Cedar Crest College Overview

Cedar Crest College is a private not-for-profit institution situated in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Allentown is a great location for students who prefer city over country life.

What Is Cedar Crest College Known For?

• Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at Cedar Crest since the student to facuty ratio is 9 to 1.
• The highest award offered at Cedar Crest is the doctor's degree.
• During a recent academic cycle, 39% of the faculty were full-time.
• Students who graduate from Cedar Crest with a bachelor's degree make about $59,460 a year. That's 46% more than those who graduate from other schools.
• On average, it takes about 4.2 years for students from Cedar Crest to earn a bachelor's degree. This is excellent when compared to the average of 4.4 years.

Where Is Cedar Crest College?

Contact details for Cedar Crest are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	100 College Drive, Allentown, PA 18104-6196
Phone:	610-606-4666
Website:	www.cedarcrest.edu

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How Do I Get Into Cedar Crest?

You can apply to Cedar Crest online at: https://cedarcrestcollege.force.com/ERx_Forms__Portal_Login

Admission Requirements for Cedar Crest

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	1
High School Rank	1
High School Transcript	1
College Prep Program	1
Recommendations	1
SAT or ACT Scores	5
TOEFL	1

How Hard Is It To Get Into Cedar Crest?

Cedar Crest has an acceptance rate of 84%, which means that is not quite as selective as some other schools. Still, you'll need good grades and a solid application if you want to be admitted.

Approximately 2% of accepted students are men and 98% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 65%, and the acceptance rate for women is 85%.

Average Test Scores

About 17% of students accepted to Cedar Crest submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 520 and 635. Math scores were between 460 and 595.

Can I Afford Cedar Crest College?

The overall average net price of Cedar Crest is $42,070. 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

It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At Cedar Crest, approximately 79% of students took out student loans averaging $8,974 a year. That adds up to $35,896 over four years for those students.

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Cedar Crest College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,088 undergraduate students at Cedar Crest, with 815 being full-time and 273 being part-time.

There are also 345 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 815 full-time undergraduates at Cedar Crest, 6% are male and 94% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Cedar Crest College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	25
Black or African American	67
Hispanic or Latino	115
White	487
International Students	45
Other Races/Ethnicities	76

Geographic Diversity

Pennsylvania students aren't the only ones who study at Cedar Crest College. At this time, 14 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 7 countries are represented at Cedar Crest. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Sweden.

Cedar Crest College Undergraduate Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Basic Certificate	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	Doctor’s	TOTAL
Nursing	0	95	5	17	10	127
Business Administration & Management	0	19	1	10	0	30
General Education	0	3	0	24	0	27
Food, Nutrition & Related Services	0	5	0	22	0	27
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services	0	0	27	0	0	27
Criminology	0	17	0	8	0	25
Teacher Education Grade Specific	0	12	10	0	0	22
Security Science and Technology	8	9	0	4	0	21
General Psychology	0	19	0	0	0	19
Social Work	7	9	0	0	0	16
Physiology & Pathology Sciences	0	0	1	11	0	12
Public Health	0	11	0	0	0	11
General Biology	0	9	0	0	0	9
Human Resource Management	6	0	1	0	0	7
Health & Medical Administrative Services	7	0	0	0	0	7
Chemistry	0	7	0	0	0	7
Genetics	0	6	0	0	0	6
Special Education	0	4	2	0	0	6
Health Sciences & Services	0	6	0	0	0	6
Health & Physical Education	0	6	0	0	0	6
General English Literature	0	4	0	0	0	4
Writing Studies	0	1	0	3	0	4
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	0	3	0	0	0	3
Neurobiology & Neurosciences	0	3	0	0	0	3
Political Science & Government	0	3	0	0	0	3
Fine & Studio Arts	0	3	0	0	0	3
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology	0	2	0	0	0	2
Accounting	0	2	0	0	0	2
Communication & Media Studies	0	2	0	0	0	2
Radio, Television & Digital Communication	0	2	0	0	0	2
Romance Languages	0	2	0	0	0	2
Allied Health Professions	0	2	0	0	0	2
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	0	1	0	1	0	2
Mathematics	0	2	0	0	0	2
International Studies	0	2	0	0	0	2
History	0	1	0	0	0	1
Interdisciplinary Studies	0	0	0	1	0	1
Natural Resources Conservation	0	1	0	0	0	1
Dance	0	1	0	0	0	1
Drama & Theater Arts	0	1	0	0	0	1
Marketing	0	0	0	0	0	0
Management Information Systems	0	0	0	0	0	0
Public Relations & Advertising	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other Education	0	0	0	0	0	0
Teacher Education Subject Specific	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bioethics/Medical Ethics	0	0	0	0	0	0
Liberal Arts General Studies	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gerontology	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other Physical Science	0	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	28	275	47	101	10	461

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
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