College profile
York College of Pennsylvania
PA · Private nonprofit · Mid-size suburb · 4,933 applicants 2023
A parent's read
- The payoff holds even at full price: roughly 4× over a decade. With no aid at all — the full ~$37,319/yr — a decade of median earnings (~$61,012/yr) still runs about 4× the four-year cost. This payoff doesn't depend on qualifying for anything.
- Ask the submit question deliberately. This college is test-optional — but at many such colleges, applicants who submit strong scores are admitted at meaningfully higher rates. “Optional” is a strategy decision, not a pass.
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Parent/student verdict
AccessibleAccessible for most applicants. Heavy discounting — among aid recipients average ~$18,556/yr net; strong students should also check the merit grid.
Best for
- Solid academic profiles — the admitted-student bands above are within reach for strong students
- Students drawn to Health Professions or Business, Management, & Marketing (the two biggest majors)
- Families wanting a small undergraduate experience
The reality
- You'd be near the bottom of their admitted class if: SAT below 1030, or ACT below 22, or unweighted GPA below ~3.50 (test bands are the school's own; the GPA floor is our estimate, not a published figure)
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Institutional snapshot
What kind of college is this?
43% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, 3% an ACT — these ranges describe students who submitted, not the whole class.
Source: federal IPEDS Admissions 2023 for scores + admit rate; federal College Scorecard (20260606 vintage) for earnings + outcomes. SAT/ACT bands are the 25th–75th percentile of enrolled submitters.
Outcomes & cost
What graduates actually earn, finish, and owe.
Federal College Scorecard data. Earnings are median annual income measured years after entering. Debt is for federal-aid borrowers only (cash-pay students aren't counted).
The real cost
What York College of Pennsylvania actually costs
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The payoffTen years of typical graduate pay minus four years of cost — how many dollars ahead a typical graduate runs by year ten. Check both the full-price and with-aid versions to see which applies to you; median pay reflects who a college admits and what they study as much as the college itself., both ways
+$461K ahead at full price +$536K with aidSource: College Scorecard (average net price among Title IV first-time, full-time undergraduates who received aid) and each college's published cost of attendance. We don't show the federal net-price-by-income brackets: their categories were fixed in 2008 and never adjusted, and none of the averages is your family's own number — the full story. Payoff = (10-yr median earnings × 10) − (4 years of cost), in dollars — how far ahead a typical graduate runs by year ten; medians travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college itself. Full price is the published cost of attendance; earnings are 10 years after enrollment, all majors combined.
What students study here
Most popular majors at York College of Pennsylvania
Top 5 fields of study by bachelor's degrees awarded (most recent IPEDS Completions). Use this to see what York College of Pennsylvania actually graduates — not just what it markets.
What those majors earn here
Median earnings 4 years after entry, by major — York College of Pennsylvania's own graduates, not national averages.
| Major (CIP) | 4-yr earnings |
|---|---|
| Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering. | $103,354 |
| Computer Science. | $100,044 |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | $91,052 |
| Mechanical Engineering. | $89,995 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | $79,444 |
| Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions. | $77,358 |
| Management Information Systems and Services. | $77,328 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | $69,548 |
| Marketing. | $69,407 |
| Biology, General. | $67,444 |
Sources: IPEDS Completions (C2023_a; bachelor's-level first majors, 2-digit CIP family — share is of the top 5 only) · College Scorecard program-level outcomes (PP-FOS). Full college-vs-major comparison: /college-outcomes →
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Feeder high schools
Which high schools send graduates to York College of Pennsylvania?
4 high schools publish a numbered matriculation list — where their graduates actually enrolled, counted, in the school's own School Profile — and name York College of Pennsylvania on it. Between them they printed 12 enrolled graduates. Ranked by graduates per class year enrolling at York College of Pennsylvania, from each school's own published list: the number that school printed, divided by the class years its list covers. The published total and the school's own years label are shown beside every school, so a one-year list and a five-year list can sit on the same page. A list whose class years we cannot read is not divided by a guess — it is listed below with its total instead.
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Counted from each school's own published document, linked on that school's page. A high school that is not here does not publish a numbered list we could read — that is all absence means, and it says nothing about its graduates. Where a school publishes both, the two lists are shown separately: an acceptances list is not a list of enrollments, and the two are never added together.
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At a glance
JSON · Using this page with an AI assistantYork College of Pennsylvania is a private nonprofit four-year college in PA. It admitted 94% of applicants (4,933 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.
Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 1030–1230, ACT 22–28. 43% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, 3% an ACT — these ranges describe students who submitted, not the whole class.
Cost: about $18,556 a year on average with aid, $37,319 a year at full price.
Median earnings ten years after entry: $61,012 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $535,896 ahead with aid, $460,844 ahead at full price.
Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering ($103,354); Computer Science ($100,044); Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing ($91,052).
High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name York College of Pennsylvania: 4, 12 enrolled students between them — ranked by graduates per class year, most often York Country Day School (0.6 per class year, 6 over 10 class years, The Classes of 2015-2024); Friends Central School (0.6 per class year, 3 over 5 class years, 2019-2023); William Penn Charter School (0.4 per class year, 2 over 5 class years, 2022-2026). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/york-college-of-pennsylvania.
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