PITC Institute
For-profit College in Wyncote, PA. Six-year graduation rate 31%. Median 10-year earnings $58,389.
Students who entered PITC Institute land at a median of $58,389 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Completion is the weak point: 31% graduate within six years. Median debt at graduation is $16,722, roughly typical for an undergraduate degree.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ Debt-to-income ratio 0.29 — healthy (below the 0.40 threshold)
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
- ! Graduation rate 31% — below national average
Academics
Only 31% finish within six years, so roughly two in three students leave without the credential. Retention of 62% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. That gap between coming back and finishing is where this school loses people — after the first year, not during it. At 28:1, instructor access is thin — worth probing on a campus visit. As a for-profit two-year institution, outcomes here deserve a harder look than the sector average suggests: for-profit institutions vary enormously, and the sector's aggregate numbers hide both strong and very weak performers.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 328 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Net price averages $28,276 annually, so cost is the first thing to weigh here. The gap between the $0–30k and $48–75k bands is narrow ($28,089 versus $28,768), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 50% of students receive grant aid, averaging $6,695 — common but not automatic. 50% 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 · 131 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 | $28,089 |
| $30–48k | $28,474 |
| $48–75k | $28,768 |
| $75–110k | — |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 164 of these 328 students, totalling $1,896,058 — an average of $11,561 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Montgomery County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026