University of
Valley Forge
Private College in Phoenixville, PA. Six-year graduation rate 49%. Median 10-year earnings $39,016.
Students who entered University of Valley Forge reach a median of $39,016 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. 49% 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
- ! Debt-to-income ratio 0.69 — elevated (above 0.60)
Admissions
61% of applicants get in, so the odds favor most reasonably prepared students. The applicant pool is small at 616, which makes year-over-year comparisons unreliable. About 28% of admitted students enroll, a yield in the normal range.
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 49%, meaning about one in two students who enroll leave without finishing. Retention of 78% 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. Transfer-out runs to 27% — common enough at this school that the completion rate is measuring a smaller group than the entering class. 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 471 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price after grant aid is $27,083 a year — mid-range for a four-year institution. Income makes less difference than usual: $30,614 at $0–30k, $32,981 at $110k+. 100% of students get grant aid averaging $7,713, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. 76% 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 · 96 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 | $30,614 |
| $30–48k | $31,228 |
| $48–75k | $32,077 |
| $75–110k | $33,146 |
| $110k+ | $32,981 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 358 of these 471 students, totalling $1,736,963 — an average of $4,852 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Chester County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
Heightened Cash Monitoring (Compliance Audit Late or Missing); School placed on Heightened Cash Monitoring
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)