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What's exceptional about Penn State-Greater Allegheny (ga.psu) ?

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less student dense; college type

Penn State-Greater Allegheny has the 5th-lowest local student density of the 703 public colleges.



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outdone by Fort Berthold Community College, Sitting Bull College, Inst. of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture, and Northeast Ohio Medical Univ.

Incidentally, all 5 enroll fewer than 1,000 students.

outdid Penn State-Shenango, West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, Penn State-College of Medicine, and Penn State-Dubois, and 694 others, ending with Arizona State.

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  1. The type of college is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics and combines public/private, profit/nonprofit, length of degree program, etc (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
  2. Student density refers to the total number of yearly for-credit students within a 5-mile radius, using enrollment data from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) and latitude/longitude data from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).

Profile

Penn State-Greater Allegheny is in Mckeesport, PA, is public, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

  • average full-time teaching salary ($66,344)
  • out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($19,912)
  • in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,356)
  • endowment per full-time student ($10,325)
  • average grant aid to undergrads ($8,173)
  • average undergrad student loan ($6,795)
  • cost of a shared room ($4,910)
  • undergrads who get financial aid (94%)
  • undergrads who receive student loans (83%)
  • in-state freshmen (80.1%)
  • full-time retention rate (75%)
  • undergrads who get Pell grants (57%)
  • ratio of female full-time freshmen (50.4%)
  • non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (49.1%)
  • minorities (32.3%)
  • Blacks or African Americans (27.6%)
  • average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.6%)
  • tuition & fees increase over three years (9%)
  • Hispanics (2.8%)
  • foreign students (2.3%)
  • Asians (1.8%)
  • American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
  • average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.6%)
  • 25th percentile SAT math score (380)
  • 25th percentile SAT reading score (380)
  • 25th percentile SAT writing score (370)
  • 75th percentile SAT math score (530)
  • 75th percentile SAT reading score (500)
  • 75th percentile SAT writing score (490)
  • alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
  • average January temperature (29.0 degrees)
  • dorm capacity (210)
  • first-year applicants (719)
  • foreign students (18)
  • members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
  • men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
  • Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
  • total 75th percentile SAT score (1,520)
  • yearly for-credit students (785)
  • on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.9)
  • students per faculty member (13)
  • annual rainfall (38.0 inches)
  • elevation (289 meters)

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