Point Park University
Private College in Pittsburgh, PA. Six-year graduation rate 59%. Median 10-year earnings $45,856.
Students who entered Point Park University land at a median of $45,856 a decade later, close to what most four-year schools deliver. Six-year completion sits at 59%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Graduates leave owing a median of $27,000 — a substantial load to service on these earnings.
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
With an acceptance rate of 97%, Point Park University takes nearly everyone who applies. 5,279 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Only 10% of admitted students enroll — the great majority of admits go elsewhere or nowhere.
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
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Six-year completion sits at 59%, meaning about two in five students who enroll leave without finishing. 74% 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. 25% transfer out. IPEDS does not follow them, so whether they finished elsewhere is not recorded either way. The 12:1 student-faculty ratio is small enough that seminar-sized classes are the norm.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 2,270 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay an average of $26,502 annually once grants are applied. Income makes less difference than usual: $22,436 at $0–30k, $29,813 at $110k+. 95% of students get grant aid averaging $24,764, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 75% 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 · 518 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 | $22,436 |
| $30–48k | $22,064 |
| $48–75k | $22,362 |
| $75–110k | $27,325 |
| $110k+ | $29,813 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 1,692 of these 2,270 students, totalling $12,059,390 — an average of $7,127 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Allegheny 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)