In its yearly rankings, College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities to determine which ones are the best in a variety of categories, such as overall value, quality, diversity, which schools are the best for each major, and much more.
Central Penn College was awarded 22 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is health professions.
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College Factual ranked Central Penn as #581 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Central Penn held the #922 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Central Penn is also ranked #32 out of 103 schools in Pennsylvania.
The acceptance rate at Central Penn College is a competitive 34%, so make sure you take your application seriously when putting it together. Even leaving out a minor detail could be a reason to move you to the rejection pile.
At Central Penn, the student to faculty ratio is an excellent 9 to 1. That's much better than the national average of 15 to 1. This indicates that many classes will probably be small, and students will have ample opportunites to work closely with their professors and classmates.
When estimating how much access students will have to their teachers, some people like to look at what percentage of faculty members are full time. This is because part-time teachers may not have as much time to spend on campus as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Central Penn College is 42%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 75% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Central Penn College enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At Central Penn the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 42%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
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During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 941 undergraduates at Central Penn with 225 being full-time and 716 being part-time.
$0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
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$9,968 | $9,761 | $17,624 | $18,011 | $15,410 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Central Penn, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At Central Penn, approximately 68% of students took out student loans averaging $8,363 a year. That adds up to $33,452 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Central Penn are given below.
Contact Details | |
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Address: | 600 Valley Road, Summerdale, PA 17093-0309 |
Phone: | 800-759-2727 |
Website: | https://www.centralpenn.edu/ |
Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
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Business Administration & Management | 108 | $49,497 |
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services | 100 | NA |
Criminal Justice & Corrections | 33 | $40,145 |
Computer Science | 32 | $49,718 |
Health & Medical Administrative Services | 29 | $47,565 |
Legal Professions (Other) | 17 | $40,226 |
Communication & Media Studies | 12 | NA |
Accounting | 11 | $52,185 |
Clinical/Medical Laboratory Science | 7 | NA |
Entrepreneurial Studies | 6 | NA |
Online courses area a great option for busy, working students as well as for those who have scheduling conflicts and want to study on their own time. As time goes by, expect to see more and more online learning options become available.
In 2022-2023, 709 students took at least one online class at Central Penn College. This is an increase from the 704 students who took online classes the previous year.
Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
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2022-2023 | 709 | 457 |
2021-2022 | 704 | 502 |
2020-2021 | 823 | 555 |
2018-2019 | 837 | 501 |
Footnotes
*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.
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