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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was awarded 17 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is fine arts.
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PAFA was not ranked in College Factual's Best Overall Colleges report this year. This may be because not enough data was available.
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The acceptance rate at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is 84%. That's higher than the rate at many schools, but still low enough to be considered somewhat selective. If you want to get in, you'll need good grades and to be able to show that PAFA is a good fit for you.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to measure the number of teaching resources that a college or university offers its students. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1, but at PAFA it is much better at 4 to 1. That's good news for students who want to interact more on a personal level with their teachers.
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 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is 39%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has a freshmen retention rate of 84%. 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.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at PAFA for first-time, full-time students is 62%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 135 undergraduates at PAFA with 126 being full-time and 9 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $33,634 | $40,874 | $47,344 | $52,397 | $43,584 |
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 PAFA, 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 PAFA, approximately 61% of students took out student loans averaging $5,864 a year. That adds up to $23,456 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at PAFA is 9.3%. This is about the same as the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Contact details for PAFA are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 128 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102-1510 |
| Phone: | 215-972-7600 |
| Website: | https://www.pafa.org/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/PAFAcademy |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/PAFAcademy |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Fine & Studio Arts | 29 | $28,722 |
| Design & Applied Arts | 10 | NA |
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, 113 students took at least one online class at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. This is a decrease from the 187 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 113 | 15 |
| 2019-2020 | 187 | 94 |
| 2018-2019 | 13 | 13 |
| 2017-2018 | 8 | 8 |
| 2016-2017 | 9 | 9 |
Learn more about online learning at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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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