Bryn Athyn College of the New Church
About
Bryn Athyn College is a small, private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, founded in 1877. It focuses on a New Church approach to education, emphasizing rigorous academics alongside spiritual inquiry. The campus spans 130 acres and supports an average class size of 12 students with a student-faculty ratio of 8:1.
Admissions & acceptance rate
First-time freshman admissions: how selective the college is, and how many admitted students choose to enroll.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Pell recipients graduate at a higher rate than non-Pell students here — unusual and worth investigating.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 16 Title IV programs, 1 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 15 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing1 · 6.2%
- No Data15 · 93.8%
- Failing0 · 0.0%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Earnings premium gap
Graduate earnings versus the federal benchmark, worst gaps first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Middle States Commission on Higher Education
Action history · 6
- Mar 2025Probation or Equivalent or a More Severe Status: WarningMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
- Jun 2023Accreditation Reaffirmed: Warning RemovedMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
- Jun 2022Probation or Equivalent or a More Severe Status: WarningMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
- Feb 2020Approved for Distance EducationMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
- Feb 2020Grant Substantive Change: DegreeMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 142 students received $776K in Pell grants, alongside $1.4M in federal Direct Loans.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 73 borrowers who entered repayment, 0 (0.0%) defaulted within three years — below the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at Brynathyn
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Top program families by completions
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Athletics & Title IX gender equity
How athletic participation, aid, and spending are split between men and women.
Men vs women · spending splits
Sport-by-sport · 6
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Brynathyn vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Brynathyn selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectBryn Athyn College of the New Church | 68% | — | 255 | $19,600 | Baccalaureate |
Allen University | 13% | 72.5% | 610 | $11,081 | Baccalaureate |
American Jewish University | 44% | 96.0% | 424 | — | Baccalaureate |
Antioch University-Santa Barbara | — | — | 263 | — | Masters Colleges & Universities: Small Programs |
Bryn Mawr College | 82% | 29.4% | 1,679 | $40,690 | Baccalaureate |
Cabrini University | 51% | 69.2% | — | $24,051 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Medium Programs |
College of the Atlantic | 68% | 70.2% | 358 | $24,028 | Baccalaureate |
East-West University | 19% | 40.7% | 468 | $21,055 | Baccalaureate |
Gwynedd Mercy University | 65% | 89.6% | 2,017 | $27,141 | Doctoral/Professional |
Holy Family University | 60% | 71.0% | 3,225 | $12,251 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
La Salle University | 58% | 96.6% | 3,153 | $21,409 | Doctoral/Professional |
Manor College | 18% | 94.9% | 567 | $16,521 | Baccalaureate |
Martin University | 0% | — | 198 | $13,879 | Baccalaureate |
Northland College | 50% | 75.0% | 286 | $20,780 | Baccalaureate |
Providence Christian College | 20% | 100.0% | 168 | $25,378 | Baccalaureate |
Rosemont College | 54% | 76.3% | 781 | $20,356 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Medium Programs |
Soka University of America | 92% | 43.4% | 495 | $21,446 | Baccalaureate |
St. John's College | 71% | 55.2% | 583 | $27,934 | Baccalaureate |
Thomas More College of Liberal Arts | 63% | 89.6% | 97 | $21,511 | Baccalaureate |
Ursinus College | 73% | 91.8% | 1,502 | $30,485 | Baccalaureate |
Wells College | 41% | 69.6% | — | $22,921 | Baccalaureate |
| Peer group median | 56% | 73.8% | 495 | $21,446 |
Brynathyn Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
Part of the mission of Bryn Athyn College is to encourage and support scholarship and research. Bryn Athyn College particularly promotes the pursuit of research that engages with New Church thought.
Visit IR office page- Allyssa HampsonHead of Institutional Assessment and Effectiveness
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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