{"admissions":{"act_25":20,"act_75":24,"admit_rate":42.5,"applicants":1323,"sat_25":930,"sat_75":1190,"source_year":2023,"submit_share":{"act_pct":9,"definition":"share of enrolled first-years who submitted a score (CDS C9)","sat_pct":41,"year":2023},"test_policy":"Test-optional"},"admit_by_major":null,"aid_policy":null,"at_a_glance":["Pacific Union College is a private nonprofit four-year college in CA. It admitted 42% of applicants (1,323 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.","Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 930\u20131190, ACT 20\u201324. 41% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, 9% an ACT \u2014 these ranges describe students who submitted, not the whole class.","Cost: about $41,008 a year on average with aid, $49,404 a year at full price.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $70,484 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $540,808 ahead with aid, $507,224 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing ($140,542); Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication ($77,121); Business/Commerce, General ($73,035).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 6% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 45% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","Nursing: freshmen enter as pre-nursing and apply into the program later; NCLEX-RN first-time pass rate 92.4% (2024/2025, California Board of Registered Nursing).","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/pacific-union-college.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Private nonprofit","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":41008}],"full_price":49404,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":41008,"npc_url":"https://puc.studentaidcalculator.com/survey.aspx","tuition_in_state":37173,"tuition_out_of_state":37173},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":70484,"median_6yr_after_entry":52713},"feeder_schools":null,"gpa":null,"ipeds_name":null,"majors_pages":[{"slug":"biology","title":"Biology","url":"https://highschoolreach.com/majors/biology"},{"slug":"business-administration","title":"Business Administration","url":"https://highschoolreach.com/majors/business-administration"},{"slug":"communication","title":"Communication","url":"https://highschoolreach.com/majors/communication"},{"slug":"nursing","title":"Nursing (BSN)","url":"https://highschoolreach.com/majors/nursing"},{"slug":"social-work","title":"Social Work","url":"https://highschoolreach.com/majors/social-work"}],"mobility":{"count":null,"k_median":50700,"kq5_cond_parq1":45.07,"mr_kq5_pq1":2.77,"par_median":96400,"par_q1":6.15,"tier":"Selective private"},"name":"Pacific Union College","ok":true,"payoff":{"definition":"ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost","net_gain_at_full_price":507224,"net_gain_with_aid":540808},"program_layers":{"nursing":{"college_name":"Pacific Union College","direct_admit":false,"direct_admit_note":"PUC's nursing pathway is a two-step model: entering students major in Pre-Nursing to complete prerequisites, then must be competitively admitted (minimum 3.00 GPA) into the separate AS Nursing Program before continuing on to the BSN; PUC's only other route to the BSN is the online RN-to-BSN completion program for already-licensed RNs. PUC's own nursing pages returned a Cloudflare bot-challenge (403) to direct fetch, so this is based on search-engine-indexed excerpts of the college's own site content rather than a page I could render and quote from directly.","direct_admit_quote":"The AS Degree in Nursing is the first step in a two-step path to completing a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN), and following completion of the AS Degree in Nursing, graduates may then continue directly on to the BSN.","direct_admit_source":"https://www.puc.edu/academics/departments/nursing-health-sciences","nclex_candidates":119,"nclex_pass_rate":92.4,"nclex_source":"https://rn.ca.gov/education/passrates.shtml","nclex_year":"2024/2025","program_name":"Pacific Union College","unitid":120865}},"slug":"pacific-union-college","state":"CA","top_programs":[{"cip_code":"5138","cip_desc":"Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.","cohort_size":36,"cred_desc":"Bachelor's Degree","credlev":3,"earnings_1yr":119258,"earnings_4yr":140542},{"cip_code":"0909","cip_desc":"Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.","cohort_size":3,"cred_desc":"Bachelor's Degree","credlev":3,"earnings_1yr":null,"earnings_4yr":77121},{"cip_code":"5201","cip_desc":"Business/Commerce, General.","cohort_size":12,"cred_desc":"Bachelor's Degree","credlev":3,"earnings_1yr":45439,"earnings_4yr":73035},{"cip_code":"4407","cip_desc":"Social Work.","cohort_size":10,"cred_desc":"Bachelor's Degree","credlev":3,"earnings_1yr":null,"earnings_4yr":61514}],"unitid":120865,"url":"https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/pacific-union-college"}