Holy Family Is One of the Financially Healthiest Small, Private Colleges in the Philadelphia Region, A Standout as Many Others Struggle

The family in Holy Family is what attracts many students to the school, but there’s another ingredient that has contributed to its success. In an extremely competitive higher education market, where this year alone two colleges have closed in the Philadelphia area and several others are amid mergers, Holy Family has emerged as one of the fiscally healthy small, private colleges in the region. Holy Family fared the best financially of 13 small, private colleges assessed by Julee Gard, vice president for administration and finance at the University of St. Francis in Illinois, using the financial viability index she developed while obtaining her doctoral degree at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. She performed the analysis at the request of The Inquirer.