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Warner Pacific University

Portland, OR

Warner Pacific University is a private, Church of God university in Portland, Oregon, a large city, with 375 undergraduates. Health professions and kinesiology are its signature fields: together they make up 55% of its bachelor's degrees, about five times their share across the colleges we cover. 49% of students finish within six years, and former students who are working earn a median of $55,204 ten years after starting.

Warner Pacific University admitted 483 of 825 applicants for the fall 2023 entering class (58.5%).

Acceptance rate
58.5%
Fall 2023 class
Tuition and fees
$22,220
2024–25 school year
Paid after aid
$25,629
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 Warner Pacific University is known for

Measured by the 134 bachelor's degrees it awarded in 2022–23, and what its graduates went on to earn.

Health professions

44.0%

of its bachelor's degrees: about five times the 9.1% share across the colleges we cover.

Kinesiology

11.2%

of its bachelor's degrees: about four times the 2.6% share across the colleges we cover.

  • Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing5742.5% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
  • Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness1511.2% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
  • Biology118.2% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
  • Business Administration, Management and Operations118.2% of degrees$78,571+15% vs $68,257 nationally
  • Social Work96.7% of degreesToo few graduates to publish
  • Psychology64.5% 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

Portland, OR

Undergraduates

375

Fall 2024

Type

Private, nonprofit

Baccalaureate college, diverse fields

Living on campus

Half or more

of undergraduates live on campus

Students per faculty member

14 to 1

Fall 2024

International students

1%

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 Warner Pacific University

Three things Warner Pacific University 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.

Test policy1 of 3

Warner Pacific University 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

Trend2 of 3

The admit rate fell from 97% to 59% between fall 2018 and fall 2023.

Fall 201897%
Fall 202359%

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

Cost3 of 3

Families paid $25,629 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

58.5%

483 admitted of 825 applicants

Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023

Where do you actually stand at Warner Pacific University?

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What Warner Pacific University costs

The published price first, then what students who received aid actually paid, by family income.

Tuition and fees for 2024–25 were $22,220, and the full cost of attendance, with housing, food and books, was $38,948. After grants and scholarships, students who received financial aid paid $25,629 a year on average.

Tuition and fees

$22,220

2024–25 school year

Full cost of attendance

$38,948

Tuition, fees, housing, food and books

Paid after aid

$25,629

Average, students who received aid

What students paid, by family income

Each bar is that figure as a share of the $38,948 full cost.

  • Under $30k$18,577Typical public university: $10,013
  • $30k–$48k$27,432Typical public university: $10,847
  • $48k–$75k$23,495Typical public university: $13,703
  • $75k–$110k$30,169Typical public university: $17,979
  • Over $110k$32,393Typical 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

49%

Our colleges' median: 63%

Return for a second year

92%

Our colleges' median: 79%

Earnings after 10 years

$55,204

Our colleges' median: $57,440

Median debt at graduation

$25,000

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.

Fall 201897%
Fall 202359%

Between fall 2018 and fall 2023 the admit rate fell from 97% to 59%.

What Warner Pacific University 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

  • Essayconsidered

    Source: the federal IPEDS survey, fall 2023

Not considered

  • 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

Published deadlines

Each date is read from the college's own materials and re-checked on a schedule.

  • Rolling AdmissionJuly 29, 2027

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