Albright College
Private College in Reading, PA. Six-year graduation rate 51%. Median 10-year earnings $58,700.
The median ten-year earnings figure of $58,700 sits near the national middle rather than at either extreme. The six-year graduation rate is 51%, meaning about one in two students who start do not finish. Median debt at graduation reaches $27,000, heavy enough to shape the years right after the degree.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
An acceptance rate of 76% puts Albright College on the accessible end — a realistic target for a broad range of applicants. 5,754 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. Only 7% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | — | — |
| SAT Math | — | |
| ACT Composite | — | — |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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51% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. Retention of 62% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. A 11:1 ratio points to small classes and accessible faculty. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor. This is a small school — 1,321 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,288 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price lands at $20,587 a year on average, neither cheap nor punishing. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $16,345 while those at $110k+ pay $24,947. Most students get help: 97% receive grants worth $22,150 on average. 75% of students borrow federally, so debt is the norm rather than the exception.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 344 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $16,345 |
| $30–48k | $16,892 |
| $48–75k | $19,741 |
| $75–110k | $21,355 |
| $110k+ | $24,947 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 971 of these 1,288 students, totalling $5,997,863 — an average of $6,177 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Berks County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Heightened Cash Monitoring (Financial Responsibility); School placed on Heightened Cash Monitoring
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)