Private for-profit · Community college
Lotus Professional College
Richmond, Virginia · Large suburb
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Lotus Professional College is a private for-profit certificate-granting institution in Richmond, Virginia (large suburb setting), enrolling 171 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.
About Richmond, Virginia
Richmond is the capital city of the U.S. state of Virginia. After the first permanent English-speaking settlement was established at Jamestown, Virginia, in April 1607, Captain Christopher Newport led explorers northwest up the James River to an inhabited area in the Powhatan Nation, which takes its name from the location Pawat-hanne, or "falls in a stream," referring to the falls in the James River at present day Richmond, specifically Powhatan Hill. The Virginia Historical Society and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts are on the Boulevard. Nearby is the Science Museum of Virginia, housed on Broad Street in the neoclassical former 1919 Broad Street Union Station. (Wikipedia)
- Setting
- Large suburb
- Highest degree offered
- Graduate
- Nearest big city
- 9 miles to Richmond, VA
- To the ocean
- 25 miles
- Nearest airport
- 15 miles to Richmond (RIC) · major hub
How Lotus Professional College compares
Lower than 67%
Larger than 41%
Percentiles compare Lotus Professional College with the nation's 3,519 two-year and certificate schools, among schools reporting each statistic. State ranks count two-year and certificate schools in Virginia.
Student body
Undergraduate vs. graduate
- Undergraduate17196%
- Graduate74%
Undergraduates by race / ethnicity
- White43%
- Black34%
- Hispanic11%
- Asian2.9%
- Other or multiracial9.4%
Graduate gender splits aren't published in this data, so the gender chart covers undergraduates only.
By the numbers
- Undergraduate enrollment
- 171
- Graduate enrollment
- 7
- Student–faculty ratio
- 13 : 1
- Pell Grant recipients
- 50%
- First-generation students
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- Students over 25
- 72%
- Avg faculty salary (academic year)
- $38,997
Colleges don't publish true class-size data; student–faculty ratio (IPEDS) is the closest public measure of it.
Outcomes
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- Students with federal loans
- 55%
Campus life & athletics
- On-campus housing
- No
- Application fee
- $100
Housing and fees: IPEDS 2023–24. Athletics rosters: Equity in Athletics data, 2024–25. Dorm capacity can include graduate and family housing, so the share of undergrads can top 100%.
Campus climate
- Summer high
- 89°F
- Winter low
- 28°F
- Annual rain
- 45.8″
- Annual snow
- 14.7″
Average temperature
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NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Ashland Hanover CO Muni AP, VA US station (11 mi from campus).
What Lotus Professional College graduates study — and earn
Median earnings of this school's own graduates 1 and 5 years after finishing each program, and median federal-loan debt at completion (College Scorecard). Small programs are privacy-suppressed (—). Click a major to compare colleges nationally.
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Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard (most recent cohorts), IPEDS institutional characteristics, Equity in Athletics (EADA) data, Clery Act Campus Safety and Security data, and NOAA US Climate Normals. Distances are straight-line from campus coordinates. Percentiles compare schools of the same level (four-year vs. two-year) that report each statistic.