Universidad del Sagrado Corazon
Santurce, PR
Universidad del Sagrado Corazon is a private, Catholic university in Santurce, Puerto Rico, a large city, with 4,442 undergraduates. Communication and health professions are its signature fields: together they make up 53% of its bachelor's degrees, about four times their share across the colleges we cover. 52% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $31,754 ten years after starting.
Universidad del Sagrado Corazon admitted 1,943 of 3,638 applicants for the fall 2023 entering class (53.4%).
- Acceptance rate
- 53.4%
- Fall 2023 class
- Tuition and fees
- $6,410
- 2024–25 school year
- Paid after aid
- $12,924
- Average, students with aid
Every figure on this page is published by the college or a federal survey, compiled by GoodGoblin, and carries the source it came from. They describe the fall 2023 entering class, a read on the school, not a prediction about any one applicant.
What Universidad del Sagrado Corazon is known for
Measured by the 700 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.
Communication
33.0%
of its bachelor's degrees: about seven times the 4.5% share across the colleges we cover.
Health professions
19.6%
of its bachelor's degrees: about twice the 9.1% share across the colleges we cover.
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing13719.6% of degrees$66,971−25% vs $88,910 nationally
- Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication659.3% of degrees$31,189−51% vs $63,560 nationally
- Journalism618.7% of degrees$29,511−48% vs $56,278 nationally
- Radio, Television, and Digital Communication618.7% of degrees$23,283−54% vs $50,497 nationally
- Communication and Media Studies446.3% of degrees$32,023−43% vs $56,359 nationally
- Biology284.0% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), field-of-study data. Degrees are bachelor's degrees awarded in 2022–23. Earnings are the median for 2017–18 and 2018–19 graduates, in 2024 dollars, working and not enrolled, four years after graduating. Shares across the colleges we cover count every bachelor's degree at the colleges with a page here.
The place
Where it is, how big it is, and how students live.
Setting
Large city
Santurce, PR
Undergraduates
4,442
Fall 2024
Type
Private, nonprofit
Master's university, medium programs
Living on campus
Under a quarter
of undergraduates live on campus
Students per faculty member
21 to 1
Fall 2024
International students
0%
of undergraduates, fall 2024
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education), including the Carnegie Classification and the federal locale code it publishes.
What stands out at Universidad del Sagrado Corazon
Three things Universidad del Sagrado Corazon published, ranked by how much each could change what you actually do, not by how impressive it looks. Every one describes a class that has already enrolled.
Universidad del Sagrado Corazon reports that test scores are not considered at all.
That is the school’s own answer on the form it fills in every year. A score you send is not read as part of the decision here.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
The admit rate rose from 39% to 53% between fall 2018 and fall 2023.
Both ends are measured rates for classes that have already enrolled: a rate that moved, not a forecast. The fall 2023 figure is the one at the top of this page.
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2018 to fall 2023
Families paid $12,924 on average after aid.
Averaged across students who received federal aid: the price after grants and scholarships, not the sticker price.
Source: the College Scorecard
Every figure, in full
The same measured fields on every one of these pages. Nothing is filled in where the school published nothing.
Acceptance rate
53.4%
1,943 admitted of 3,638 applicants
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Where do you actually stand at Universidad del Sagrado Corazon?
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What Universidad del Sagrado Corazon costs
The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.
Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $6,410, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $19,728. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $12,924 a year on average.
Tuition and fees
$6,410
2024–25 school year
Full cost of attendance
$19,728
Tuition, fees, housing, food and books
Paid after aid
$12,924
Average, students who received aid
What students paid, by family income
Each bar is that figure as a share of the $19,728 full cost.
- Under $30k$12,027Typical public university: $10,013
- $30k–$48k$12,671Typical public university: $10,847
- $48k–$75k$15,196Typical public university: $13,703
- $75k–$110k$17,990Typical public university: $17,979
- Over $110k$19,478Typical public university: $22,475
Source: the federal College Scorecard. Tuition and cost of attendance are for the 2024–25 school year; colleges usually raise them each year. What students paid is the average net price for first-year students who received federal financial aid. Typical public university: the median across the 338 public universities on GoodGoblin, for in-state students, compiled by GoodGoblin from the same federal data.
Where it leads
Who finishes, who stays, and what they earn and owe afterwards.
Finish within six years
52%
Our colleges' median: 63%
Return for a second year
79%
Our colleges' median: 79%
Earnings after 10 years
$31,754
Our colleges' median: $57,440
Median debt at graduation
$16,250
Our colleges' median: $23,725
Source: the College Scorecard (U.S. Department of Education). Six-year completion describes students who started in fall 2018; second-year return describes students who started in fall 2023; earnings describe students who started in 2009–10 and 2010–11, measured in 2020 and 2021, in 2022 dollars; debt describes federal loans of students who graduated in fiscal years 2020 and 2021. Medians are across the 1,034 colleges with a page here.
How the rate has moved
Two measured admit rates from the federal survey, the years apart it reports them. A rate that moved, not a forecast.
Between fall 2018 and fall 2023 the admit rate rose from 39% to 53%.
What Universidad del Sagrado Corazon says it weighs
The school's own words, from the form it fills in every year. Ranked as it ranks them.
- Course rigorrequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- GPArequired
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
Not considered
- Essay
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Test scores
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Recommendations
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Class rank
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
- Legacy
Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023
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