Delaware County
Technical School-Practical Nursing Program
Public College in Broomall, PA. Median 10-year earnings $55,120.
Ten years after entry, the median Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program student earns $55,120 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $16,500, neither a bargain nor a burden.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.30 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
With an acceptance rate of 100%, Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program takes nearly everyone who applies. With 25 applicants, admissions statistics here move a lot on small changes. 100% of admitted students actually enroll, which is a high yield by national standards.
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
Academics
No six-year graduation rate is reported for this institution, which is common for schools whose students are mostly part-time, transfer in, or enroll in short programs that the federal cohort measure does not track. Its absence is not itself a bad sign, but it does remove the clearest completion signal. Retention is strong at 80%, and first-year attrition is where most degrees are lost. At 10:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. As a public short-program institution, the relevant comparison is other two-year schools rather than the national average across all institutions. At 176 undergraduates, expect a small, closely-held student body.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 176 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $21,891 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Income makes less difference than usual: $21,206 at $0–30k, $24,504 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 53% of students at an average of $5,034. 73% 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 · 55 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 | $21,206 |
| $30–48k | $22,881 |
| $48–75k | $23,004 |
| $75–110k | $24,201 |
| $110k+ | $24,504 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 128 of these 176 students, totalling $904,943 — an average of $7,070 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Delaware County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)