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Sessions College

Tempe, Arizona Private for-profit 4-year Midsize city

Overview

Located in Tempe, Arizona, Sessions College is a private for-profit four-year institution. All of its programs are delivered through distance education. It enrolled 194 students in fall 2024.

Sessions College offers certificates, associate degrees, and bachelor's degrees across 7 programs. Its largest programs by number of graduates are Illustration, Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics, and Special Effects, and Commercial Photography. It awarded 57 degrees and certificates in 2024-25.

The school has an open admission policy. 67% of full-time first-year students return for a second year. The student-to-faculty ratio is 13 to 1.

Key figures

Open
Admission policy
194
Students enrolled
67%
First-year retention
57
Degrees and certificates awarded, 2024-25
7
Programs and majors
13:1
Student-to-faculty ratio

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Delivery modes

Online

Program levels

CertificateAssociateBachelor

Programs and majors offered 7

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

Visual and Performing Arts 5
Communications Technologies 1
Computer and Information Sciences 1

Admissions

Admission policy
Open admission

Outcomes

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

First-year retention, full-time students
67%
First-year retention, part-time students
50%
Student-to-faculty ratio
13:1

Degrees and certificates awarded

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

Bachelor's degrees
5
Associate degrees
20
Certificates under 1 year
32

Enrollment

Students, fall 2024
194
Undergraduates, fall 2024
194
Full-time, fall 2024
39%
Students over the full 2024-25 year
392
Full-time, 2024-25
37%
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
61%
Men
39%
White
48%
Hispanic or Latino
15%
Black or African American
22%
Asian
4%
Two or more races
7%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
1%
Race or ethnicity unknown
4%

Online and flexible learning

Distance education in 2024-25.

Delivery
All programs are offered fully online
Programs that can be completed fully online
7
Online undergraduate programs
Yes
Students studying fully online
100%
Students taking some online courses
0%

Campus and services

Setting
Midsize city
Academic calendar
Semester
Carnegie classification
Special Focus Two-Year: Arts & Design
President
Gordon Drummond
Services and opportunities
Academic and career counseling
For veterans and service members
Yellow Ribbon Program, Dedicated veterans contact

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