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What's exceptional about Central Penn College (centralpenn) ?

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many debtors; within 50 miles

Central Penn College has the 2nd-most undergrads who receive student loans (97%) of the 32 colleges that are within 50 miles. That 97% compares to an average of 75% across the 32 colleges.



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The Art Institutes of York-PA is first with 98%.

Incidentally, both are private and for-profit.

outdid U of Phoenix-Harrisburg Campus (90%), Penn State-Schuylkill (90%), Mount St Mary's Univ (89%), and Lancaster General College of Nursing & Health Sciences (85%), and others, ending with Bucknell (40%).

7 out of the other 31 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for undergrads who receive student loans, e.g., Elizabethtown College School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

References

  1. The data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
  2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.

Profile

Central Penn College is in Summerdale, PA, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in business, is on the trimester system, its top Associates major is physical therapy technician/assistant, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

  • average full-time teaching salary ($51,695)
  • in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,705)
  • out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,705)
  • average grant aid to undergrads ($7,967)
  • average undergrad student loan ($7,769)
  • cost of a shared room ($5,070)
  • endowment per full-time student ($0)
  • undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
  • undergrads who receive student loans (97%)
  • in-state freshmen (89.3%)
  • undergrads who get Pell grants (78%)
  • ratio of female full-time freshmen (64%)
  • full-time retention rate (55%)
  • minorities (23.3%)
  • Blacks or African Americans (17.9%)
  • tuition & fees increase over three years (13.4%)
  • average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 3.8%)
  • Hispanics (3.8%)
  • Asians (1.3%)
  • American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
  • non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
  • foreign students (0%)
  • average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -3.7%)
  • alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
  • average January temperature (29.0 degrees)
  • dorm capacity (450)
  • first-year applicants (1,182)
  • foreign students (0)
  • members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
  • men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
  • Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
  • yearly for-credit students (2,158)
  • on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.8)
  • students per faculty member (14)
  • annual rainfall (43.6 inches)
  • elevation (117 meters)

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