Lakeland Community College

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#10919 / #2890
Global Influence / U.S. Influence
College in Lake County, Ohio, U.S.

Lakeland Community College at a Glance

U.S. influence rank
#2890
Tuition and fees (2025–26)
$4,132
Graduation rate
13%
Undergraduates (fall 2024)
2,773

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Lakeland Community College Featured Rankings

About Lakeland Community College

According to Wikipedia, Lakeland Community College is a public community college in Lake County, Ohio. Established in 1967, Lakeland was the first college in Ohio founded by a vote of the people. Today, Lakeland serves more than 8,000 full-time and part-time students each year at the main campus in Kirtland, an off-site location in Madison, and via distance learning.

Lakeland Community College's Online Degrees

Undergraduate Certificate in Small Business Accounting
  • Required Credits: 31
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Certificate in General Accounting
  • Required Credits: 34
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Certificate in Financial Accounting
  • Required Credits: 39
  • Format: Fully online
AAS in Business
Degree Concentrations
  • General Management
  • Information Management Concentration
  • Required Credits: 61
  • Completion Time: 2 years
  • Format: Fully online
AS in Applied Business Degree
  • Required Credits: 64
  • Completion Time: 2 years
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Certificate in Business Management
  • Required Credits: 24-25
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Certificate in E-Business
  • Required Credits: 24-25
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Certificate in Office Communications
  • Required Credits: 24-26
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Certificate in Business Information Management
  • Required Credits: 25
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Certificate in It Foundations
  • Required Credits: 7
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Certificate in It Specialist
  • Required Credits: 15-18
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Certificate in It Professional
  • Required Credits: 30-34
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Certificate in Computer User
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Certificate in Emergency Management Planning And Administration
  • Required Credits: 28
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Certificate in Fire Science Technology
  • Required Credits: 30
  • Format: Fully online
AAS in Emergency Management Planning And Administration
  • Required Credits: 62
  • Completion Time: 2 years
  • Format: Fully online
AAS in Fire Science Technology
  • Required Credits: 64
  • Completion Time: 2 years
  • Format: Fully online

Lakeland Community College Admissions, Retention, and Graduation Information

Retention RateGraduation Rate
62%13%

Source: U.S. Department of Education (College Scorecard and NCES); acceptance rate for fall 2024; test scores for fall 2024; applications and enrollment for fall 2023; retention for students who started in fall 2023; graduation rate within six years for students who started in 2019.

How Much Does Lakeland Community College Cost To Attend?

Tuition and fees (in-state)
$4,132
Average Net Price by Family Income (2024–25)
IncomeAverage Net Cost
0 - 30K$2,499
30K - 48K$3,482
48K - 75K$2,331
75K - 110K$6,592
110K+$8,499

Source: U.S. Department of Education (College Scorecard and NCES); tuition and fees for 2025–26; net price for 2024–25, for first-time, full-time students receiving financial aid.

How Much Do Lakeland Community College Graduates Make?

Ten years after starting college, former Lakeland Community College students who received federal financial aid earn a median of $44,165 a year, and 86% of those not still in school are working.

Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard; students who started college in 2011–12 or 2012–13, measured in 2022 and 2023, in 2024 dollars.

Lakeland Community College's Demographics

Students enrolled at any time during the 2023–24 school year, including part-time and online students.

Student BodyUnder-Grads
6,7056,705

Source: National Center for Education Statistics; 12-month enrollment for 2023–24.

Where is Lakeland Community College?

Lakeland Community College is located at 7700 Clocktower Drive, Kirtland, OH 44094-5198.

How Safe is Lakeland Community College?

No violent or property offenses were reported on Lakeland Community College’s campus in 2024. Its figures can also be looked up in the U.S. Department of Education’s Campus Safety and Security database.

Relative to its enrollment, Lakeland Community College has a violent crime rate of less than 0.01% and a property crime rate of less than 0.01%. Kirtland has a violent crime rate of 0.01% and a property (including theft) crime rate of 0.06%. Sources: campus: U.S. Department of Education Campus Safety and Security data, on-campus offenses in 2024 (violent: murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault; property: burglary, motor vehicle theft and arson, which excludes ordinary theft); city: FBI Crime Data Explorer, offenses reported to the city police in 2024.

What Is Lakeland Community College Known For?

Lakeland Community College is known for its academic work in the following disciplines:

Lakeland Community College's Top Areas of Influence With Degrees Offered

Each rank compares how much Lakeland Community College's faculty and alumni have shaped a field with other schools, using Wikipedia, Wikidata and scholarly citation databases such as Crossref and Semantic Scholar. World and U.S. ranks reflect modern influence; the historical rank counts influence across all time. How we rank influence

Nursing
#4945
World Rank
#4945
Historical Rank
#1966
USA Rank

Lakeland Community College ranks #1966 in the U.S. and #4945 worldwide for influence in Nursing.

nursing Degrees
Medical
#8669
World Rank
#8671
Historical Rank
#2469
USA Rank

Lakeland Community College ranks #2469 in the U.S. and #8669 worldwide for influence in Medical.

medicine Degrees
Communications
#11531
World Rank
#11541
Historical Rank
#3167
USA Rank

Lakeland Community College ranks #3167 in the U.S. and #11531 worldwide for influence in Communications.

communications Degrees
Criminal Justice
#6993
World Rank
#6995
Historical Rank
#3283
USA Rank

Lakeland Community College ranks #3283 in the U.S. and #6993 worldwide for influence in Criminal Justice.

criminal-justice Degrees
Computer Science
#12187
World Rank
#12194
Historical Rank
#3375
USA Rank

Lakeland Community College ranks #3375 in the U.S. and #12187 worldwide for influence in Computer Science.

computer-science Degrees