Clarks Summit University

Admissions

With an acceptance rate of 90%, Clarks Summit University takes nearly everyone who applies. The applicant pool is small at 202, which makes year-over-year comparisons unreliable. About 36% of admitted students enroll, a yield in the normal range.

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.

IPEDS Admissions · 2024

Academics

Six-year completion sits at 57%, meaning about two in five students who enroll leave without finishing. Retention of 63% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. A 20% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. The 9:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm. Judge these figures against other institutions of the same type — sector explains more of the variation in completion than any single campus factor.

Financial Aid

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24

Students pay an average of $23,070 annually once grants are applied. Net price swings hard on family income here, from $17,711 at the $0–30k band to $26,284 at $110k+. 100% of students get grant aid averaging $18,019, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. About 39% borrow federally, roughly the national pattern.

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.

IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24