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What's exceptional about Penn State-Wilkes-Barre (wb.psu) ?

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locale; in its state

Of the 166 colleges that are in Pennsylvania, Penn State-Wilkes-Barre is one of only 3 that are rural.



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with Penn State-New Kensington and DeSales Univ.

Incidentally, all 3 require test scores for undergrad admissions.

References

  1. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
  2. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).

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Penn State-Wilkes-Barre is in Lehman, PA, is public, degree-granting, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is surveying technology/surveying, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

  • average full-time teaching salary ($66,148)
  • out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($19,794)
  • in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,238)
  • endowment per full-time student ($8,617)
  • average grant aid to undergrads ($6,890)
  • average undergrad student loan ($6,057)
  • in-state freshmen (95.3%)
  • undergrads who get financial aid (93%)
  • full-time retention rate (84%)
  • undergrads who receive student loans (79%)
  • non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (49.5%)
  • undergrads who get Pell grants (40%)
  • ratio of female full-time freshmen (39.8%)
  • average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 25.4%)
  • tuition & fees increase over three years (8.9%)
  • minorities (8.7%)
  • Blacks or African Americans (4.3%)
  • Hispanics (2.8%)
  • Asians (1.4%)
  • foreign students (0.2%)
  • American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
  • average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -20.3%)
  • 25th percentile SAT math score (450)
  • 25th percentile SAT reading score (430)
  • 25th percentile SAT writing score (410)
  • 75th percentile SAT math score (560)
  • 75th percentile SAT reading score (540)
  • 75th percentile SAT writing score (530)
  • alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
  • first-year applicants (549)
  • foreign students (2)
  • members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
  • men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
  • Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
  • total 75th percentile SAT score (1,630)
  • yearly for-credit students (812)
  • on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
  • students per faculty member (14)
  • annual rainfall (40.7 inches)
  • elevation (396 meters)

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