10-yr median earnings
$67,416
Federal aid recipients only
Private Nonprofit · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
La Salle University is a private nonprofit institution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Former students earn a median of $67,416 ten years after enrollment at an average net price of $19,409/yr — as a private nonprofit, published Scorecard outcomes cover federal-aid recipients at this campus — endowment and sticker price sit outside those cohort fields.
The verdict
La Salle University pairs top-10% former-student earnings with open admission.
According to the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard.
La Salle University is a private nonprofit institution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania enrolling 1,953 undergraduates, using College Scorecard institution data retrieved in July 2026. The acceptance rate is 96.6%. Federally aided former students who were working and not enrolled had median earnings of $67,416 ten years after entry. Average net price for the reported Title IV-recipient cohort is $19,409. This profile combines source fields with separately labeled PlainCollege comparisons and derived metrics.
Institution data retrieved July 2026; field-of-study data retrieved March 2026.
La Salle University operates as a private nonprofit institution located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (city: large), with a reported undergraduate enrollment of 1,953 students. Institution-level records in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) classify each school by Carnegie category, ownership sector, and urban/rural locale, which is how this profile's peer group and cost cohort are determined; La Salle University is categorized as "Doctoral/Professional Universities" under the Carnegie classification system, a meaningful signal when comparing like-to-like institutions.
Admissions and cost fields are IPEDS-derived values published through the Scorecard and retain their source reporting periods. 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; the income-band fields provide more context but still do not replace an institution's current net-price calculator.
Earnings use Treasury-derived records for federally aided former students who were working and not enrolled in the measurement year; the entry cohort includes completers and noncompleters. IPEDS completion and retention rates use separate first-time, full-time cohorts, so their denominator is not the earnings cohort. Read cost, completion, and earnings as distinct historical measures, not as a causal verdict or an individual forecast.
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.
Each axis is the percentile score shown in the breakdown at left; the shape shows this school's overall profile at a glance.
10-yr median earnings
$67,416
Federal aid recipients only
Avg net price
$19,409
After grants and scholarships
150%-time completion
57.5%
Full-time, first-time cohort
Four-year-institution cohort
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.
Where this school's former-student earnings fall within the full national distribution of every US college that reports to the College Scorecard, not just its peer set.
La Salle University: former-student earnings vs. every US college
10-year median earnings, College Scorecard
$67,416 Top 9% higher than 91% of 5,103 US colleges
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Source U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard · Mar–Jul 2026 retrievals
| Admission Rate | 96.6% |
| In-State Tuition | $37,800 |
| Out-of-State Tuition | $37,800 |
| Average Net Price | $19,409 |
| $0 – $30,000 | $16,545 |
| $30,001 – $48,000 | $17,393 |
| $48,001 – $75,000 | $20,557 |
| Over $110,000 | $27,190 |
Across 11 reported years between 2013 and 2023, the average net price here has ranged from $12,991 to $26,577 without settling into a rise or a fall. Comparing only the first and last years would read as -10.0%, but the years in between do not follow that line, so the honest summary is the range rather than a trend. Budget against the upper end, not the average.
11 reported years. Nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation.
Over the same years, enrollment went -53.1% (4,228 → 1,985 students).
Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, per-year fields (2013–2023). Net price is the average cost after grant and scholarship aid for federally-aided undergraduates.
Median earnings of program completers, College Scorecard field-of-study file
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing
$133,908 median earnings
Business Administration, Management and Operations
$120,754 median earnings
Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology
$113,093 median earnings
Finance and Financial Management Services
$113,038 median earnings
Accounting and Related Services
$101,144 median earnings
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing
$100,679 median earnings
Computer Science
$94,659 median earnings
Security Science and Technology
$93,485 median earnings
What this shows The highest-earning programs at a school are not necessarily its most popular ones - a small specialized program can post strong median earnings without reflecting the outcome most students here actually see.
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Other Private Nonprofit institutions closest in reported enrollment, preferring the same Carnegie classification.
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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.
What this means for La Salle University
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.