Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences Overview

Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences is a private not-for-profit institution situated in Reading, Pennsylvania. The location of RHSHS is great for students who prefer living in an urban area.

What Is Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences Known For?

• Students who want to work more closely with their professors have an easier time at RHSHS since the student to facuty ratio is 7 to 1.
• The highest award offered at RHSHS is the undergraduate certificate.
• After graduation, RHSHS bachelor's degree recipients go on to jobs where they make $74,572 a year. That's about 83% more than their peers at other schools.

Where Is Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences?

Contact details for RHSHS are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1025 Old Wyomissing Road, Reading, PA 19611
Phone:	484-628-0100
Website:	reading.towerhealth.org

Admission Requirements for RHSHS

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	1
High School Rank	5
High School Transcript	1
College Prep Program	5
Recommendations	1
SAT or ACT Scores	5
TOEFL	1

How Hard Is It To Get Into RHSHS?

The acceptance rate at RHSHS is 13%, which means the school is highly selective when deciding who will be admitted and who won't. Even if you have great grades and test scores, that may not be enough. So be sure to look for ways to make your application memorable.

Approximately 8% of accepted students are men and 92% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 11%, and the acceptance rate for women is 13%.

Average Test Scores

About 83% of students accepted to RHSHS submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 460 and 530. Math scores were between 390 and 490.

Can I Afford Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences?

Student Loan Debt

While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At RHSHS, approximately 72% of students took out student loans averaging $6,776 a year. That adds up to $27,104 over four years for those students.

Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 307 undergraduate students at RHSHS, with 232 being full-time and 75 being part-time.

Gender Diversity

Of the 232 full-time undergraduates at RHSHS, 16% are male and 84% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	3
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	22
White	191
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences Undergraduate Concentrations

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

Major	Undergraduate Certificate	TOTAL
Allied Health Professions	66	66
Nursing	63	63
TOTAL	129	129

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.