Pennsylvania College of Art and Design

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Basic Information

Type Private

Geographical Reach Regional

Location Lancaster, PA

Population 500,000

Website https://pcad.edu/

Weather

Comfortable Days 110 (71%)

Sunshine Hours 2,293 (15%)

Days Without Precipitation 235 (27%)

Demographics

Total Undergraduates 390

Men / Women 29% / 71%

Racial/Ethnic

White 63%

Black 15%

Asian 5%

Mixed 5%

Hispanic 4%

Native American 2%

International 0%

Men in the Entering Class

Men

Entering Class by Race & Ethnicity

Native Asian Black Hispanic White International

Share of the full-time first-time degree-seeking cohort. Groups IPEDS reports separately — two or more races, and race unknown — are left out, so the lines don't sum to 100%.

Enrolled Undergraduates by Race & Ethnicity

Native Asian Black Hispanic White International

Share of all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates, not just the entering class. Same excluded groups as above.

IPEDS Admissions (2011–2024), Graduation Rates (2011–2024) and 12-month Enrollment (2020–2025) surveys. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line.

Schools & Majors

⇅	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
Pennsylvania College of Art and Design	40	38% / 62%	0%	$27,211	2	90%
Game and Interactive Media Design	7 —	43% / 57%	0%	$26,430	2	90%
Design	2 —	50% / 50%	0%	$26,430	2	90%
Fine Arts	8 —	0% / 100%	0%	$28,118	2	—
Graphic Design	7 —	71% / 29%	0%	$26,430	2	90%
Illustration	13 —	38% / 62%	0%	$26,430	2	90%
Photography	3 —	33% / 67%	0%	$32,342	3	—

Financial

Tuition & Fees $34,344

ROI Percentile 2th

Retention & Graduation

Full-Time Retention 85%

4-Year Graduation Rate 67%

6-Year Graduation Rate 68%

Transfer-Out Rate 0%

Six-Year Graduation Rate

Graduated

Students finishing within 150% of normal time. Each year labels the cohort that entered six years earlier — 2024 tracks the class that started in 2018.

Six-Year Graduation Rate by Gender

Men Women

IPEDS reports the cohort as men and women only.

Six-Year Graduation Rate by Race & Ethnicity

Asian Black Hispanic White

Each group's completers over its own share of the entering cohort. Groups making up less than 2% of everyone this college graduated over the period are left off — their rates swing on a handful of students and read as noise.

IPEDS Graduation Rates survey, 2011–2024. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line.

Earnings by Major Category

Each major category's degree-weighted estimated median 5-year earnings at this college, expressed as a z-score against the national degree-weighted distribution for that category. 0 is the national average. The shaded band between +1.28 and −1.28 marks the central 80% of the national distribution (10th–90th percentile).

Academics

⇅		%	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
Arts		82.5%	33	36% / 64%	0%	$27,377	2	90%
Computer Science		17.5%	7	43% / 57%	0%	$26,430	2	90%

Admissions

Uses Common App Yes

Acceptance Rate 46%

Yield (Unbound) 32%

Regular Decision Jan 1

Acceptance Rates

	In-State	Out-of-State	International
Regular Decision	46%	46%	46%

Acceptance & Yield

Acceptance Yield

Applicants, Admitted & Enrolled

Applicants Admitted Enrolled

IPEDS Admissions survey, 2011–2024. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line.

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