Portland Fashion Institute

Private nonprofitOther / Unclassified

Fin. Resilience

Resilience score

vs. 173 peers in its group

Portland Fashion Institute is a private nonprofit institution in Portland, OR.

It enrolls about 39 undergraduates and is benchmarked here against 173 peer institutions (Other / Unclassified · Private nonprofit).

On Ibex's Financial Resilience score it rates 4 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 first-year retention (100%, 100th percentile).

Its weakest is net tuition revenue / fte ($0).

Peer group

Other / Unclassified · Private nonprofit

173 institutions

No cross-metric risk flags triggered.

Policy & demographic exposure

How exposed Portland Fashion Institute is to the structural shifts reshaping higher ed: a composite structural-risk index plus the 2025 federal budget law’s endowment excise tax, Grad PLUS elimination, new Parent PLUS borrowing cap and new Workforce Pell short-term-credential opportunity, and the demographic enrollment cliff. Only signals that apply to this institution are shown.

Enrollment cliff (home state)

-22.2%

Severe decline

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

Turn these signals into action

Seeing exposure is step one. Ibex builds AI agents that monitor and act on exactly these pressures, explore an interactive demo. Live demos run real workflows; the rest are working mockups we build to your institution’s data.

AI Recruiter Agent

Financial Health

Net tuition revenue / FTE

Below peers

2nd percentile in peer grouppeer median $11,688

166 peers

Instructional spend / FTE

Below peers

$2,087

7th percentile in peer grouppeer median $11,423

166 peers

Enrollment & Pipeline

Undergraduate enrollment

30th percentile in peer grouppeer median 90

162 peers

Admission rate

80%

44th percentile in peer grouppeer median 86.8%

70 peers

First-year retention

Strong

100%

100th percentile in peer grouppeer median 78.6%

86 peers

Graduation rate (150% of normal time)

Strong

100%

100th percentile in peer grouppeer median 80%

87 peers

Share of first-time, full-time degree/certificate-seeking students who completed within 150% of the program's normal time (about three years for a two-year program), per College Scorecard. The two-year analogue of the six-year rate shown for four-year colleges.

Graduation rate (on-time)

Strong

100%

100th percentile in peer grouppeer median 61%

87 peers

Share of first-time, full-time degree/certificate-seeking students who completed within the program's normal time (100%), per College Scorecard. Reported for two-year and less-than-two-year institutions.

Pell recipient share

15th percentile in peer grouppeer median 41.6%

156 peers

Part-time undergraduates

68th percentile in peer grouppeer median 0%

2024-25160 peers

Share of undergraduates enrolled part-time (College Scorecard, FY2024-25). Context, not quality: a high part-time share is common at community and commuter institutions and affects graduation-rate comparisons, which are based only on full-time, first-time students.

Women (share of undergraduates)

71.8%

54th percentile in peer grouppeer median 67.6%

2024-25162 peers

Share of undergraduates who are women (College Scorecard, FY2024-25). Reported as context on the student mix, not a measure of quality.

Applicant-pool diversity shift

+6.2%

– percentile in peer group

WICHE 2024 (11th ed.)170 peers

Percentage-point change in the non-white share of the institution's home-state public high-school graduating class between the class of 2025 (the national peak) and 2037 (WICHE, Knocking at the College Door, 11th ed., public-school race detail). A forward look at who the future applicant pool will be: a positive value means the state's graduating class is projected to grow more racially diverse. Strategic recruiting context, not a forecast of any one school's enrollment, and a college recruits from many states.

Enrollment cliff (home state)

Severe decline

-22.2%

– percentile in peer group

2024-25170 peers

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.

Direct competitors within 100 mi

Average

49th percentile in peer grouppeer median 4

2024-25173 peers

How many institutions of the same type (same Carnegie classification and control, i.e. the schools competing for the same students) sit within roughly 100 miles. A higher count means a more crowded local market and a harder yield fight, which matters most as the regional pool of high school graduates shrinks; a low count means the school has its catchment largely to itself. Distance is straight-line from campus coordinates. Banded against the school's peer group. Fewer is better for recruiting leverage.

In-state HS graduates

42,752

11th percentile in peer grouppeer median 137,304

Class of 2025 (WICHE)170 peers

The size of the school's home-state high-school graduating class in 2025 (WICHE Knocking at the College Door, public and private combined). It is the near-term in-state feeder market, the complement to the enrollment-cliff projection, which shows the direction that market is heading. Context metric, not better or worse. Banded against the school's peer group.

Student body

Undergraduate race & ethnicity IPEDS 2024-25

White56.4%

Hispanic/Latino25.6%

Black10.3%

Asian7.7%

Undergraduate enrollment by race and ethnicity, as reported to IPEDS (College Scorecard). “International” denotes nonresident students; “Unknown” means race/ethnicity was not reported.

Student Outcomes & Risk

Share taking federal loans

31st percentile in peer grouppeer median 37.8%

156 peers

Frequently asked

How selective is Portland Fashion Institute?

Portland Fashion Institute admits about 80% of applicants.

Which schools are Portland Fashion Institute's peers?

Portland Fashion Institute is benchmarked against 173 institutions in the Other / Unclassified · Private nonprofit peer group; all percentiles and medians on this page are computed within that group.

Compare with peers

Circle in the Square Theatre School Studio Incamminati Cleveland Clinic Health System-School of Diagnostic Imaging Graham Hospital School of Nursing Washington Health System School of Nursing New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute

Explore Portland Fashion Institute interactively

Open the full dashboard to switch peer views, hover trends, and compare head-to-head.

Open in dashboard

Want a custom dashboard for Portland Fashion Institute?

We build tailored intelligence dashboards – Portland Fashion Institute and the peer set you choose, the metrics and risk signals your team cares about, kept current and delivered to you. Tell us what you’d want to track and a specialist will scope it with you.

Request a custom dashboard

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.