by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics was awarded 14 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is mechanic & repair technologies.
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PIA was not ranked in College Factual's 2024 Best Overall Colleges report. This could be for a number of reasons, including lack of data.
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Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics 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 is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics, this ratio is 15 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
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 Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate is a sign of how many full-time students like a college or university well enough to come back for their sophomore year. At Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics this rate is 61%, which is a bit lower than the national average of 68%.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 567 full-time undergraduates at PIA.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $31,027 | $32,148 | $33,847 | $35,138 | $35,767 |
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 PIA, 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 PIA, approximately 82% of students took out student loans averaging $7,299 a year. That adds up to $29,196 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at PIA is 7.1%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.
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Contact details for PIA are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 5 Allegheny County Airport, West Mifflin, PA 15122 |
| Phone: | 412-346-2100 |
| Website: | www.pia.edu/ |
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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