Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences Overview

Located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences is a private not-for-profit institution. PA College is located in a safe and convenient suburb.

What Is Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences Known For?

• Students at PA College have an easier time paying back their loans. The school's student loan default rate is only 1%, compared to the national rate of 10.1%.
• The doctor's degree is the highest award offered at PA College.
• For the <nil> academic year, 92% of the faculty were full-time.
• A student who earns a bachelor's degree from PA College makes roughly $61,157 a year. This is 50% more than their peers from other colleges and universities.

Where Is Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences?

Contact details for PA College are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	850 Greenfield Road, Lancaster, PA 17601
Phone:	800-622-5443
Website:	www.pacollege.edu

How Do I Get Into PA College?

You can apply to PA College online at: https://gopacollege.force.com/

Admission Requirements for PA College

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

How Hard Is It To Get Into PA College?

You'll need to do what you can to make your application stand out if you plan to apply to PA College. The school screens its applicants carefully and has a fairly low acceptance rate of 49%. So, don't just throw your admission packet together at the last minute!

Approximately 12% of accepted students are men and 88% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 62%, and the acceptance rate for women is 48%.

Can I Afford Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences?

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 PA College, approximately 68% of students took out student loans averaging $11,734 a year. That adds up to $46,936 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at PA College 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.

Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,670 undergraduate students at PA College, with 646 being full-time and 1,024 being part-time.

There are also 146 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 646 full-time undergraduates at PA College, 11% are male and 89% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	38
Black or African American	45
Hispanic or Latino	88
White	441
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	34

Geographic Diversity

Pennsylvania students aren't the only ones who study at Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences. At this time, 4 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Online Learning at Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences

There are 6 bachelor’s degree and 21 master’s degree programs available online at PA College. In 2020-2021, 1,133 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 70th 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 PA College

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences was 6.1%. This is the #1,514 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at PA College 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.