Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale

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#14008 / #3682
Global Influence / U.S. Influence

Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale at a Glance

U.S. influence rank
#3682
Tuition and fees (2025–26)
$6,062
Graduation rate
35%
Undergraduates (fall 2024)
33,048

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Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale Featured Rankings

About Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale

According to Wikipedia, The Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, located in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, is Northern Virginia Community College's largest campus. Campus description The Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale is physically located on Little River Turnpike in the Wakefield census-designated place, a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington in Fairfax County. It has an "Annandale, Virginia" postal address. The U.S. Census Bureau defined the campus as being in the Annandale CDP for the 1990 U.S. Census and the 2000 U.S. Census, but in 2010 separated the area with the NVCC campus into a new CDP.

Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale's Online Degrees

Undergraduate Career Studies Certificate in Business Information Technology
  • Required Credits: 16
  • Completion Time: 1 year
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Career Studies Certificate in Marketing: Digital Marketing
  • Required Credits: 19
  • Completion Time: 1 year
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Career Studies Certificate in Promotion And Public Relations
  • Required Credits: 19
  • Completion Time: 1 year
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Career Studies Certificate in Accounting
  • Required Credits: 27
  • Completion Time: 1 year
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Certificate in Bookkeeping
  • Required Credits: 31
  • Completion Time: 1 year
  • Format: Fully online
AAS in Accounting
  • Required Credits: 64
  • Completion Time: 2 years
  • Format: Fully online
AAS in Business Management
  • Required Credits: 64
  • Completion Time: 2 years
  • Format: Fully online
AS in Business Administration
  • Required Credits: 60-61
  • Completion Time: 2 years
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Career Studies Certificate in Application Programming
  • Required Credits: 14
  • Completion Time: 1 year
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Career Studies Certificate in Network Administration
  • Required Credits: 15
  • Completion Time: 1 year
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Career Studies Certificate in Information Systems Technology: Cloud Computing
  • Required Credits: 16
  • Completion Time: 1 year
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Career Studies Certificate in Information Systems Technology: Network Engineering Specialist
  • Required Credits: 16
  • Completion Time: 1 year
  • Format: Fully online
AS in Information Technology
  • Required Credits: 61
  • Completion Time: 2 years
  • Format: Fully online
AAS in Information Systems Technology
  • Required Credits: 65
  • Completion Time: 2 years
  • Format: Fully online
AS in Computer Science
  • Required Credits: 61-63
  • Completion Time: 2 years
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Career Studies Certificate in Cybersecurity
  • Required Credits: 27
  • Completion Time: 1 year
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Certificate in Administration Of Justice
  • Required Credits: 34
  • Completion Time: 1 year
  • Format: Fully online
AS in Criminology And Criminal Justice
  • Required Credits: 60
  • Completion Time: 2 years
  • Format: Fully online
AAS in Cybersecurity
  • Required Credits: 65
  • Completion Time: 2 years
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Career Studies Certificate in Early Childhood Development
  • Required Credits: 16
  • Completion Time: 1 year
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Career Studies Certificate in Infant And Toddler Care
  • Required Credits: 16
  • Completion Time: 1 year
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Certificate in Early Childhood Development
  • Required Credits: 31
  • Completion Time: 1 year
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Certificate in General Education
  • Required Credits: 33
  • Completion Time: 1 year
  • Format: Fully online
AS in Social Sciences
Degree Concentrations
  • Teacher Education
  • Required Credits: 60
  • Completion Time: 2 years
  • Format: Fully online
Undergraduate Career Studies Certificate in Leadership Development
  • Required Credits: 16
  • Completion Time: 1 year
  • Format: Fully online
AS in General Studies
Degree Concentrations
  • Health Science
  • Required Credits: 60
  • Completion Time: 2 years
  • Format: Fully online
AS in Social Science
  • Required Credits: 60
  • Completion Time: 2 years
  • Format: Fully online
AA in Liberal Arts
Degree Concentrations
  • Art History
  • Communication Studies
  • English
  • International Studies
  • Required Credits: 60-62
  • Completion Time: 2 years
  • Format: Fully online
AS in Liberal Arts
  • Required Credits: 60-63
  • Completion Time: 2 years
  • Format: Fully online
AS in Science
Degree Concentrations
  • Math Specialization
  • Required Credits: 60-65
  • Completion Time: 2 years
  • Format: Fully online

Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale Admissions, Retention, and Graduation Information

Retention RateGraduation Rate
71%35%

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 Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale Cost To Attend?

Tuition and fees (in-state)
$6,062
Average Net Price by Family Income (2024–25)
IncomeAverage Net Cost
0 - 30K$4,213
30K - 48K$3,996
48K - 75K$5,280
75K - 110K$8,889
110K+$13,696

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 Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale Graduates Make?

Ten years after starting college, former Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale students who received federal financial aid earn a median of $56,892 a year, and 87% 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.

Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale's Demographics

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

Student BodyUnder-Grads
73,32073,320

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

Where is Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale?

Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale is located at 4001 Wakefield Chapel Rd, Annandale, VA 22003-3796.

How Safe is Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale?

Like every college that receives federal student aid, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale publishes an annual security report with its campus crime statistics and safety policies. Its figures can also be looked up in the U.S. Department of Education’s Campus Safety and Security database.

Relative to its enrollment, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale has a violent crime rate of less than 0.01% and a property crime rate of 0.01%. 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).

What Is Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale Known For?

Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale is known for its academic work in the following disciplines:

Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale's Top Areas of Influence With Degrees Offered

Each rank compares how much Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale'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
#3804
World Rank
#3805
Historical Rank
#1506
USA Rank

Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale ranks #1506 in the U.S. and #3804 worldwide for influence in Nursing.

nursing Degrees
Psychology
#6031
World Rank
#6041
Historical Rank
#2258
USA Rank

Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale ranks #2258 in the U.S. and #6031 worldwide for influence in Psychology.

psychology Degrees
Criminal Justice
#5721
World Rank
#5723
Historical Rank
#2743
USA Rank

Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale ranks #2743 in the U.S. and #5721 worldwide for influence in Criminal Justice.

criminal-justice Degrees
Engineering
#12762
World Rank
#12765
Historical Rank
#3072
USA Rank

Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale ranks #3072 in the U.S. and #12762 worldwide for influence in Engineering.

engineering Degrees
Biology
#12063
World Rank
#12076
Historical Rank
#3252
USA Rank

Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale ranks #3252 in the U.S. and #12063 worldwide for influence in Biology.

biology Degrees
Medical
#12074
World Rank
#12076
Historical Rank
#3357
USA Rank

Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale ranks #3357 in the U.S. and #12074 worldwide for influence in Medical.

medicine Degrees
Education
#12895
World Rank
#12900
Historical Rank
#3473
USA Rank

Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale ranks #3473 in the U.S. and #12895 worldwide for influence in Education.

education Degrees