Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania Business Programs

Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania is a public institution situated in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. The surrounding location of Shippensburg is ideal for students who enjoy the charms of a college town.

Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania Rankings

These rankings may look different from those published by other outlets, because we use an outcomes-based approach rather than a subjective one. We get our data from a number of places, including the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the College Scorecard. For more information, check out our rankings and methodology page.

Program Level Awards

These are highlights of some of the most noteworthy awards granted to specific programs at Ship.

Rank	Ranking Name	Share
#20	Best Value Entrepreneurial Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#24	Best Value Management Information Systems Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#29	Best Value Economics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#29	Best Value Finance & Financial Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#36	Best Value Marketing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#57	Best Value Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It
#92	Best Value Business Administration & Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools	Tweet It - Post It

Awards From Around the Web

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

Rank	Ranking Name	Source
#38	Best Value Colleges for Finance	College Factual
#39	Best Value Colleges for Management Information Systems	College Factual
#45	Best Value Colleges for Finance & Financial Management	College Factual
#48	Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Business Administration & Management	College Factual
#80	Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Business, Management & Marketing	College Factual
#83	Best Value Colleges for Marketing	College Factual

Where Is Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania?

Contact details for Ship are given below.

	Contact Details
Address:	1871 Old Main Drive, Shippensburg, PA 17257-2299
Phone:	717-477-7447
Website:	www.ship.edu/
Facebook:	http://www.facebook.com/ShippensburgUniversity
Twitter:	http://twitter.com/shippensburgU

How Do I Get Into Ship?

You can apply to Ship online at: www.ship.edu/admissions/apply/

Admission Requirements for Ship

Submission	Required?
High School GPA	required
High School Rank	required
High School Transcript	required
College Prep Program	required
Recommendations	recommended
SAT or ACT Scores	required
TOEFL	required

How Hard Is It To Get Into Ship?

With an acceptance rate of 94%, Ship is fairly easy to get into, but you must be sure to submit the required materials.

Approximately 44% of accepted students are men and 56% are women. The acceptance rate for men is 92%, and the acceptance rate for women is 95%.

Average Test Scores

About 87% of students accepted to Ship submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 470 and 580. Math scores were between 470 and 570.

Ship received ACT scores from 10% of accepted students. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, ACT English scores ranged between 15 and 22. Math scores were between 16 and 24. Composite scores were between 15 and 23.

Can I Afford Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania?

The overall average net price of Ship is $25,969. 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 Ship, approximately 80% of students took out student loans averaging $9,825 a year. That adds up to $39,300 over four years for those students.

The student loan default rate at Ship is 4.8%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.

Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate Student Diversity

There are 5,324 undergraduate students at Ship, with 4,733 being full-time and 591 being part-time.

There are also 806 graduate students at the school.

Gender Diversity

Of the 4,733 full-time undergraduates at Ship, 47% are male and 53% are female.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

The racial-ethnic breakdown of Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania students is as follows.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Grads
Asian	66
Black or African American	688
Hispanic or Latino	296
White	3,396
International Students	26
Other Races/Ethnicities	261

Geographic Diversity

Pennsylvania students aren't the only ones who study at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania. At this time, 11 states are represented by the student population at the school.

Over 29 countries are represented at Ship. The most popular countries sending students to the school are Saudi Arabia, India, and South Korea.

Online Learning at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

In 2019-2020, 5,485 students took at least one online class at the school.

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

This school is the 15th 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 Ship

The average growth rate over the last four years of online students at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania was 110.5%. This is the #327 largest growth rate of all schools that are only partially online. This refers to all students at Ship regardless of major.

The table below shows how the average growth rate over 4 years at Ship ranks compared to all other partially online schools that offer a specific major. Note that the majors may or may not be offered online at Ship.

Major	Growth Rate Rank
Finance	#9
Management Science	#11
Supply Chain Management	#12
Finance & Financial Management	#13
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods	#14
General Business Administration and Management	#147
Business Administration & Management	#183

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%.

Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania Business Concentrations

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

Major	Bachelor’s	Graduate Certificate	Master’s	TOTAL
General Business Administration and Management	78	2	78	158
Marketing/Marketing Management, General	73	0	0	73
Finance	59	0	0	59
Supply Chain Management	47	0	0	47
Accounting	29	0	0	29
General Management Information Systems	27	1	0	28
Organizational Behavior Studies	0	1	16	17
Entrepreneurship	11	0	0	11
General Economics	8	0	0	8
Management Science	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	332	4	94	430

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 Cgboeree under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.