Where to Start Looking to Find a College in Delaware
Families looking for colleges in Delaware should start with the Delaware Higher Education Office website. While this isn’t a slick, student portal it does a fairly good job of providing relevant information with website links that work. The website has a listing of college planning events, Delaware institutions, and links to other useful resources. It is also where Delaware students apply for financial aid.
You can probably avoid clicking on most of the links by just downloading the Delaware Scholarship Compendium PDF. This 62 page publication provides an overview of financial aid, including sources and how to apply as well as a chart showing the value of a college degree. It has a section on choosing your college which lists questions to ask yourself as well as the college and factors on which to compare schools. Readers will find the usual college planning timeline but only for the senior year. The website provides a junior year checklist for downloading.
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The bulk of the document is the listing and description of scholarship programs, general and state specific. You can look up the scholarships by deadlines or alphabetically. The last section covers Delaware Financial Aid Programs including how to apply, incentive programs, and information on the Academic Common Market.
The other site you may want to visit is the College Loan Consultant. Users will find information on Delaware specific professional incentive programs with special loan repayment provisions. The website also provides a variety of loan calculators and financial aid information. It does not provide student loans for Delaware.
Some Numbers to Help You Find a College
Delaware has five four-year (public and not-for-profit) institutions with 500 or more full-time undergraduates. Three are private not-for profit colleges and two public universities according to the Integrated Post-secondary Data System. Of the 25,331 students, 22% attend private colleges and 78% attend public universities.
The average four-year graduation rate for private colleges was 24% and the average five-year rate for public schools was 54.5%. One university meets the DIY College Rankings 50-50 profile requirements.
The average SAT score for college-bound seniors in Delaware was 4456 for Critical Reading and 462 for Math. The 75th percentile scores were 530 for Critical Reading and 540 for Math. Of the three schools that reported SAT scores, only one had 75th percentile scores equal to or higher than the state average in both categories.
The top 20 colleges SAT test takers in Delaware applied to:
- University of Delaware
- Delaware State University
- Drexel University
- Pennsylvania State University
- West Chester University Of Pennsylvania
- University of Maryland College Park
- York College of Pennsylvania
- Wesley College Delaware
- Towson University
- Salisbury University
- Temple University
- West Virginia University Morgantown
- James Madison University
- Johns Hopkins University Center For Tale
- Delaware Tech Community College Owens Ca
- University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate
- Wilmington College Delaware
- Neumann College
- Virginia Polytech Institute State Univer
- University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh
List of Colleges in Delaware
In the following table, the four-year graduation rate is used for private colleges and the five-year rate for public colleges. The data are based on the data available from IPEDS in the fall of 2012 which are available on the DIY College Search spreadsheet.
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graduates
Grad
Rate
Admitted
75th%
Math
75th%
75th%
Price
Delaware State University Public 3466 34 43 470 470 20 12772
Goldey-Beacom College Private 512 35 75 18706
University of Delaware Public 16272 75 61 650 650 28 13376
Wesley College Private 1419 18 20 470 470 29245
Wilmington University Private 3662 19 13222
