{"id":349356,"date":"2026-09-17T16:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349356\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:02:13","slug":"niche-ranks-qcc-as-best-community-college-in-new-york-state-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349356\/","title":{"rendered":"Niche ranks QCC as best community college in New York State \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Queensborough Community College library.<\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of Queensborough Community College<\/p>\n

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Queensborough Community College<\/a> (QCC) in Bayside<\/a> was ranked as the best community college in New York State by Niche<\/a>, which provides in-depth profiles and ratings on every school and college in the U.S.<\/p>\n

In addition to being ranked first in New York State among community colleges, QCC also placed 39th out of 732 for the best community college in the country, as well as 37th out of 179 for best Asian American, Native American and Pacific Islander-serving institutions and 43rd out of 450 for best Hispanic-serving institutions in America.<\/p>\n

QCC earned these strong rankings<\/a> based on rigorous analysis of key statistics provided by the U.S. Department of Education, along with submitted student reviews on Niche.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are proud to be recognized as New York State\u2019s top community college,\u201d QCC President Christine Mangino said. \u201cThis honor belongs to our entire college community and reflects the commitment of our faculty and staff in supporting our students academically and holistically. Hearing directly from students in this survey makes the recognition especially meaningful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Based on 1,268 reviews, QCC has a rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars and an overall grade of B+ on Niche. The college earned immense praise for its diversity, which is reflective of the borough of Queens.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall, my experience was great,\u201d one reviewer said. \u201cGreat community and was able to feel comfortable in an environment that I first was scared to be in.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI would honestly say that my time at Queensborough has been amazing thus far,\u201d another reviewer said. \u201cI transferred from an urban private college and the people at Queensborough are just so welcoming and inviting. The professors are understanding while also pushing you to do more than your best. It\u2019s honestly everything I could dream of in a college.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Queensborough Community College library. Photo courtesy of Queensborough Community College Queensborough Community College (QCC) in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13999,9,11,10,49,51,50,130576,71399,73165],"class_list":["post-349356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-community-colleges","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-niche","tag-qcc","tag-queensborough-community-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}