Your First-Year Costs
Below are the estimated costs of tuition, fees, and average room and board based on three quarters for the 2022–2023 academic year.
Tuition
$56,595
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Fees
$2,405
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Room & Board
$16,980
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In 2021-2022, the average net Tuition price* was
$20,563
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*Net Price is the tuition minus the average financial aid package offered to first-year students for 2021–2022.
*Net Price is the tuition minus the average financial aid package offered to first-year students for 2021–2022.
Financial Aid Awarded
Out of Our 2021–2022 First-Year Class5
Average grant aid award to first-year, full-time undergraduates entering in fall 2021
$34,203
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2021-2022 Financial Aid Investment for Undergraduate Students 5
Drexel Scholarships and Grants
$300 million+
Federal Work-Study Funding
$3 million+
Estimate the Cost of a Drexel Education
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Learn more about the Net Price CalculatorCo-op and Its Return on Investment
Understanding Co-op
Since 1919, Drexel's world-renowned cooperative education (co-op) program has prepared our students for the future. Drexel Co-op provides professional employment experience, giving students the opportunity to explore and build a career before they enter the workforce.
gross median six-month salary for a paid co-op experience
$19,000+
A majority of co-op positions are full-time and over 76% positions are paid.
94.7%
of Undergraduate alumni are working or enrolled in graduate or professional education.1
88%
of co-op employers would consider rehiring their co-op student for a future co-op or full-time position.6
44.9%
of co-op participants working full-time had received a job offer from a former co-op employer.1
An Education that Yields Results
One Year After Graduation:
Drexel graduates earn
12%
above the national average.2
One year after graduation, Drexel graduates earn
$63,417
as an average full-time annual salary.1
Drexel is ranked:
Top 3%
of U.S. Universities for Lifetime Earnings.3
Top 10
of Pennsylvania Institutions for Earnings.4
Footnotes referenced in the infographic on data sources:
- Report for spring 2020 Senior Exit and One-Year-Out Alumni Surveys for those completing a bachelor’s degree. Data reflect responses to One-Year-Out Alumni Survey and Senior Exit Survey, with an effective knowledge rate of 54.1%. Non-respondents to the One-Year-Out Alumni Survey that indicated affirmative plans for employment or graduate school (hired by a specific company or accepted to and planning to enroll in a specific graduate school) in the Graduating Senior Exit Survey are reflected in these results.
- National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) September 2021 Salary Survey.
- Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce, 2020. https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/roi2022/
- "College Scorecard" U.S. Department of Education, 2022.
- Facts and figures. http://www.drexel.edu/drexelcentral
- Co-op Student Evaluation, 2020.
- Drexel Office of Institutional Research, average cost of tuition minus average financial aid offered for first-year students, 2021-2022.