Alvernia University · Pennsylvania

Alvernia Merit Aid

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The merit-aid verdict at Alvernia

Alvernia offers merit awards tied to background, program involvement, and campus engagement for both incoming and transfer students.

Who this school is for

Best for first-year and transfer applicants with Catholic school backgrounds, specific achievements, or program involvement who want to explore all available merit options.

Tuition / cost of attendance: Approximately $69,630 for 2026-2027. Source

Federal cost and outcome data

Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Alvernia, what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.

Average annual net price by family income at Alvernia, academic year 2021-22
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$23,436
$30,001–$48,000	$23,701
$48,001–$75,000	$24,131
$75,001–$110,000	$28,016
$110,001+	$32,152
All income levels (average)	$28,138

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $45,000
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $28,138

That works out to roughly a 51% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $57,565 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Graduation rate (150% of normal time), 2016 cohort: 56%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 72%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $27,000 (~$286/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $55,055
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 42%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 96%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Alvernia's full student body.
Published tuition is the catalog sticker price for all students, not a Title IV-only figure.
Graduation rate reflects the entire first-time, full-time, degree-seeking cohort — not only students who received Title IV aid.
Retention rate reflects all first-time, full-time, bachelor's-seeking students — not only Title IV aid recipients.
Median debt reflects only completers who took out federal student loans — not Alvernia's full graduating class, and not limited to first-time, full-time students.
Median earnings reflect Title IV aid recipients who entered college and were working (not enrolled) roughly a decade later — not necessarily the graduating cohort, and not a recent graduate's paycheck.
Pell grant and federal loan participation covers first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students only.
Net price blends need-based aid and merit aid together — it is not a merit-specific estimate. It shows what similar-income families actually paid on average after every kind of aid, not what a strong-stats student could win in merit dollars alone. Treat it as cost context, not a merit forecast — a MeritPlaybook models merit aid specifically for your student’s own stats, which this net-price figure cannot do.

None of this is current-year data — the U.S. Department of Education reports it on a delay, and different figures below come from different reporting years. Net price is an academic year 2021-22 figure. Published tuition reflects the 2022-23 academic year. Graduation rate reflects the Fall 2016 entering, full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking cohort; completion measured within 150% of normal time (~6 years for a bachelor's degree). IPEDS Graduation Rates component (C150_4). Retention reflects the Fall 2021 full-time, first-time, bachelor's-seeking cohort retained into the following fall. IPEDS Fall Enrollment component (RET_FT4). Median debt reflects the NSLDS FY2020 and FY2021 pooled completer cohorts (GRAD_DEBT_MDN, GRAD_DEBT_MDN10YR_SUPP). Median earnings reflect the Treasury-matched cohort entering college in AY2009-10 or AY2010-11, earnings measured 10 years later in calendar years 2020 and 2021, inflation-adjusted to 2022 dollars (MD_EARN_WNE_P10).

Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard.

Institutional merit aid tiers

Every tier below is sourced to the school’s own published financial aid pages. Renewal terms apply only if the student maintains the stated GPA.

$23,000

Provost Scholarship

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GPA: 3.5

Alvernia Merit Aid

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Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Provost Scholarship

Dean Scholarship

Bernardine Scholarship

Veronica Founders Scholarship

Reading Collegiate Scholars Transfer Program

Legacy Award

Girl Scout Gold Award

Catholic School Award

Heritage Award

Boscov Scholarship

Trustees Scholarship

Transfer Scholarship

Visit Award

Presidential Scholarship

Theatre Award