Commonwealth Technical Institute
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Overview
Commonwealth Technical Institute is in a small suburb with fewer than 100,000 residents. It is in the Johnstown PA area.
Highlights
Largest undergraduate program (23): Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management
Address
727 Goucher St
Johnstown, PA 15905
www.dli.pa.gov
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Institutional Control
Commonwealth Technical Institute is a public organization.
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Accreditation
Accreditation provides important oversight over a school's instructional practices and institutional stability.
Commonwealth Technical Institute holds an accreditation from one of the national accreditors. Credits earned from the national accreditors are often not accepted by schools holding the more prestigious regional accreditation, and it's important to verify that your credits will transfer if you are considering an eventual switch to another school.
Accreditation History
Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (Accredited May 31, 1987 - present)
  • The accreditation was recently renewed on December 5, 2017.
  • The next accreditation review is scheduled for October 31, 2022.
Undergraduate Students
Not all students attend their first college full time to completion. While some schools are focused on those that population, many schools focus on transfer and or part time students. What types of of student does this school support.
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Admissions
Open Admissions
Commonwealth Technical Institute is an open admissions school and accepts any student who applies.
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Admissions Details
Here are some important dates and little tidbits. Please double-check this information on the Commonwealth Technical Institute's webpage for the most up-to-date and accurate answers! We update this information with each school's annual reporting, but information can change unexpectedly. Select any item to view the details.
Admissions Criteria & Qualifications
Admissions Criteria & Qualifications
A high school diploma or GED is required, and an international baccalaureate is accepted.
Application Fee & Common App
Application Fee & Common App
Commonwealth Technical Institute has an undergraduate application fee of $0. We did not find Commonwealth Technical Institute on the Common Application site. Keep in mind that it never hurts to inquire with an Admissions office to see whether they might be willing to waive your application fee.
Freshman application dates
Freshman application dates
Commonwealth Technical Institute has a rolling admissions policy without deadlines. This school notifies applicants of acceptance as they process applications.
Transfer application information
Transfer application information
Transfer students can begin studies in fall, spring or summer.
Credits accepted from new students
Credits accepted from new students
Commonwealth Technical Institute accepts the following credits:
  • CLEP subject for transfers
  • Open admission (school accepts any student who applies)
  • Advanced placement (AP) credits
Programs
Commonwealth Technical Institute program offerings
What award level are you pursuing?
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Costs
Undergraduate out-of-state costs
Here's a quick summary of costs to attend Commonwealth Technical Institute. You will find the most up-to-date information at their website for admissions. The costs below are for out-of-state students, and you can switch by clicking the other button.
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Annual tuition
Miscellaneous (living off campus)
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Off-campus room and board
On-campus room and board
Per-credit charges
Cost
$150
$12,444
$7,588
$5,277
$5,859
$14,970
$14,274
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Net price: the best estimate for the cost to attend
Most schools publish tuition rates that give them room to offer both scholarships and financial aid where applicable. Your best estimate of what might pay is to see what others with similar family incomes have paid. A more tailored and accurate estimate is available at this school's net price calculator.
Understanding net price

With their net price calculators, many colleges and universities give an idea of what merit-based aid might accompany need-based aid. For schools that share such data, we also provide financial aid data in the Finanical Aid sections.

There are some caveats to consider when using the net price estimates:

  • The net price calculation is weighted by this school's proportion of students living on- and off-campus and this school's estimate of off-campus costs, which may cause the net price methodology be a bit inconsistent from school to school.
  • Parental income and student financial aid eligibility is sometimes more complicated than the simple family income number reported here.
  • The net price calculation for all students is inclusive of students who received any institutional or government aid, but at the family income levels the net price only considers the tuition paid by those who qualified for federal aid.

You can get a little better guess at what you would pay by using this school's net price calculator.

Percentage of students receiving any aid
The donut, based on 90 full-time first-time degree seeking students at Commonwealth Technical Institute, shows the percentage of those who received any financial aid (including merit-based scholarships), subdivided by family income.
39%
Aid type and family income
Federal: $0-30K
Federal: $30K-48K
Federal: $48K-75K
Federal: $75K-110K
Federal: Above $110K
Only institutional
Net price by family income
All Incomes
Let's look over the past few years at what in-state freshmen who received any financial aid actually paid for tuition, fees, books, and living expenses on average, and how that compares to the in-state tuition usually paid for other public universities in your context group.
20112012201320142015201620172018$0$10,000$20,000$30,000$40,000$50,000
Chart explanation
Commonwealth Technical Institute
On the blue curve, we see how the net annual cost to attend Commonwealth Technical Institute has changed over the years.
Context Schools
The shading shows the spread of the net price for the context schools. The dark shading shows the middle 50% of context schools, and the light shading shows all but the smallest and largest 10%.
Customize your context group using the gear at the top of the page!
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Financial Aid
Financial aid overview

Understanding the rules and process that determine who gets financial aid can be intimidating. Here are some quick links to help:

  • Visit Commonwealth Technical Institute's Net Price Calculator for the most accurate estimate of your anticipated costs. Every school publishes a Net Price Calculator that does its best to give you a fair estimate of what you might expect to pay. Many calculators consider your high school record as part of the calculation. This will be far more accurate than any of the averages or published tuition values that you see here.
  • FederalStudentAid, a government site that will walk you through the federal financial aid process. There are a number of kinds of student loans and other aid, and this site can walk you through all of the choices you will need to make.

Required Forms

FAFSA

Need-based Scholarships Available

Federal Pell Grants

Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants

State scholarships/grants

Athletic scholarships

International Students
Commonwealth Technical Institute provides need-based aid to international students.
Undergraduate Outcomes
Graduation Rate
All of the undergraduate students were full-time and were attending college for the first time. These students had an 8-year graduation rate of about 72% of.
72%
Time to complete
4 years
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8 years
Context: Graduation rate
These numbers reflect eight-year graduation rates for all degrees earned by full-time students who began as first-time freshmen at the colleges and universities in your chosen context group.
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Are students graduating on time?
Let us tell you all about low graduation rates!

Across the country, graduation rates are surprisingly low. In fact, Forbes Magazine suggests that they are unacceptably low. However, from another point of view, sometimes graduation rates simply reflect the relative preparation of the students who enter. Colleges with a mission to help people coming from less advantaged backgrounds, such as first-generation and low-income students, may have low graduation rates despite relatively strong outcomes for students who face many obstacles to success. Without the context provided in these views of completion rates, it can be tricky to separate predatory schools that take financial advantage of under-prepared students from those that are actively seeking to encourage and help those students.

For the consumer choosing a school, once you have narrowed your list to those schools that you can afford and that seem likely to admit you, consider the outcome measures in this section and choose the specific measures that best describe your plans. Very simply, schools with high graduation rates and high loan repayment rates will likely give you the best opportunity to succeed.

Context: the impact of wealth and transfer status on degree completion
We took a close look lagging success for students with financial need in a case study. Here's a chance to compare schools based on student successes with a better appreciation of how circumstances may impact success. One word of caution: the statistics for some categories may consist of only a handful of students -- see the details by hovering or long-pressing on the bars.
Full-time first-time students
Full-time transfer students
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Full-time first-time students
Percentage with Pell Grants
37%
Years after enrolling.
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Full-time first-time students who received an award within 8 years after enrolling
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Context and trends: Repayment Rate
How much progress do you think you'll be able to make towards paying down your college loans seven years after leaving school? In our research, we discovered that a surprisingly large number of students don't default on their loans, but also aren't making progress in paying down their principal amount. The percentages here count alumni who have decreased their loan amounts by at least $1.
Context and trends: are the loan default rates as small as possible?
The default rate is the percentage of students who are already delinquent on their loans within three years of leaving the school. If a school has a high default rate, that sends an alarm out that the students' educations are not sufficient to earn enough to repay those loans. Read below for details on the typical loan burden, and keep in mind that a low default rate may be more important than loan amounts in predicting your future success.
Loan burden
At Commonwealth Technical Institute, 0% of full-time degree-seeking freshmen receive federal student loans. We have much more details about the full loan burden students experience in our Cost and Financial Aid Section.
Context: Percentage of freshmen with federal loans
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Classroom Experience
Student attention at Commonwealth Technical Institute
Schools are required to report the ratio of students per instructor, but look for a small number of students for every full-time instructor as your best indicator of personal attention and a modern well-integrated curriculum.
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Full-time and long-term instructors at Commonwealth Technical Institute
Full-time faculty are mostly likely to be on campus and available for interaction, and to craft up-to-date courses and programs. Commonwealth Technical Institute has 100% full-time instructors, and 89% of the context schools have a lower percentage of full-time faculty. Faculty with multi-year contracts provide additional stability and commitment to the school and its students.Within the full-time instructors at Commonwealth Technical Institute, none have multi-year employment contracts. Of the context schools, only 31% have instructors with multi-year contracts.
Full-time instructors
100%
Long-term instructors
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Faculty Diversity
Here's an opportunity to explore the faculty's diversity. For many schools, attracting a diverse teaching faculty can be a challenge. It's important to judge their success with the reality check of what their peer schools have accomplished.
Number of full-time instructors
The chart shows male instructors to the left, and female to the right, with the races/origins included along the bars. Select the context graph to see how this diversity profile compares to the schools that interest you.
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Campus Safety
Disciplinary actions and crime at Commonwealth Technical Institute
Commonwealth Technical Institute employs the following safety measures on their campus: dorm entrances allow access only with key or security card and 24-hour patrol by trained security personnel.
Disciplinary Actions
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Liquor Violations
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Weapon Possessions
Arrests
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Context: Disciplinary Actions
Average number of disciplinary violoations at Commonwealth Technical Institute as a percentage of students compared to all of the schools in the comparison group.
0.8%0.3%0.1%0.0%0.2%0.4%0.6%0.8%1.0%Weapon PossessionsDrug ViolationsLiquor Violations
Context: Arrests
Average number of arrests at Commonwealth Technical Institute as a percentage of students compared to all of the schools in the comparison group.
0.41%1.51%0.00%0.00%0.50%1.00%1.50%2.00%Weapon PossessionsDrug ViolationsLiquor Violations
Criminal Offenses
20052010201520200123
Burglaries/Robberies
Sex Offenses
Vehicle Thefts
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Context: Criminal Offenses
Average number of criminal offenses at Commonwealth Technical Institute as a percentage of students compared to all of the schools in the comparison group.
0.000%0.000%0.273%0.000%0.000%0.100%0.200%0.300%Aggrevated AssaultsVehicle TheftsSex OffensesBurglaries/Robberies
Housing
No Student Housing Available
This school does not report any housing for students.
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Activities and Services
Activities offered
  • Choral groups
  • Drama/theater
Special academic opportunities
  • Credit for advanced placement
  • Orientation program
  • Remediation available
  • Services for learning disabilities
Undergraduate services offered
  • Health clinic
  • Personal/psychological counseling
  • Remedial services
  • Academic/career counseling services
  • Employment services for current students
Student Body
Study Types
Almost all students are full-time. No students take distance education courses.
Full-time
99%
Online classes
0%
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Context: Student body size
Commonwealth Technical Institute enrolled 371 students over the past academic year. The the student body size is near the middle of the context schools.
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Undergraduate student gender
Is the gender balance of Commonwealth Technical Institute students important to you? You can see the breakdown in this donut chart.
Gender
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Undergraduate student race/origin
Commonwealth Technical Institute reports that 14% of students are minority, which is less than 99% of the context schools. This school's 0 of international students is near the middle proportion of international students within the context schools.
Race/Origin
White
Black
Hispanic
Asian
American Indian
Not Reported
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Context: Gender Balance
It is very difficult for many types of schools to achieve a gender balance, and this context is valuable in evaluating the balance at Commonwealth Technical Institute.
75%25%0%20%40%60%80%100%MenWomen
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Context: Percentage of women
With 25% women students, Commonwealth Technical Institute has a lower percentage of women than 93% of context schools.
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Context: Student race/origin
Here is how Commonwealth Technical Institute compares to the rest of the context group in terms of diversity in the student race and origin.
9%73%3%1%1%14%0%20%40%60%80%100%Pacific IslanderMultiracialInternationalAsianAmerican IndianHispanicBlackNot ReportedWhite
Freshman residences

A high proportion of international and out-of-state students speaks to reputation and offers an opportunity for diverse interactions in and out of class.

Commonwealth Technical Institute has undergraduates from 4 states or territories.

Freshman residence
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Out-of-state
International
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Student age distribution
The age distribution at a school can tell you a lot about its mission. If you're looking for a traditional undergraduate experience, you may prefer to see students who are mostly younger than 25 (lighter shades), but if you want support as a returning student, a large number of students 25 and older (darker shades) may better suit your needs.
Age range
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School Finances
Commonwealth Technical Institute: What its budget can tell you about classroom quality
Where a school spends and collects its money can suggest a lot about the educational experience it offers. The tabs below offer a look at spending that is important for the quality of your experience if you attend.
Instructional spending
Student services spending
Context and trends: Instructional expenditures per student
Instructional expenses are primarily the salary and benefits paid to the heart of a school: its full-time instructors. High expenditures in this area suggest care in hiring enough highly qualified full-time faculty to provide personal attention and up-to-date subject-area excellence.
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Chart explanation
Commonwealth Technical Institute
On the blue curve, we see how the instructional expenses per student at Commonwealth Technical Institute have changed over the years.
Context Schools
The shading shows the spread of the instructional expenses per student for the context schools. The dark shading shows the middle 50% of context schools, and the light shading shows all but the smallest and largest 10%.
All values have been adjusted for inflation. Customize your context group using the gear at the top of the page!
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Does incoming revenue consistently cover expenses?

Commonwealth Technical Institute is a public school. Along with private not-for-profit schools, publicly-controlled schools do not have the goal of annual profit, but they do want to have healthy finances with adequate revenue to meet all expenses. On the other hand, private for-profit schools have creating a profit for shareholders as an annual goal.

Total revenue and expenses by category
We divided revenue and expenses for Commonwealth Technical Institute into categories to give some insight to what may have influenced peaks and ditches in the chart above. The purple shades correspond most directly to student education. The blue shades, auxiliary expenses and revenue, are often related to room and board. We show investment gains and losses in apricot.
200720082009201020112012201320142015201620172018$0$10M$20M$30MRevenue$0$10M$20M$30MExpense
Investment gains
Auxiliary revenue
Tuition and fees revenue
Government appropriations etc.
Other revenue
Investment losses
Instructional expenses
Student services expenses
Institutional support expenses
Other expenses
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The power of a large endowment
Related to the previous question of whether the annual revenue stream is stable is the question, "How deep are this school's pockets?" For many schools, a major source of annual income is investment growth. Schools with large endowments have a built-in revenue stream, although you'll see in the accompanying graphs that this revenue stream is highly dependent on the nation's economy. You can choose how to examine the depth of Commonwealth Technical Institute's resources by selecting from the buttons below.
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Net Assets
Net Assets Per Student

Here we examine assets at Commonwealth Technical Institute in context, and it seems most fair to adjust for the size of the institution. We examine the assets per full-time-equivalent student so that we level the playing field for size.

There's a catch to these assets, though. Many gifts to a school's endowment have strings attached; the money is restricted to a specific purpose. Assets shown in green below are unrestricted, and are very important to a school's ability to meet its financial obligations. Some assets are the land and buildings that a school must have in order to function, and these may appear as green (unrestricted assets) but are nonetheless less helpful in meeting annual financial commitments. This look at assets is only a piece of the puzzle as we decide if a school is stable.

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Context: 2019 net assets per student
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