Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Private nonprofitSpecial Focus: Medical Schools/CentersGraduate/Professional

Fin. Resilience

Resilience score

vs. 95 peers in its group

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute is a private nonprofit institution in La Jolla, CA, classified by Carnegie as “Special Focus: Medical Schools/Centers.”

It is benchmarked here against 95 peer institutions (Special Focus: Medical Schools/Centers · Private nonprofit).

On Ibex's Financial Resilience score it rates 1 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 avg monthly faculty salary ($17,775, 98th percentile).

Its weakest is instructional spend / fte ($0).

Peer group

Special Focus: Medical Schools/Centers · Private nonprofit

95 institutions

No cross-metric risk flags triggered.

Policy & demographic exposure

How exposed Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute 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)

-27.7%

Severe 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 $1.8M total revenue · IPEDS FY2022-23

Private gifts & grants is the largest single source at 55% of revenue.

Private gifts & grants54.7%

Government grants & contracts45.3%

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

Below peers

1st percentile in peer grouppeer median $20,254

Instructional spend / FTE

Below peers

1st percentile in peer grouppeer median $12,170

Avg monthly faculty salary

Strong

$17,775

98th percentile in peer grouppeer median $8,016

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

Administrative cost share

16.7%

28th percentile in peer grouppeer median 22.7%

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.

Enrollment & Pipeline

12-month FTE enrollment

2nd percentile in peer grouppeer median 492

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)

Severe decline

-27.7%

— 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

Full-time faculty share

Strong

95.7%

79th percentile in peer grouppeer median 62.7%

Top fields of study (all levels)

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute’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	6	—	—	—	Moderate · 50

Earnings-premium status is an indicative estimate: median graduate earnings four years out vs the CA 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 Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute's peers?

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute is benchmarked against 95 institutions in the Special Focus: Medical Schools/Centers · 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.