Albright College

Private · Moderately Selective · PA

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School data & stats

TypePrivate

LocationPA · Northeast

SettingUrban

Undergrads1,217

Student:faculty11:1

Outcomes

4-yr grad rate42.2%

6-yr grad rate50.7%

Drop-out rate38.3%

Study abroad—

Cost

In-state tuition$29k

Out-of-state tuition$29k

Application fee—

Community

Racial diversity55.8%

Gender diversity53.2%

International2.3%

IdentityUnited Methodist

Overview

Albright College is a small liberal-arts college in Reading, Pennsylvania, with historical ties to the Methodist Church. Its signature academic feature is structural flexibility — the curriculum is built to let students combine fields into self-designed interdisciplinary majors rather than choosing from a fixed list.

Academics

That interdisciplinary flexibility runs through Albright's whole approach: a student interested in business and psychology, or biology and art, can build a program reflecting both rather than picking one over the other. Pre-professional strength in the sciences and health fields sits alongside this flexible structure.

Campus & student life

The campus is compact and residential, on a scale where most students recognize each other across class years. Albright serves a diverse student body with a substantial share of first-generation college students, which shapes a campus culture focused more on mutual support than on legacy traditions.

Getting in

Albright's process reads applicants individually rather than by formula, with particular attention to students who show intellectual curiosity that does not fit neatly into one department — the interdisciplinary-major structure is a real feature of how the admissions office thinks about fit, not just a curricular footnote.

Worth knowing

Students who already know they want to combine two fields that do not obviously belong together should look closely at Albright's interdisciplinary-major process — it is a genuine structural feature, not a workaround students have to fight the system for.

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Admissions

Acceptance rate76.3%

Enrolled mid-50%—

Test policynot used

Rec letters0

Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)

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