DeSales University Overview

Located in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, DeSales University is a private not-for-profit institution. Students who love country life may enjoy the rural location of DeSales.

What Is DeSales University Known For?

• The 1% student loan default rate at DeSales 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 DeSales.
• In <nil>, 36% of the faculty were full-time.
• After graduation, DeSales bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $57,821 a year. That's about 42% more than their peers at other schools.

Where Is DeSales University?

Contact details for DeSales are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	2755 Station Avenue, Center Valley, PA 18034-9568
Phone:	610-282-1100
Website:	www.desales.edu

How Do I Get Into DeSales?

You can apply to DeSales online at: www.desales.edu/admissions-financial-aid/undergraduate-admissions-aid/how-to-apply

Admission Requirements for DeSales

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	Required
High School Rank	Recommended
High School Transcript	Required
College Prep Program	Required
Recommendations	Required
SAT or ACT Scores	Considered but not required
TOEFL	Required

How Hard Is It To Get Into DeSales?

With an acceptance rate of 78%, DeSales may not be as selective as some schools, but you should not take admittance for granted. Be sure to submit the best application you can.

Approximately 32% of accepted students are men and 68% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 76%, and the acceptance rate for women is 80%.

Average Test Scores

About 31% of students accepted to DeSales submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 550 and 640. Math scores were between 530 and 620.

DeSales received ACT scores from 4% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 22 and 31. Math scores were between 21 and 27. Composite scores were between 23 and 29.

Can I Afford DeSales University?

The overall average net price of DeSales is $41,033. 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 DeSales, approximately 71% of students took out student loans averaging $9,594 a year. That adds up to $38,376 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at DeSales is 1.0%. 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.

DeSales University Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 2,309 undergraduate students at DeSales, with 1,949 being full-time and 360 being part-time.

There are also 792 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,949 full-time undergraduates at DeSales, 38% are male and 62% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of DeSales University students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	85
Black or African American	94
Hispanic or Latino	221
White	1,429
International Students	7
Other Races/Ethnicities	113

Geographic Diversity

Pennsylvania students aren't the only ones who study at DeSales University. At this time, 16 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 13 countries are represented at DeSales. The most popular countries sending students to the school are United Kingdom, Australia, and France.

Online Learning at DeSales University

In 2020-2021, 1,386 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 22nd 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 DeSales

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at DeSales University was 13.4%. This is the #1,252 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at DeSales 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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics

More about our data sources and methodologies.