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 at Cedar Crest may have an easier time interacting with their teachers since the student to faculty ratio at the school is 10 to 1.
• The student loan default rate at Cedar Crest is 2%, which is significantly lower than the national rate of 10.1%. That's great news for students who are worrying about paying off their student loans.
• The highest award offered at Cedar Crest is the doctor's degree.
• For the 2019-2020 academic year, 41% of the faculty were full-time.
• After graduation, Cedar Crest bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $52,679 a year. That's about 29% more than their peers at 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.

Cedar Crest College Rankings

These rankings may look different from those published by other outlets, because we use an outcomes-based approach rather than a subjective one. We get our data from a number of places, including the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard. For more information, check out our rankings and methodology page.

Program Level Awards

These are highlights of some of the most noteworthy awards granted to specific programs at Cedar Crest.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#2	Most Popular Online Dietetics & Nutrition Services Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#3	Best Value Dietetics & Nutrition Services Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#6	Most Popular Dietetics & Nutrition Services Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#29	Most Popular Online Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#51	Best Value Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#51	Best Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#98	Most Popular Health Professions Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#138	Best Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

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
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/CedarCrestCollege
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/cedarcrestcolle

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	required
High School Rank	required
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	required
Recommendations	required
SAT or ACT Scores	required
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Cedar Crest?

Cedar Crest has an acceptance rate of 52%, which means it is fairly selective. Take that into account when you are working on your application and gathering requested materials. Do what you can to stand out among other applicants.

Approximately 2% of accepted students are men and 98% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 4%, and the acceptance rate for women is 70%.

Average Test Scores

About 92% 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 490 and 600. Math scores were between 480 and 570.

Cedar Crest received ACT scores from 14% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 16 and 23. Math scores were between 16 and 24. Composite scores were between 18 and 24.

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 83% of students took out student loans averaging $9,455 a year. That adds up to $37,820 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Cedar Crest is 2.3%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

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.

Online Learning at Cedar Crest College

In 2019-2020, 815 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at Cedar Crest has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 33rd most popular in Pennsylvania for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Affordability Rankings of Cedar Crest

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at Cedar Crest College was $41,567 for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows how Cedar Crest is ranked for affordability for both in-state and out-of-state students among colleges and universities that are not mostly online.

Major	Tuition for In-State Students	Tuition for Out-of-State Students
Criminology	#57	#57
Food, Nutrition & Related Services	#65	#65

Online Growth Rankings of Cedar Crest

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Cedar Crest College was 25.2%. This is the #963 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Cedar Crest regardless of major.

The following table shows the 1-year growth rate of Cedar Crest majors that offer at least one online course. This table only includes majors with positive growth.

Major	1-Year Growth Rate
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services	16%
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences	12%
Food, Nutrition & Related Services	12%
Human Resource Management	36%

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at Cedar Crest ranks compared to all other partially online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at Cedar Crest.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Food, Nutrition & Related Services	#13
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services	#42
Human Resource Management	#152
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences	#158
Teacher Education Grade Specific	#250
Health & Medical Administrative Services	#371
Nursing	#405

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

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	TOTAL
Nursing	0	60	7	16	83
Business Administration & Management	1	24	1	18	44
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services	0	0	31	0	31
Food, Nutrition & Related Services	0	6	0	20	26
General Education	0	1	0	21	22
Social Work	8	13	0	0	21
General Psychology	0	17	0	0	17
Teacher Education Grade Specific	0	9	7	0	16
General Biology	0	15	0	0	15
Criminology	0	14	0	0	14
Health & Medical Administrative Services	13	0	0	0	13
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	0	9	0	3	12
Human Resource Management	11	0	0	0	11
Public Relations & Advertising	0	10	0	0	10
Chemistry	0	9	0	0	9
Health Sciences & Services	0	8	0	0	8
Special Education	0	0	7	0	7
Communication & Media Studies	0	4	0	0	4
History	0	4	0	0	4
Mathematics	0	4	0	0	4
Drama & Theater Arts	0	4	0	0	4
Fine & Studio Arts	0	4	0	0	4
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology	0	3	0	0	3
Genetics	0	3	0	0	3
General English Literature	0	3	0	0	3
Natural Resources Conservation	0	3	0	0	3
Political Science & Government	0	3	0	0	3
Writing Studies	0	1	0	1	2
Allied Health Professions	0	2	0	0	2
Health & Physical Education	0	2	0	0	2
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	0	1	0	0	1
Accounting	0	1	0	0	1
Radio, Television & Digital Communication	0	1	0	0	1
Liberal Arts General Studies	0	1	0	0	1
International Studies	0	1	0	0	1
Dance	0	1	0	0	1
Neurobiology & Neurosciences	0	0	0	0	0
Marketing	0	0	0	0	0
Other Education	0	0	0	0	0
Teacher Education Subject Specific	0	0	0	0	0
Romance Languages	0	0	0	0	0
Gerontology	0	0	0	0	0
Other Physical Science	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	33	241	53	79	406

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
• Image Credit: By CyberXRef under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.