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New Castle School of Trades was awarded 24 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is electrician.
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New Castle School of Trades is ranked #2,180 out of 2,217 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2024 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when New Castle School of Trades held the #2,205 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 109 colleges in Pennsylvania, New Castle School of Trades is ranked at #105.
New Castle School of Trades has an open admissions policy, so you should not have much trouble being accepted by the school. Still, it is important to fill out the application completely and submit any requested materials, which may include proof that you have a high school diploma or the equivalent.
The student to faculty ratio at New Castle School of Trades is about average at 18 to 1. This ratio is often used to gauge how many students might be in an average class and how much time professors will have to spend with their students on an individual level. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at New Castle School of Trades is 56%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
New Castle School of Trades has a freshmen retention rate of 75%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 606 full-time undergraduates at New Castle School of Trades.
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 New Castle School of Trades, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At New Castle School of Trades, approximately 50% of students took out student loans averaging $5,877 a year. That adds up to $23,508 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at New Castle School of Trades is 21.3%. Watch out! This is significantly higher than the national default rate of 10.1%, which means you could have trouble paying back your student loans if you take any out.
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Contact details for New Castle School of Trades are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 4117 Pulaksi Road, New Castle, PA 16101 |
| Phone: | 724-964-8811 |
| Website: | https://www.ncstrades.edu/ |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2020-2021, 560 students took at least one online class at New Castle School of Trades. This is an increase from the 0 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 560 | 0 |
| 2019-2020 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018-2019 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017-2018 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016-2017 | 0 | 0 |
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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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