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Keystone College Data & Information Overview

Great Price Value for Your Money
82% Acceptance Rate
11% Student Loan Default Rate
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How Well Is Keystone College Ranked?

#2,058 Best Colleges in Nation
#100 Best Colleges in PA
Applied Psychology Highest Ranked Major

2024 Rankings

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Overall Quality

Keystone College is ranked #2,058 out of 2,217 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2024 Best Colleges list.

Keystone College also holds the #100 spot on the Best Colleges in Pennsylvania ranking.

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Is It Hard to Get Into Keystone College?

82% Acceptance Rate
41% Of Accepted Are Women
12% Submit SAT Scores

Acceptance Rate

Keystone College has an acceptance rate of 82%, which makes it somewhat selective. Make sure it's not the only school you apply to, even if it's your school of choice. Whether you get in or not will largely depend on how you compare to other applicants.

Average Test Scores

About 12% of students accepted to Keystone College submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 450 and 590. Math scores were between 470 and 580.

SAT Reading and Writing Scores for Keystone College  ( 450 to 590 )
200
800

SAT Math Scores for Keystone College  ( 470 to 580 )
200
800
Keystone College received ACT scores from 1% of accepted students.

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Keystone College Faculty

13 to 1 Student to Faculty
23% Full Time Teachers

Student to Faculty Ratio

With a student to faculty ratio of 13 to 1, Keystone College is about average in this regard as the nationwide rate is 15 to 1. While this does not translate directly to class size, it's a good indicator of how much time professors will have to spend with their students on a one-on-one basis.

Percent of Full-Time Faculty

When estimating how much access students will have to their teachers, some people like to look at what percentage of faculty members are full time. This is because part-time teachers may not have as much time to spend on campus as their full-time counterparts.

The full-time faculty percentage at Keystone College is 23%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.

Full-Time Faculty Percent  23 out of 100
0
100

Retention and Graduation Rates at Keystone College

63% Freshmen Retention
35% On-Time Graduation Rate

Freshmen Retention Rate

The freshmen retention rate tells us what percentage of first-year, full-time students choose to continue on to their sophomore year at a particular school. The rate at Keystone College is 63%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 68%.

Freshmen Retention Rate  63 out of 100
0
100

Graduation Rate

The on-time graduation rate is the percent of first-time, full-time students who get their bachelor's degree with four years. At Keystone College this rate is 35%, which is about average when compared to the national rate of 33.3%.

On-Time Graduation Rate  35 out of 100
0
100

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Keystone College Undergraduate Student Diversity

1,012 Full-Time Undergraduates
25.3% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
52.5% Percent Women

During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,324 undergraduates at Keystone College with 1,012 being full-time and 312 being part-time.

How Much Does Keystone College Cost?

$25,268 Net Price
96% Take Out Loans
$27,148 Total Student Loans
The overall average net price of Keystone College is $25,268. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group. See the table below for the net price for different income groups.

Net Price by Income Group for Keystone College

$0-30 K $30K-48K $48-75 $75-110K $110K +
$25,001 $25,445 $26,212 $30,700 $36,700

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of Keystone College, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.

Student Loan Debt

While almost two-thirds of students nationwide take out loans to pay for college, the percentage may be quite different for the school you plan on attending. At Keystone College, approximately 96% of students took out student loans averaging $6,787 a year. That adds up to $27,148 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Keystone College is 10.7%. This is about the same as the national default rate of 10.1%.

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How Much Money Do Keystone College Graduates Make?

$38,525 Avg Salary of Grads
High Earnings Boost
Although some majors pay more than others, students who graduate from Keystone College with a bachelor's degree go on to jobs where they make an average salary of $38,525 in their early years. This is in the same neighborhood of the average college graduate's salary of $42,485 per year. However, certain majors may produce higher-paying graduates.

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Location of Keystone College

Pennsylvania State
1,012 Full-Time Undergraduates
Suburb Campus Setting
Keystone College is a private not-for-profit institution located in La Plume, Pennsylvania. The suburban atmosphere of La Plume makes it a great place for students who want the amenities of city life without actually living in the middle of a constant hustle and bustle.

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Contact details for Keystone College are given below.

Contact Details
Address: One College Green, La Plume, PA 18440-0200
Phone: 570-945-8000
Website: https://www.keystone.edu/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KeystoneCollege
Twitter: https://twitter.com/keystonecollege

Keystone College Majors

28 Majors With Completions
212 Undergraduate Degrees
27 Graduate Degrees
During the most recent year for which we have data, students from 28 majors graduated from Keystone College. Of these students, 212 received undergraduate degrees and 27 graduated with a master's or doctor's degree. The following table lists the most popular undergraduate majors along with the average salary graduates from those majors make.

Most Popular Majors Bachelor’s Degrees Average Salary of Graduates
Business Administration & Management 27 NA
Criminal Justice & Corrections 19 $27,666
Health & Physical Education 19 $29,294
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology 18 $26,297
Zoology 15 NA
Other Social Sciences 12 NA
Accounting 12 $37,202
Computer Information Systems 10 $36,718
Computer Science 9 NA
Fine & Studio Arts 9 $18,964

Learn more about the majors offered at Keystone College along with which ones have the highest average starting salaries.

Online Learning at Keystone College

51% Take At Least One Class Online
16% Take All Classes Online

Online courses area a great option for busy, working students as well as for those who have scheduling conflicts and want to study on their own time. As time goes by, expect to see more and more online learning options become available.

In 2020-2021, 629 students took at least one online class at Keystone College. This is a decrease from the 898 students who took online classes the previous year.

Year Took at Least One Online Class Took All Classes Online
2020-2021 629 201
2019-2020 898 125
2018-2019 660 118
2017-2018 654 97
2016-2017 542 130

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

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