UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing

Price against similar colleges

The average net price of $29,964 a year is $4,462 above the median of $25,502 across 95 private nonprofit colleges in Pennsylvania.

Price by family income

Families earning up to $30,000 paid $29,134 a year after grants, and families earning over $110,000 paid $33,877, a difference of $4,743: the lowest-income families paid 86% of the top bracket's price.

Debt against earnings

Graduates who borrowed left with a median of $18,487 in federal loans, 23% of the $79,452 median salary of former students ten years after they started. On a standard 10-year plan that is about $210 a month, 3% of a typical monthly salary.

Graduation against selectivity

It admits 78% of applicants, and 27% of first-time, full-time students graduate within 150% of normal time. Colleges admitting 75–100% of applicants have a median graduation rate of 55%, so it graduates fewer students than its selectivity alone would suggest.

Similar colleges: the median of 10 private nonprofit certificate schools in Pennsylvania with the same figures reported. Payback is illustrative: it ignores interest, taxes and living costs, and earnings vary by major. Check a loan payment against earnings.

The closest four-year colleges to UPMC Shadyside School of Nursing. Which credits transfer is set by each college and state agreement, so check with both schools before you plan a transfer.

• Carnegie Mellon University1 mi away · Pittsburgh, PA
• Chatham University1 mi away · Pittsburgh, PA
• University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus1 mi away · Pittsburgh, PA
• Carlow University2 mi away · Pittsburgh, PA
• DU
  Duquesne University3 mi away · Pittsburgh, PA
• PP
  Point Park University4 mi away · Pittsburgh, PA
• La Roche University9 mi away · Pittsburgh, PA
• PS
  Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Greater Allegheny10 mi away · McKeesport, PA