Chestnut Hill College Business Programs

Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chestnut Hill College is a private not-for-profit institution. The surrounding area of the school is a good match for students who enjoy city life.

Awards From Around the Web

The following table lists some notable awards CHC has earned from around the web.

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#8	Highest Paid Bachelor’s Degree Accounting and Business/Management Graduates	College Factual

Where Is Chestnut Hill College?

Contact details for CHC are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	9601 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19118-2693
Phone:	215-248-7000
Website:	www.chc.edu
Facebook:	https://www.facebook.com/ChestnutHillCollege
Twitter:	https://twitter.com/chestnuthill

How Do I Get Into CHC?

You can apply to CHC online at: www.chc.edu/apply

Admission Requirements for CHC

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	considered but not required
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	considered but not required
Recommendations	recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	required
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into CHC?

CHC has an acceptance rate of 71%, which means that is not quite as selective as some other schools. Still, you'll need good grades and a solid application if you want to be admitted.

Approximately 37% of accepted students are men and 63% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 69%, and the acceptance rate for women is 72%.

Average Test Scores

About 69% of students accepted to CHC submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 460 and 550. Math scores were between 440 and 540.

CHC received ACT scores from 0% of accepted students.

Can I Afford Chestnut Hill College?

The overall average net price of CHC is $42,750. The affordability of the school largely depends on your financial need since net price varies by income group.

The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.

Student Loan Debt

Almost 66% of college students who graduated with the class of 2018 took out student loans, but that percentage varies from school to school. At CHC, approximately 91% of students took out student loans averaging $7,888 a year. That adds up to $31,552 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at CHC is 7.5%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.

Chestnut Hill College Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 1,074 undergraduate students at CHC, with 938 being full-time and 136 being part-time.

There are also 454 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 938 full-time undergraduates at CHC, 42% are male and 58% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Chestnut Hill College students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	9
Black or African American	273
Hispanic or Latino	123
White	359
International Students	22
Other Races/Ethnicities	152

Geographic Diversity

Pennsylvania students aren't the only ones who study at Chestnut Hill College. At this time, 14 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 31 countries are represented at CHC. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Saudi Arabia, Belgium, and Spain.

Online Learning at Chestnut Hill College

In 2019-2020, 28 students took at least one online class at the school.

The following chart shows how the online learning population at CHC has changed over the last few years.

This school is the 58th most popular in Pennsylvania for online learning according to the online graduations recorded by the Department of Education for the academic year 2019-2020.

Online Growth Rankings of CHC

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Chestnut Hill College was 661.3%. This is the #106 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at CHC regardless of major.

When we speak of partially online, we are referring to schools whose online population is less than 50% of its total student body. Mostly online refers to those with online populations greater than or equal to 50%.

Chestnut Hill College Business Concentrations

The table below shows the number of awards for each concentration.

Major	Bachelor’s	TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management	27	27
Accounting	12	12
General Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration	5	5
Business/Corporate Communications	4	4
Accounting and Business/Management	3	3
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	3	3
Organizational Leadership	1	1
International Business/Trade/Commerce	1	1
TOTAL	56	56

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Image Credit: By Kiran under License

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