Chestnut Hill College
About
Chestnut Hill College is a private Catholic college in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The college was founded in 1924 as a women's college by the Sisters of St. Joseph. It was originally named Mount Saint Joseph College.
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 55 Title IV programs, 14 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 41 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing14 · 25.5%
- No Data41 · 74.5%
- 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.
Debt vs earnings
Median completer debt against median graduate earnings, highest burden first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Middle States Commission on Higher Education
Programmatic accreditations · 2
Action history · 17
- Nov 2025Renewal of AccreditationMontessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education · Montessori Education (MACTE) - Montessori teacher education programs and institutions
- Jun 2025Approved for Distance EducationMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
- Apr 2025Grant Substantive Change: OtherMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
- Apr 2025Grant Substantive Change: OtherMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
- Apr 2025Approved for Distance EducationMiddle 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, 502 students received $2.8M in Pell grants, alongside $11.6M 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 589 borrowers who entered repayment, 16 (2.7%) defaulted within three years — above 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 Chestnut Hill College
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 · 11
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
- On campus1
Includes 1 in residence halls (a subset of on-campus, not added to the total).
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.
Chestnut Hill College vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Chestnut Hill College 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectChestnut Hill College | 49% | — | 1,288 | $29,944 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Medium Programs |
Arcadia University | 67% | 80.2% | 3,404 | $25,866 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
Cabrini University | 51% | 69.2% | — | $24,051 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Medium Programs |
Elizabethtown College | 76% | 77.9% | 2,283 | $26,198 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Small Programs |
Elon University | 84% | 66.3% | 7,239 | $41,048 | Doctoral/Professional |
Juniata College | 74% | 78.9% | 1,321 | $27,663 | Baccalaureate |
King's College | 60% | 93.1% | 1,939 | $23,281 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Medium Programs |
Marymount University | 54% | 93.2% | 4,060 | $25,153 | Doctoral/Professional |
Marywood University | 72% | 60.6% | 2,530 | $22,222 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota | 66% | 92.8% | 4,505 | $21,034 | Doctoral/Professional |
Salve Regina University | 77% | 68.2% | 2,791 | $35,682 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
St Catherine University | 61% | 91.8% | 3,651 | $21,563 | Doctoral/Professional |
St Lawrence University | 79% | 54.3% | 1,991 | $30,561 | Baccalaureate |
Susquehanna University | 82% | 81.4% | 2,255 | $26,539 | Baccalaureate |
University of Scranton | 80% | 81.2% | 4,724 | $30,528 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs |
Wagner College | 65% | 88.0% | 2,001 | $27,733 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Medium Programs |
Wells College | 41% | 69.6% | — | $22,921 | Baccalaureate |
| Peer group median | 67% | 79.6% | 2,530 | $26,198 |
Chestnut Hill College Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
The page for the Institutional Research office at Chestnut Hill College provides basic contact information including a phone number and address. It mentions individuals, Regan Mulrooney and Sarah Logan, Ph.D., but offers no additional details. The page lacks explicit mission statements or specific URLs related to data resources.
Visit IR office page- Regan MulrooneyDirector, Planning and Assessment
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
Grants & funding (1)
Federal grant awards and open funding opportunities awarded to this institution.
Notable alumni of Chestnut Hill College (17)
A curated list of alumni recognized for notable achievements across industries.
- Kathleen Antonelli
- Kathleen Byerly
- Amanda Cappelletti
- Marie A. DiBerardino
- Meg Goetz
- Kathryn E. Granahan
- Elizabeth Penrose Howkins
- MJ Iraldi
- Joan Lunney
- Frederica Massiah-Jackson
- Margaret McKenna
- Mary Virginia Orna
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