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Central Penn College is a private for-profit institution situated in Summerdale, Pennsylvania. Summerdale is a good match for students who enjoy the safety and convenience of the suburbs.

$24,510 Avg Cost After Aid (Undergrad)
89% Acceptance Rate

Where Is Central Penn College?

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Contact details for Central Penn are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 600 Valley Road, Summerdale, PA 17093-0309
Phone: 800-759-2727
Website: www.centralpenn.edu

How Do I Get Into Central Penn?

You can apply to Central Penn online at: https://www.centralpenn.edu/admissions-aid/apply-now/

Admission Requirements for Central Penn

Submission Required?
High School GPA Required
High School Rank Neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript Considered but not required
College Prep Program Neither required nor recommended
Recommendations Considered but not required
SAT or ACT Scores Considered but not required
TOEFL Required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Central Penn?

89% Acceptance Rate
66% Of Accepted Are Women
Since Central Penn has an acceptance rate of 89%, it is not too hard to gain acceptance into the school. Still, you need to be sure you complete your application in full and send in any other requested documents.

Approximately 34% of accepted students are men and 66% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 90%, and the acceptance rate for women is 88%.

Can I Afford Central Penn College?

$24,510 Net Price
84% Take Out Loans
3.6% Loan Default Rate
The overall average net price of Central Penn is $24,510. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Central Penn, approximately 84% of students took out student loans averaging $7,098 a year. That adds up to $28,392 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Central Penn is 3.6%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Central Penn College Undergraduate Student Diversity

205 Full-Time Undergraduates
57% Women
36% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
There are 872 undergraduate students at Central Penn, with 205 being full-time and 667 being part-time.

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There are also 19 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 205 full-time undergraduates at Central Penn, 43% are male and 57% are female.

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Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Central Penn College students is as follows.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Grads
Asian 10
Black or African American 29
Hispanic or Latino 24
White 122
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 20

Geographic Diversity

Pennsylvania students aren't the only ones who study at Central Penn College. At this time, 7 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 10 countries are represented at Central Penn. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Nigeria, China, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Online Learning at Central Penn College

502 Took All Classes Online
704 Took At Least One Class Online
-0.2% Avg Growth Over 4 Years
In 2020-2021, 704 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Central Penn has changed over the last few years.

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This school is the 33rd most popular in Pennsylvania for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of Central Penn

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Central Penn College was -0.2%. This is the #538 largest growth rate of all schools that are mostly online. This refers to all students at Central Penn regardless of major.

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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