportunities
Teacher certification, Academic and career counseling, Student employment services, Job placement for graduates, Accepts AP credit
For veterans and service members
Yellow Ribbon Program

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