by our College Data Analytics Team
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Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology was awarded 418 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is welding technology/welder.
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Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology is ranked #321 out of 2,217 schools in the nation for overall quality on College Factual's 2024 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 15% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology held the #605 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
Out of the 109 colleges in Pennsylvania, Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology is ranked at #19.
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Because it has a high acceptance rate of 89%, some consider Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology to be a safety school. But don't just assume that admittance is in the bag. Make sure to spend enough time on your application so that it is in tip-top shape.
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 Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, this ratio is 14 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
In addition to the student to faculty ratio, some people look at what percentage of faculty members are full-time as a sign of how much time professors will be able to spend with their students. This is because part-time teachers may not be be on campus as much as their full-time counterparts.
The full-time faculty percentage at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology has a freshmen retention rate of 74%. 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 1,227 undergraduates at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology with 1,204 being full-time and 23 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5,434 | $5,656 | $9,722 | $14,539 | $16,297 |
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 Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, approximately 56% of students took out student loans averaging $4,961 a year. That adds up to $19,844 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology is 10.4%. This is about the same as the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Contact details for Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 750 E King St, Lancaster, PA 17602-3198 |
| Phone: | 717-299-7731 |
| Website: | stevenscollege.edu/ |
Online learning options are becoming more and more popular at American colleges and universities. Online classes are great for students who have busy schedules or for those who just want to study on their own time.
In 2020-2021, 1,133 students took at least one online class at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology. This is a decrease from the 1,227 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 1,133 | 23 |
| 2019-2020 | 1,227 | 387 |
| 2018-2019 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017-2018 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016-2017 | 7 | 0 |
Learn more about online learning at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology.
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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