Elizabethtown College Overview

Elizabethtown College is a private not-for-profit institution situated in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. Etown is located in a safe and convenient suburb.

What Is Elizabethtown College Known For?

• The 3% student loan default rate at Etown 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 highest award offered at Etown is the doctor's degree.
• In 2019-2020, 56% of the faculty were full-time.
• Students who graduate from Etown with a bachelor's degree make about $58,289 a year. That's 43% more than those who graduate from other schools.
• The average Etown student graduates in 4.1 years. That's better than the national average of 4.4 years.

Elizabethtown College Rankings

We have ranked Etown as #86 out of 2,018 colleges and universities in the country in our 2023 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 5% of all schools in the nation. Out of the 106 colleges in Pennsylvania, it is ranked at #10.

Our rankings are based on an outcomes-based approach rather than subjective ones used by other media outlets. As such, we utilize data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard, among other sources. Visit our rankings and methodology section to learn more.

Etown has also been awarded the following overall awards by our latest rankings.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#7	Best Associate Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#18	Best Graduate Certificate Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#36	Best Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#116	Best Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Program Level Awards

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

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#1	Best Human Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#3	Best Other Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#3	Best Rehabilitation Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#4	Best Social Work Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#5	Best Public & Social Service Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#7	Best Health/Medical Admin Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#11	Best Special Education Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#13	Best Curriculum & Instruction Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#18	Best Health Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#32	Best Education Master’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards Etown has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#6	Best Human Services Schools	College Factual
#6	Best General Human Services Schools	College Factual
#9	Best Healthcare Schools	Healthcare Degree Search
#60	Best Business, Management & Marketing Associate Degree Schools	College Factual
#93	Best Health & Medical Administrative Services Schools	College Factual
#196	Best Health Professions Schools	College Factual

Where Is Elizabethtown College?

Contact details for Etown are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	One Alpha Drive, Elizabethtown, PA 17022-2298
Phone:	717-361-1000
Website:	www.etown.edu
Facebook:	http://www.facebook.com/etowncollege
Twitter:	http://twitter.com/etowncollege

How Do I Get Into Etown?

You can apply to Etown online at: www.etown.edu/admissions/apply

Admission Requirements for Etown

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into Etown?

Etown has the high acceptance rate of 86%, which means it is fairly easy to gain admittance as long as you submit a complete application with requested materials.

Approximately 39% of accepted students are men and 61% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 85%, and the acceptance rate for women is 86%.

Average Test Scores

About 85% of students accepted to Etown submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 540 and 640. Math scores were between 540 and 640.

Etown received ACT scores from 13% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 18 and 27. Math scores were between 19 and 26. Composite scores were between 20 and 26.

Can I Afford Elizabethtown College?

The overall average net price of Etown is $17,772. 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 Etown, approximately 73% of students took out student loans averaging $10,558 a year. That adds up to $42,232 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Etown is 2.6%. 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.

Elizabethtown College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,688 undergraduate students at Etown, with 1,486 being full-time and 202 being part-time.

There are also 193 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 1,486 full-time undergraduates at Etown, 40% are male and 60% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	39
Black or African American	34
Hispanic or Latino	71
White	1,280
International Students	14
Other Races/Ethnicities	48

Geographic Diversity

Pennsylvania students aren't the only ones who study at Elizabethtown College. At this time, 22 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 29 countries are represented at Etown. The most popular countries sending students to the school are China, Vietnam, and Brazil.

Online Learning at Elizabethtown College

In 2019-2020, 1,340 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 52nd 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 Etown

During the most recent year for which we have data, the full-time undergraduate tuition at Elizabethtown College was $32,960 for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows how Etown 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
Marketing	#49	#49

Online Growth Rankings of Etown

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Elizabethtown College was 668.9%. This is the #130 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Etown regardless of major.

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

Major	1-Year Growth Rate
Health & Medical Administrative Services	10%
Health Professions	10%
Human Services	9%
Marketing	67%
Multi / Interdisciplinary Studies	6%

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at Etown 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 Etown.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Curriculum & Instruction	#1
Human Development & Family Studies	#1
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences	#1
Human Services	#3
Marketing	#4
Nursing	#9
Mental & Social Health Services	#9
Teacher Education Subject Specific	#10
Public Administration & Social Service	#12
Accounting	#14
Education	#19
Health & Medical Administrative Services	#27
Health Professions	#58
Business Administration & Management	#58
Business, Management & Marketing	#73

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%.

Elizabethtown College Undergraduate Concentrations

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

Major	Basic Certificate	Associate’s	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	TOTAL
Business Administration & Management	0	5	58	3	22	88
Other Health Professions	0	0	64	0	0	64
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	0	0	3	0	47	50
General Engineering	0	0	38	0	0	38
Communication & Media Studies	0	1	28	0	0	29
General Biology	0	0	20	0	0	20
General Psychology	0	0	20	0	0	20
Teacher Education Grade Specific	0	0	17	0	0	17
Computational Science	12	0	4	0	0	16
Teacher Education Subject Specific	0	0	13	0	0	13
Computer Information Systems	0	0	12	0	0	12
Political Science & Government	0	0	12	0	0	12
International Business	0	0	11	0	0	11
History	0	0	11	0	0	11
Human Services	0	2	9	0	0	11
Health & Medical Administrative Services	0	3	5	2	0	10
Accounting	0	0	8	0	0	8
Music	0	0	8	0	0	8
Ecology, Evolution & Systematics Biology	0	0	7	0	0	7
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	0	0	6	0	1	7
Special Education	0	0	0	0	7	7
Finance & Financial Management	0	0	6	0	0	6
Writing Studies	0	0	6	0	0	6
Social Work	0	0	6	0	0	6
Information Science	0	0	5	0	0	5
Computer Engineering	0	0	5	0	0	5
General English Literature	0	0	5	0	0	5
East Asian Languages	0	0	5	0	0	5
Mental & Social Health Services	0	0	0	5	0	5
Public Policy	0	0	0	0	5	5
Romance Languages	0	0	4	0	0	4
Liberal Arts General Studies	0	0	4	0	0	4
Criminal Justice & Corrections	0	0	4	0	0	4
Fine & Studio Arts	0	0	4	0	0	4
Biotechnology	0	0	3	0	0	3
Marketing	0	0	3	0	0	3
Germanic Languages	0	0	3	0	0	3
Philosophy	0	0	3	0	0	3
Chemistry	0	0	3	0	0	3
Economics	0	0	3	0	0	3
Sociology	0	0	3	0	0	3
Neurobiology & Neurosciences	0	0	2	0	0	2
Mathematics	0	0	2	0	0	2
Historic Preservation	2	0	0	0	0	2
Design & Applied Arts	0	0	2	0	0	2
Drama & Theater Arts	0	0	2	0	0	2
Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology	0	0	1	0	0	1
Public Relations & Advertising	0	0	1	0	0	1
Curriculum & Instruction	0	0	0	0	1	1
Applied Mathematics	0	0	1	0	0	1
Religious Studies	0	0	1	0	0	1
Business/Managerial Economics	0	0	0	0	0	0
Journalism	0	0	0	0	0	0
Radio, Television & Digital Communication	0	0	0	0	0	0
Teaching English or French	0	0	0	0	0	0
Human Development & Family Studies	0	0	0	0	0	0
Allied Health Professions	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nursing	0	0	0	0	0	0
Public Health	0	0	0	0	0	0
Behavioral Science	0	0	0	0	0	0
Health & Physical Education	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physics	0	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	14	11	441	10	83	559

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.