Philadelphia Technician Training
Private College in Philadelphia, PA.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
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. 58% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. The student-faculty ratio is 18:1 — typical, which in practice means large lectures early and smaller classes in the major. 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 · grant and loan rates against 1,229 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $22,570 annually once grants are applied. The gap between the $0–30k and $75–110k bands is narrow ($22,731 versus $28,663), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. Grant aid is widespread — 89% of students receive it, averaging $5,472. Most students borrow — 80% take federal loans to cover the gap.
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 · 623 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 | $22,731 |
| $30–48k | $21,812 |
| $48–75k | $25,025 |
| $75–110k | $28,663 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 986 of these 1,229 students, totalling $7,329,777 — an average of $7,434 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Philadelphia 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)