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School-Shamokin Dam
For-profit College in Shamokin Dam, PA. Median 10-year earnings $25,073.
Ten-year median earnings of $25,073 are on the low side, which raises the bar for what this degree needs to cost. Graduates leave owing a median of $13,000 — modest by four-year standards.
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
Academics
The federal six-year graduation rate is not published here — typically because the entering cohort this measure follows is too small or too atypical to report. Treat completion as unknown rather than assuming either direction. 92% of full-time first-years return for a second year — a healthy figure. At 19:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. This is a for-profit short-program school. That is not disqualifying, but it does mean verifying accreditation, transferability of credits, and job-placement claims directly rather than trusting the category. This is a small school — 110 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 110 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $17,545 annually once grants are applied. Income makes less difference than usual: $16,179 at $0–30k, $21,339 at $110k+. Grant aid reaches 55% of students at an average of $5,233. 51% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
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 · 46 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 | $16,179 |
| $30–48k | $16,439 |
| $48–75k | $17,696 |
| $75–110k | $21,495 |
| $110k+ | $21,339 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 56 of these 110 students, totalling $430,600 — an average of $7,689 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Snyder County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026