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College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program

Broomall, PA · Public · Certificate-granting · 48 undergrads · 100% admitted

Do students finish?
70% complete

Most students who start here finish.

For 2-year colleges this undercounts students who transfer to a 4-year school before finishing here.

What does it cost?
$22,365/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships.

What former students go on to earn

The middle 50% of students who received federal aid, measured 10 years after they entered (an earlier entering class — not a guarantee, and not limited to those who graduated). Earnings vary enormously by field of study.

$55,120 median, 10 yrs after entry
25th pct $35,831 median $55,120 75th pct $71,301

79% earn more than a typical high-school graduate (the dashed line above, $28,000 — a fixed, somewhat dated federal benchmark) ten years on.

Typical federal loan debt
$16,500
30% of one year's typical earnings here

This counts federal student loans only — not private loans, Parent PLUS loans, or family savings, so the true cost of borrowing is usually higher. And because students who drop out borrow less, a school where many students don't finish can show a deceptively low debt figure — read it next to the completion rate above.

What these numbers are — and are not

Every figure here is an institution-wide median from the U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard. It is not a prediction of what you would earn or owe — a computer-science and a fine-arts graduate of the same school can earn wildly different amounts, and your field of study matters more than your school. It is not a figure for any one program, not proof the school caused the outcome (selective schools admit students who would earn more anyway), and not a "best college" ranking. Earnings and debt cover federally-aided students.

→ The number that actually answers "worth it" is earnings by major . See Delaware County Technical School-Practical Nursing Program by field of study on the official Scorecard (this school's programs are below the Dept. of Education's reporting threshold here).

Also available: structured data (JSON-LD) · plain text · JSON. Source: U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard (2026-06-10 release). · school website