Ponce Health Sciences University-St Louis

Private for-profitSpecial Focus: Medical Schools/CentersGraduate/Professional

Fin. Resilience

Resilience score

vs. 60 peers in its group

Ponce Health Sciences University-St Louis is a private for-profit institution in St. Louis, MO, classified by Carnegie as “Special Focus: Medical Schools/Centers.”

It is benchmarked here against 60 peer institutions (Special Focus: Medical Schools/Centers · Private for-profit).

On Ibex's Financial Resilience score it rates 99 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 instructional spend / fte ($26,381, 100th percentile).

Its weakest is operating margin (-92.5%).

Peer group

Special Focus: Medical Schools/Centers · Private for-profit

60 institutions

No cross-metric risk flags triggered.

Policy & demographic exposure

How exposed Ponce Health Sciences University-St Louis 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.

Enrollment cliff (home state)

-14.2%

Steep decline

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 $3.7M total revenue · IPEDS FY2022-23

Tuition & fees is the largest single source at 100% of revenue.

Tuition & fees100.0%

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

Strong

$47,792

98th percentile in peer grouppeer median $20,210

Instructional spend / FTE

Strong

$26,381

100th percentile in peer grouppeer median $6,042

Avg monthly faculty salary

Below peers

$5,956

19th percentile in peer grouppeer median $8,080

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

Operating margin

Deficit

-92.5%

3rd percentile in peer grouppeer median 8.9%

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

100%

100th percentile in peer grouppeer median 90%

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

Enrollment & Pipeline

12-month FTE enrollment

12th percentile in peer grouppeer median 497

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.

Enrollment cliff (home state)

Steep decline

-14.2%

— percentile in peer group

Projected change in the number of high-school graduates in the institution's HOME STATE from the class of 2025 (the national peak) to 2041, per WICHE's Knocking at the College Door, 11th Edition (Dec 2024). The 'enrollment cliff' is the post-2008 birth decline reaching college age; the U.S. total is projected to fall about 13% over this window. A college recruits from many states, so its home-state projection is an indicative directional signal of feeder-market pressure, not a forecast of that institution's own enrollment.

Student Outcomes & Risk

3-yr cohort default rate

Strong

1.4%

32nd percentile in peer grouppeer median 3.4%

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.

Full-time faculty share

Strong

66.7%

93rd percentile in peer grouppeer median 23.7%

Top fields of study (all levels)

Ponce Health Sciences University-St Louis’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
Biological & Biomedical Sciences	33	—	—	—	Low · 0

Earnings-premium status is an indicative estimate: median graduate earnings four years out vs the MO 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

Which schools are Ponce Health Sciences University-St Louis's peers?

Ponce Health Sciences University-St Louis is benchmarked against 60 institutions in the Special Focus: Medical Schools/Centers · Private for-profit 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.