10-yr median earnings
Not reported
Federal aid recipients only
Private Nonprofit · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Curtis Institute of Music
Curtis Institute of Music is a private nonprofit institution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. as a private nonprofit, published Scorecard outcomes cover federal-aid recipients at this campus — endowment and sticker price sit outside those cohort fields.
- 4.6%
- Acceptance rate
- 95.6%
- 150%-time completion
The verdict
Curtis Institute of Music is a highly selective admit.
According to the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard.
- 4.6%
- acceptance rate
- 95.6%
- 150%-time completion
City: Large
Carnegie: Special Focus (4yr)
Institution data retrieved July 2026; field-of-study data retrieved March 2026.
How to read this Curtis Institute of Music profile
Figures above come from IPEDS institution records published through the College Scorecard (retrieved July 2026 for institution fields; March 2026 for field-of-study). Peer groups and cost cohorts follow IPEDS ownership sector, Carnegie class ("Special Focus Four-Year: Arts, Music & Design Schools"), and locale, not an editorial shortlist.
Average net price subtracts grant and scholarship aid from cost of attendance for full-time, first-time undergraduate Title IV recipients. It is a defined cohort average, not a personalized price; income-band fields add context but do not replace the school's current net-price calculator.
Earnings use Treasury-linked records for federally aided former students who were working and not enrolled in the measurement year (completers and noncompleters). IPEDS completion and retention use separate first-time, full-time cohorts, so those denominators are not the earnings cohort. Read cost, completion, and earnings as distinct historical measures, not a causal verdict or individual forecast.
College Value Score
A+
College Value Score
99/100
Curtis Institute of Music
A 6-metric composite of earnings, cost, and completion outcomes benchmarked against every reporting US college, not a ranking of teaching quality, campus life, or fit for any individual student. See the full methodology.
Earnings N/A
N/A
10-year median former-student earnings
Net Price N/A
N/A
Average annual cost after grants and aid
Completion Rate A+
95.6%
Completion within 150% of normal time
Debt N/A
N/A
Median federal debt at graduation
Loan Repayment N/A
N/A
Borrowers repaying loans within 3 years
Retention A+
100.0%
First-year students returning for year two
Each axis is the percentile score shown in the breakdown at left; the shape shows this school's overall profile at a glance.
Avg net price
Not reported
After grants and scholarships
150%-time completion
95.6%
Full-time, first-time cohort
150%-time completion vs portal median (57.1%) 95.6%
Four-year-institution cohort
College ROI Quadrant - Curtis Institute of Music vs peers
Each dot is a college plotted by 10-year median earnings (x-axis) vs average net price (y-axis), colored by completion within 150% of normal time. Bottom-right = high earnings/lower price; top-left = lower earnings/higher price.
Quick Facts
109
Undergraduate enrollment
4.6%
Acceptance rate
-
SAT average
95.6%
150%-time completion
-
10-yr median earnings
100.0%
First-year retention
How Curtis Institute of Music ranks in Pennsylvania
State rank among 270 reporting Pennsylvania colleges with College Scorecard data, a separate lens from the national distribution above.
| Metric | Curtis Institute of Music | State rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| 150%-time completion | 95.6% | #3 of 259 | 99th |
| Undergraduate enrollment | 109 | #203 of 282 | 28th |
Highest former-student earnings in Pennsylvania
| # | School | 10-yr earnings | Net price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine | $138,767 | - |
| 2 | Carnegie Mellon University | $114,862 | $31,944 |
| 3 | University of Pennsylvania | $111,371 | $28,699 |
| 4 | Lehigh University | $105,584 | $36,931 |
| 5 | Villanova University | $100,423 | $43,756 |
| 6 | Bucknell University | $93,807 | $40,766 |
| 7 | Lafayette College | $91,410 | $34,433 |
| 8 | Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia | $86,881 | $29,689 |
| 9 | Saint Joseph's University - Lancaster | $86,881 | $42,478 |
| 10 | Joseph F McCloskey School of Nursing | $86,138 | - |
| 11 | Drexel University | $84,648 | $38,509 |
| 12 | Swarthmore College | $80,257 | $23,149 |
Admissions
| Admission Rate | 4.6% |
Costs & Financial Aid
Tuition & Net Price
| In-State Tuition | $0 |
| Out-of-State Tuition | $0 |
Net Price by Family Income
0.9%
Pell Grant Rate
0.0%
Federal Loan Rate
What students pay at Curtis Institute of Music rose +981.5% since 2013
Average net price for the reported Title IV-recipient cohort went from $2,584 in 2013 to $27,946 in 2022, a rise of $25,362 in nominal dollars. Across the 49 colleges measured over the same 2013–2022 span, the median change was +24.3%.
10 reported years. Nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation.
2013 · $2,5842022 · $27,946
Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, per-year fields (2013–2022). Net price is the average cost after grant and scholarship aid for federally-aided undergraduates.
Student Demographics
Race & ethnicity
Student body at a glance
Outcomes
100.0%
Retention Rate
$31,201
Median Earnings (6yr)
Outcomes & debt snapshot
| Measure | Cohort / horizon | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Completion within 150% of normal time | First-time, full-time | 95.6% |
| First-year retention | First-time, full-time freshmen | 100.0% |
| Median earnings | 6 years after entry | $31,201 |
Programs & Earnings
No program-level earnings data available for this school.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the acceptance rate at Curtis Institute of Music? ▼
Curtis Institute of Music is a private nonprofit institution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The acceptance rate is 4.6%. Undergraduate enrollment is 109 students.
What is the graduation rate at Curtis Institute of Music? ▼
Curtis Institute of Music has a 95.6% completion rate within 150% of normal time at a four-year institution (typically six years for a bachelor’s program). The first-year retention rate is 100.0%.
Sources & methodology
Private-nonprofit profiles emphasize Scorecard cost-after-aid and completion alongside IPEDS Carnegie class. Endowment, gifts, and sticker price are not Scorecard fields on this page.
Figures are the Mar–Jul 2026 federal retrievals. Nonprofit campuses vary widely in aid practice — net price here is the Title-IV-recipient cohort average, not an individual award letter. Read the full methodology for how the data is sourced, computed, and verified.
- College Scorecard, U.S. Department of Education - former-student earnings, cost & completion (collegescorecard.ed.gov).
- IPEDS, National Center for Education Statistics - enrollment, admissions, Carnegie class & demographics (nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
- U.S. Treasury / IRS earnings linkage - median earnings 6 & 10 years after enrollment for federal-aid recipients (irs.gov).
- College Scorecard, Field of Study - program-level (credential) earnings & debt (collegescorecard.ed.gov).
- Federal Student Aid (Title IV / NSLDS) - U.S. Department of Education - net price, student debt & aid-recipient repayment outcomes (studentaid.gov).
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Nonprofit Scorecard medians describe federal-aid recipients who were working and not enrolled — they are not sticker-price ROI and not advice.
Every figure on PlainCollege is rendered directly from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard data, no number is typed in by an editor. Private-nonprofit profiles compile Scorecard net-price and earnings cohorts with IPEDS structure fields — no editor-typed figures. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error on this page. Review the public data changelog. Data current as of Mar–Jul 2026 retrievals.