by our College Data Analytics TeamIn its yearly rankings, College Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities to determine which ones are the best in a variety of categories, such as overall value, quality, diversity, which schools are the best for each major, and much more.
Pittsburgh Technical College was awarded 13 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is engineering technologies.
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Pittsburgh Technical College is ranked #780 out of 2,152 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2025 Best Colleges list. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Pittsburgh Technical College held the #872 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Pittsburgh Technical College is also ranked #46 out of 103 schools in Pennsylvania.
If you are worried about getting into Pittsburgh Technical College, don't be. The school has a liberal open admissions policy, which means you only need to meet basic requirements in order to be admitted. Still, be sure to submit a complete application and provide any other requested materials.
The student to faculty ratio at Pittsburgh Technical College is about average at 13 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.
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 Pittsburgh Technical College is 50%. This is comparable to the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 75% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Pittsburgh Technical College enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 1,559 undergraduates at Pittsburgh Technical College with 1,330 being full-time and 229 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $24,186 | $25,110 | $25,008 | $29,195 | $29,745 |
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 Pittsburgh Technical College, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
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 Pittsburgh Technical College, approximately 86% of students took out student loans averaging $8,201 a year. That adds up to $32,804 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for Pittsburgh Technical College are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 1111 Mckee Road, Oakdale, PA 15071 |
| Phone: | 412-809-5100 |
| Website: | www.ptcollege.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 100 | $42,933 |
| Computer Engineering Technology | 97 | $57,998 |
| Computer Software & Applications | 63 | NA |
| Nursing | 62 | NA |
| Culinary Arts | 57 | NA |
| Health & Medical Administrative Services | 53 | NA |
| Drafting & Design Engineering Technology | 47 | NA |
| Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants | 43 | NA |
| Precision Metal Working | 43 | NA |
| Other Homeland Security | 37 | NA |
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 2022-2023, 340 students took at least one online class at Pittsburgh Technical College. This is a decrease from the 402 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 340 | 188 |
| 2021-2022 | 402 | 209 |
| 2020-2021 | 415 | 231 |
| 2018-2019 | 409 | 160 |
Learn more about online learning at Pittsburgh Technical College.
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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