In accordance with PA Act 69, King’s College is committed to financial transparency. This information helps prospective college students and families make the most informed decisions when financially planning or evaluating college enrollment.
Cost of Attendance
Cost of Attendance provides a total estimate of the expenses you will accrue while enrolled at King’s College. It includes direct costs like tuition, housing, and meals, and indirect items like books, transportation, and personal expenses.
While King’s College will not bill students for indirect expenses, the Financial Aid Office will include them as direct costs when determining financial aid eligibility.
Our first-year students’ average out-of-pocket cost for 2024-2025 was $30,255 for resident first-year students based on a $67,255 total Cost of Attendance and the average financial aid package of $37,000. First-year commuter students’ average out-of-pocket cost for 2024-2025 was $20,266 based on a $57,266 total Cost of Attendance and the average financial aid package of $37,000.
Financial Aid Package Awards Requiring Repayment
Students must repay the following forms of financial aid:
Direct loans
Private loans
Students do not need to repay the following forms of financial aid:
Grants
Work study
King’s scholarships
Private scholarships
Tuition waivers
Mandatory Fees
The General College Fee is the only mandatory fee that King's College charges. The General College Fee funds various instructional, academic support, and student support services. The General College Fee also funds the acquisition, installation, and maintenance of technology and expenses associated with student engagement and campus activities. The business office charges the General College Fee to student accounts with semester tuition charges.
Total amount collected from the General College Fee in academic year 2024-2025: $3,208,293.
Amount allocated to instructional support expenses: $1,280,856.
Amount allocated to academic support and technology: $1,927,437.
Instructional support expenses include costs to enhance and extend the instructional activities of the class, for course credit both on and off campus, as well as costs associated with accreditation for our programs.
Academic support expenses include funds that support technology costs and funds used to support the operations of King’s College’s Student Success Center.
Previous Academic Year’s Tuition
Full-time undergraduate tuition for the 2024-2025 academic year was $42,000. Full-time undergraduate tuition for the 2025-2026 academic year was $43,000.
Graduate tuition for the 2025-2026 academic year was as follows:
Tuition and fees can increase each academic year based on economic conditions. Tuition has increased by an average of 2.5% each academic year between 2020 and 2025. Students can use this information to estimate their tuition cost for subsequent years: 2026-2027 undergraduate tuition at $44,075, 2027-2028 at $45,177, and 2028-2029 at $46,307. All estimates do not serve as projections; actual future tuition costs will vary from these estimates.
