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Pennsylvania Colleges

Earnings, debt, completion, and default rates for every Title-IV institution in Pennsylvania — and every program where federal data is published. Sourced from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and Treasury tax records.

256 INSTITUTIONS · 9,791 PROGRAMS · 4/5/6/8/10Y EARNINGS HORIZONSVINTAGE · COLLEGE SCORECARD + IPEDS HD · 2025-05 · HISTORY 1996–2024
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS

What the data flags across Pennsylvania

Top signals rolled up across Pennsylvaniainstitutions — a mix of warnings and improvements, alternating so the page isn't skewed in either direction. Detectors: short-arc shift (recent 3-year window), earnings trend, peer outlier, completion drop, enrollment cliff, and debt-to-earnings warning. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section.

PEER OUTLIER · WARNING-50%

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer

10-year earnings at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts are 50% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($29.9k vs $59.5k).

PEER OUTLIER · WARNING-49%

ASPIRA City College · Private nonprofit certificate-predominant peer

10-year earnings at ASPIRA City College are 49% below the private nonprofit certificate-predominant peer median ($34.9k vs $68.6k).

PEER OUTLIER · WARNING-48%

Pennsylvania Institute of Technology · Private nonprofit certificate-predominant peer

10-year earnings at Pennsylvania Institute of Technology are 48% below the private nonprofit certificate-predominant peer median ($35.7k vs $68.6k).

PEER OUTLIER · WARNING-44%

Pennsylvania College of Art and Design · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer

10-year earnings at Pennsylvania College of Art and Design are 44% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($33.3k vs $59.5k).

PEER OUTLIER · WARNING-44%

Orleans Technical College · Private nonprofit certificate-predominant peer

10-year earnings at Orleans Technical College are 44% below the private nonprofit certificate-predominant peer median ($38.7k vs $68.6k).

PEER OUTLIER · WARNING-36%

Moore College of Art and Design · Private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer

10-year earnings at Moore College of Art and Design are 36% below the private nonprofit bachelor's-predominant peer median ($37.8k vs $59.5k).

SECTION 01 · STATE OVERVIEW

The numbers

Statewide aggregates across Pennsylvania Title-IV institutions. Earnings are 10 years after entry, computed by Treasury tax records on federally aided students. Sparklines trace the federally available history.

INSTITUTIONS
256
Title-IV main campuses
PROGRAMS (CIP × CREDENTIAL)
9,791
with published outcomes
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 10Y
$49,859
across institutions
COMPLETION · 150%
66.1%
median across institutions
UNDERGRAD ENROLLMENT
169,597
latest historical vintage
IN-STATE TUITION
$26,423
median across institutions
SECTION 02 · LONG ARC

How Pennsylvania has shifted

Federally available history. Sparkline coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.

UNDERGRAD ENROLLMENT · 1996–2024169,597
495,324165,08519962024
Statewide undergraduate enrollment, all Title-IV institutions.IPEDS EF
COMPLETION · 150% · 1997–200969.1%
70%65%19972009
Median completion rate within 150% of expected time.IPEDS GR
UNDERGRAD ENROLLMENT · 1996→2024-55%

Statewide · undergrad enrollment fell

375,139 → 169,597

IN-STATE TUITION · 2000→2024+170%

Statewide · in-state tuition rose

$9,784 → $26,423

SECTION 03 · INSTITUTIONS

92 institutions with 1,000+ undergrads, ranked by 10-year earnings

Click any column header to sort. Click any row for the full institution page. Heat-shading runs against the displayed values; em-dash means the cell was suppressed by federal privacy rules. Institutions with fewer than 1,000undergrads are filtered out here — small specialty schools (cosmetology, barbering, single-credential institutes) arithmetically dominate the extremes on every metric and aren't comparable to larger schools.

Showing 92 of 256 Title-IV institutions · Public 61 · Private 129 · For-profit 66
SECTION 04 · TOP BY EARNINGS

Highest 10-year median earnings

Treasury earnings, 10 years after entry. Includes non-completers and out-of-state movers in the cohort.

PHILADELPHIA$138.8k

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

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PITTSBURGH$114.9k

Carnegie Mellon

7,187 undergrads · 93% completion
PHILADELPHIA$111.4k

Penn

10,768 undergrads · 97% completion
BETHLEHEM$105.6k

Lehigh University

5,803 undergrads · 89% completion
VILLANOVA$100.4k

Villanova

7,005 undergrads · 92% completion
LEWISBURG$93.8k

Bucknell University

3,818 undergrads · 86% completion
SECTION 05 · TOP BY COMPLETION

Highest 150%-time completion

Share of first-time, full-time freshmen who complete within 150% of expected time (IPEDS GR). Filtered to institutions with more than 1,000undergrads — tiny cohorts skew toward 100% and aren't comparable to larger schools.

PHILADELPHIA97%

Penn

$111.4k earnings · 10y · 10,768 undergrads
SWARTHMORE94%

Swarthmore

$80.3k earnings · 10y · 1,627 undergrads
BY CITY

All 137 Pennsylvania cities with colleges

Each city has its own hub with the colleges located there. Alphabetical.

METHODOLOGY

What these numbers are — and aren't

Earnings are median tax-record earnings for federally aided students, 4–10 years after first enrollment. They describe cohorts, not future outcomes — and they include non-completers and out-of-state movers. Selection bias is real: high-earning programs may attract higher-earning students. We surface descriptive numbers, not causal claims.

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