Overview
As of March 24, 2025, S&P Global Ratings maintains 49 public ratings on Pennsylvania colleges and universities, the most in the higher education sector, including 44 private college and university ratings and five public university ratings. For fall 2024, these universities enrolled about 330,835 full-time equivalent students (FTEs), 173,834 for private colleges and 157,001 for public colleges. Compared with fall 2023, private colleges saw an estimated 2.5% decline in FTEs while public universities saw a roughly 2.8% increase.
24 Mar, 2025