Center for Advanced Studies On Puerto Rico and the Caribbean

Private nonprofitMaster's, Small ProgramsGraduate/Professional

Fin. Resilience

Resilience score

vs. 101 peers in its group

Center for Advanced Studies On Puerto Rico and the Caribbean is a private nonprofit institution in San Juan, PR, classified by Carnegie as “Master's, Small Programs.”

It is benchmarked here against 101 peer institutions (Master's, Small Programs · Private nonprofit).

On Ibex's Financial Resilience score it rates 41 out of 100 within that peer group, a transparent composite of endowment per undergraduate, net tuition revenue per student, and instructional spend per student.

Its strongest standing relative to peers is operating margin (12.2%, 79th percentile).

Its weakest is avg monthly faculty salary ($6,000).

Peer group

Master's, Small Programs · Private nonprofit

101 institutions

No cross-metric risk flags triggered.

Policy & demographic exposure

How exposed Center for Advanced Studies On Puerto Rico and the Caribbean is to the structural shifts reshaping higher ed: a composite structural-risk index plus the 2025 federal budget law’s endowment excise tax and Grad PLUS elimination and the demographic enrollment cliff. Only signals that apply to this institution are shown.

Structural risk index

Low

Grad PLUS exposure

14.6%

Low exposure

Higher than 43% of schools nationally

AY2025-26 YTD (through Q2, Dec 2025)

Avg Grad PLUS loan

$16,036

Half the cap+

Higher than 38% of schools nationally

AY2025-26 YTD (through Q2, Dec 2025)

Indicative signals, not forecasts — see each metric’s definition and the methodology. Endowment-tax and Grad PLUS figures appear only where the institution is actually exposed; “nationally” compares against all schools that report each signal.

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Revenue composition

Where the money comes from $1.8M total revenue · IPEDS FY2022-23

Tuition & fees is the largest single source at 49% of revenue.

Tuition & fees48.7%

Government grants & contracts48.7%

Other revenue2.6%

Where each dollar of revenue comes from, as a share of total positive revenue. Sources are standardized across public (GASB) and private (FASB) reporting; a net investment loss in a down market is shown as 0% and excluded from the mix.

Financial Health

Net tuition revenue / FTE

Average

$13,422

50th percentile in peer grouppeer median $13,484

Instructional spend / FTE

Below peers

$6,938

32nd percentile in peer grouppeer median $8,791

Avg monthly faculty salary

Below peers

$6,000

25th percentile in peer grouppeer median $6,886

Average monthly salary of full-time faculty, as reported to IPEDS.

Operating margin

Strong

12.2%

79th percentile in peer grouppeer median 2.1%

Net surplus as a share of total revenue (IPEDS FY2022-23): (total revenues − total expenses) ÷ total revenues. A surplus above 4% is strong; a thin surplus near 0% leaves little margin for shocks.

Tuition dependency

48.7%

43rd percentile in peer grouppeer median 50.8%

Tuition & fees as a share of total revenue (IPEDS FY2022-23). Higher = more exposed to enrollment swings.

Tuition discount rate

Moderate

5th percentile in peer grouppeer median 44.1%

Institutional grant aid as a share of gross tuition & fee revenue (IPEDS FY2022-23, FASB): allowances applied to tuition ÷ (net tuition revenue + those allowances) — the tuition-discount rate enrollment leaders track, i.e. the share of sticker tuition handed back as institutional aid. Private nonprofit institutions only; public (GASB) institutions report tuition differently and are not shown. The national private-college average is roughly 56% (NACUBO); above ~60% signals heavy price competition.

State appropriations share

97th percentile in peer grouppeer median 0%

State appropriations as a share of total revenue (IPEDS FY2022-23). Material for public institutions; ~0 for private.

Administrative cost share

30.5%

82nd percentile in peer grouppeer median 21.4%

Institutional support — central administration, executive management, governance, general administration, fundraising and (under FASB rules) operation & maintenance of plant — as a share of total expenses (IPEDS FY2022-23, FASB). Private nonprofit institutions only: public (GASB) institutions report functional expenses on a different basis and frequently consolidate large hospital and auxiliary operations, which makes a comparable ratio unreliable, so they are not shown. Because FASB folds plant operations into institutional support, this runs higher than a narrow 'central-office' figure, and schools with sizable hospital or auxiliary operations show a lower ratio as those costs enlarge total expenses. An informational benchmark of administrative intensity, compared within the peer group — not a measure of waste or quality.

Grad PLUS exposure

Low exposure

14.6%

— percentile in peer group

Share of the institution's graduate federal loan dollars (Grad Unsubsidized + Grad PLUS) that came from Grad PLUS — the program the 2025 budget law eliminates for new borrowers from July 1, 2026, alongside new caps on graduate borrowing. A higher share means more of the school's graduate students rely on borrowing that will no longer exist above the unsubsidized cap. Source: U.S. Dept. of Education / Federal Student Aid Direct Loan Dashboard — primarily award year 2025-26 (year-to-date through Q2, December 2025), the most current federal data; schools not yet reporting Grad PLUS in 2025-26 retain their most recent complete year (2024-25), shown per school. The reliance share is stable across the two vintages. Shown only for schools with Grad PLUS originations; an exposure signal, not a forecast of revenue loss.

Avg Grad PLUS loan

Half the cap+

$16,036

— percentile in peer group

Average Grad PLUS loan per recipient (FSA Direct Loan Dashboard — award year 2025-26 year-to-date through Q2, with 2024-25 full-year retained where 2025-26 is not yet reported). The 2025 budget law eliminates Grad PLUS for new borrowers from July 1, 2026 and caps unsubsidized graduate borrowing at $20,500/year — so this is the average per-borrower amount that will no longer be available above that cap. Paired with Grad PLUS exposure (the institution's reliance share), it is the depth axis of the Grad PLUS shock: how much each affected borrower stands to lose. Shown only where Grad PLUS was originated.

Structural risk index

Low

— percentile in peer group

An indicative 0–100 structural-risk index (higher = more pressure), an equal-weight blend of the stress signals we measure: thin or negative operating margin, low months of operating cushion, high tuition dependency, and a shrinking home-state high-school-graduate pipeline (enrollment cliff). Averaged over whichever signals are available (at least two required). It screens for the financial and demographic pressures that precede closures and mergers — a directional indicator, NOT a prediction that any institution will close, and not a credit rating.

Enrollment & Pipeline

12-month FTE enrollment

137

5th percentile in peer grouppeer median 1,208

Full-time-equivalent enrollment over the full 12-month year (IPEDS 12-month enrollment, 2022-23). Counts part-time students at their fractional load, so it runs above fall full-time headcount and is the denominator used for per-student finance measures.

Student Outcomes & Risk

3-yr cohort default rate

Strong

5.8%

33rd percentile in peer grouppeer median 6.9%

Share of borrowers who defaulted within three years of entering repayment (U.S. Dept. of Education official cohort default rate). Shown for the FY2017 borrower cohort — the most recent cohort whose full three-year default window closed before the 2020-23 federal student-loan payment pause. More recent cohorts are reported by the College Scorecard at essentially 0%, but that reflects the payment pause (no payments were due, so almost no one could default), not borrower health, so the pre-pause cohort is the last meaningful reading. Lower is better.

Top fields of study (all levels)

Center for Advanced Studies On Puerto Rico and the Caribbean’s largest fields by completions, with graduate earnings (4 years out) and debt benchmarked against the same field at its peer group. Sparklines show the 8-year completions trend.

Field	Completions / yr	Median earnings, 4 yrs out	Median debt	Earnings premium	Risk score
History	20	—	—	—	Moderate · 66
Social Sciences	15	—	—	—	Low · 0
English Language & Literature	14	—	—	—	High · 72
History	5	—	—	—	High · 100
English Language & Literature	3	—	—	—	High · 100
Area, Ethnic & Gender Studies	—	$47,725	—	Above benchmark +71%	Low · 2

All 1 top fields shown clear the PR state earnings-premium benchmark (indicative).

Earnings-premium status is an indicative estimate: median graduate earnings four years out vs the PR state median earnings of a high-school graduate (undergraduate credentials) or a bachelor’s-degree holder (graduate credentials) from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (2022 ACS 5-year). The official U.S. Department of Education determination uses its own cohort definition and may differ.

The risk score (0–100) is an indicative blend of earnings-premium margin and the five-year completions trend—higher means a field pays closer to (or below) the benchmark and is shrinking. A directional screen, not an official determination.

See the interactive dashboard for all fields and credential levels (associate through doctoral). Source: College Scorecard Field of Study.

Frequently asked

Are Center for Advanced Studies On Puerto Rico and the Caribbean's programs at risk under the federal earnings-premium test?

Indicatively, at Center for Advanced Studies On Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, the single largest field with available earnings data clears the PR state earnings-premium benchmark used by the 2025 federal test (effective July 1, 2026) — median graduate earnings (four years out) exceed those of a typical worker without the credential. This is an estimate using College Scorecard earnings vs ACS medians; the official Department of Education determination may differ.

Which schools are Center for Advanced Studies On Puerto Rico and the Caribbean's peers?

Center for Advanced Studies On Puerto Rico and the Caribbean is benchmarked against 101 institutions in the Master's, Small Programs · Private nonprofit peer group; all percentiles and medians on this page are computed within that group.

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Source: U.S. Department of Education — College Scorecard & IPEDS (most recent releases), with the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Employment Projections, field-demand outlook) and WICHE (enrollment-cliff projections). Figures lag the current academic year by roughly two to three years. Percentiles and medians are computed within the institution's peer group. Financial Resilience is a transparent composite — see each component above. Compiled by Ibex Insights.