King's College
Private College in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Six-year graduation rate 60%. Median 10-year earnings $59,498.
Students who entered King's College land at a median of $59,498 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. 60% finish within six years — respectable, though a meaningful share still leave without a credential. 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
King's College admits 93% of applicants — effectively open admission, so the application is a formality rather than a hurdle. 3,235 students applied in the most recent cycle — a mid-sized pool drawn mostly from the surrounding region. A 14% yield rate is low: the admitted pool is much larger than the entering class. The score bands below rest on the 24% of enrolled first-years who submitted an SAT score — a self-selected group, and not a cutoff.
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 | 540–650 | 103 (24%) |
| SAT Math | 530–620 | |
| ACT Composite | — | 4 (1%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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Completion is middling: 60% finish inside six years. 76% of full-time first-years come back for year two, so about one in four are gone before sophomore year. The two rates sit near each other: few students who return for a second year are missing from the six-year completion figure. At 13:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. This is a private nonprofit four-year college, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 1,588 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $23,689 annually once grants are applied. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $17,283 while those at $110k+ pay $28,391. Most students get help: 94% receive grants worth $30,671 on average. Borrowing is widespread: 75% take federal loans.
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 · 395 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 | $17,283 |
| $30–48k | $17,259 |
| $48–75k | $19,692 |
| $75–110k | $23,657 |
| $110k+ | $28,391 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,184 of these 1,588 students, totalling $7,805,370 — an average of $6,592 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Luzerne 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)