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Chestnut Hill College Overview

Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chestnut Hill College is a private not-for-profit institution. The city atmosphere of Philadelphia makes it a great place for students who enjoy having lots of educational and entertainment options.

What Is Chestnut Hill College Known For?

0 Undergraduate Awards
$42,750 Avg Cost After Aid
98% Acceptance Rate
  • CHC has an impressive student to faculty ratio of 9 to 1.
  • The 3% student loan default rate at CHC is better than the national rate of 10.1%. That's a good sign that you may be able to pay off student loans easier than your peers at other schools can.
  • The doctor's degree is the highest award offered at CHC.
  • For the <nil> academic year, 100% of the faculty were full-time.
  • After graduation, CHC bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $50,257 a year. That's about 23% more than their peers at other schools.
  • It takes the average CHC student 4.2 years to graduate. This is pretty good when compared to the national rate of 4.4 years.

Where Is Chestnut Hill College?

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Contact details for CHC are given below.

Contact Details
Address: 9601 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19118-2693
Phone: 215-248-7000
Website: www.chc.edu

How Do I Get Into CHC?

You can apply to CHC online at: www.chc.edu/apply

Admission Requirements for CHC

Submission Required?
High School GPA Required
High School Rank Neither required nor recommended
High School Transcript Required
College Prep Program Considered but not required
Recommendations Considered but not required
SAT or ACT Scores Considered but not required
TOEFL Required

How Hard Is It To Get Into CHC?

98% Acceptance Rate
57% Of Accepted Are Women
3% Submit SAT Scores
With an acceptance rate of 98%, CHC is fairly easy to get into, but you must be sure to submit the required materials.

Approximately 43% of accepted students are men and 57% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 98%, and the acceptance rate for women is 98%.

Average Test Scores

About 3% of students accepted to CHC submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 460 and 550. Math scores were between 440 and 540.

SAT Reading and Writing Scores for Chestnut Hill College  ( 460 to 550 )
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800

SAT Math Scores for Chestnut Hill College  ( 440 to 540 )
200
800
CHC received ACT scores from 0% of accepted students.

Can I Afford Chestnut Hill College?

$42,750 Net Price
88% Take Out Loans
2.7% Loan Default Rate
The overall average net price of CHC is $42,750. 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

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At CHC, approximately 88% of students took out student loans averaging $6,888 a year. That adds up to $27,552 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at CHC is 2.7%. 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.

Chestnut Hill College Undergraduate Student Diversity

867 Full-Time Undergraduates
54% Women
48% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
There are 1,072 undergraduate students at CHC, with 867 being full-time and 205 being part-time.

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There are also 433 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 867 full-time undergraduates at CHC, 46% are male and 54% are female.

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Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Chestnut Hill College students is as follows.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Grads
Asian 13
Black or African American 250
Hispanic or Latino 122
White 331
International Students 19
Other Races/Ethnicities 132

Geographic Diversity

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

Over 31 countries are represented at CHC. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Saudi Arabia, Belgium, and Spain.

Online Learning at Chestnut Hill College

101 Took All Classes Online
400 Took At Least One Class Online
661.3% Avg Growth Over 4 Years
In 2020-2021, 400 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

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This school is the 100th most popular in Pennsylvania for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2020-2021.

Online Growth Rankings of CHC

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Chestnut Hill College was 661.3%. This is the #133 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at CHC regardless of major.

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%.

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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