The Rockefeller University

Private nonprofitSpecial Focus: Other Health ProfessionsGraduate/Professional

Fin. Resilience

Resilience score

vs. 20 peers in its group

The Rockefeller University is a private nonprofit institution in New York, NY, classified by Carnegie as “Special Focus: Other Health Professions.”

It is benchmarked here against 20 peer institutions (All private nonprofit 4-year institutions).

On Ibex's Financial Resilience score it rates 5 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 endowment per fte student ($6.3M, 100th percentile).

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

Peer group

All private nonprofit 4-year institutions

20 institutions

No cross-metric risk flags triggered.

Policy & demographic exposure

How exposed The Rockefeller University 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

Elevated

Enrollment cliff (home state)

-27%

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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Financial Health Index

4.8

on a −4 to 10 scale

Financial Health IndexStable

NACUBO Composite Financial Index — the balance-sheet health score accreditors and institutional boards use to gauge financial health; bond-rating agencies track similar ratios. 72nd percentile of 20 peers.

Primary reserve 35%57.3 mo

Reserves vs. debt 35%2.62×

Return on net assets 20%-5.3%

Operating result 10%-13.7%

Composite of four ratios on a strength-factor scale (−4 weak → 10 strong): below 3 falls short of the threshold for financial health, below 1 signals acute stress, and above 6 is strong. Computed from IPEDS FY2022-23, the most recent finance release (it lags the current year by 2–3 years). Branch campuses that report finances at a parent/system level can show distorted ratios. For informational benchmarking, not a credit rating or financial advice.

Revenue composition

Where the money comes from $348.1M total revenue · IPEDS FY2022-23

Private gifts & grants is the largest single source at 47% of revenue.

Private gifts & grants47.2%

Government grants & contracts29.2%

Other revenue13.8%

Auxiliary enterprises9.2%

Investment return0.7%

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

5th percentile in peer grouppeer median $12,835

Instructional spend / FTE

Below peers

5th percentile in peer grouppeer median $17,293

Endowment (end of year)

Strong

$2.57B

100th percentile in peer grouppeer median $312.3M

Avg monthly faculty salary

Strong

$22,875

100th percentile in peer grouppeer median $7,251

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

Operating margin

Deficit

-25.9%

17th percentile in peer grouppeer median 0.6%

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

6th percentile in peer grouppeer median 12%

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

State appropriations share

83rd 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

15%

42nd percentile in peer grouppeer median 18.4%

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.

Months of operating cushion

Strong

57.3 mo

89th percentile in peer grouppeer median 9.7 mo

How many months of operating expenses the institution could cover from expendable reserves (IPEDS FY2022-23 primary reserve ratio × 12). About 5 months — one semester — is the accreditor benchmark for solid footing; below ~3 months is thin. A negative figure means expendable reserves are themselves negative.

Reserves vs. debt

Strong

2.62×

85th percentile in peer grouppeer median 1.32×

Expendable reserves ÷ plant-related debt (IPEDS FY2022-23 viability ratio). At or above 1.25×, reserves fully cover long-term debt. Shown blank when the institution carries little or no plant debt.

Return on net assets

Weak

-5.3%

28th percentile in peer grouppeer median 1.1%

Change in total net assets ÷ net assets (IPEDS FY2022-23) — whether the institution grew wealthier over the year. 2–4% is adequate; above 4% is strong.

Endowment per FTE student

Strong

$6.3M

100th percentile in peer grouppeer median $519,924

End-of-year endowment ÷ 12-month FTE enrollment — endowment wealth per full-time-equivalent student. The FTE-correct companion to endowment-per-undergraduate; FTE counts graduate and part-time load, so research universities look less wealthy on this basis than on a headcount basis.

Structural risk index

Elevated

— 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

410

58th percentile in peer grouppeer median 365

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%

— 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

Average

92.6%

64th percentile in peer grouppeer median 91.2%

Top fields of study (all levels)

The Rockefeller University’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	40	—	—	—	Low · 24
Biological & Biomedical Sciences	3	—	—	—	High · 100

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

How financially healthy is The Rockefeller University?

On the NACUBO Composite Financial Index — the −4 to 10 balance-sheet score accreditors and institutional boards use — The Rockefeller University scores 4.8 (Stable), computed from its IPEDS FY2022-23 finances. This is informational benchmarking, not a credit rating.

Which schools are The Rockefeller University's peers?

The Rockefeller University is benchmarked against 20 institutions in the All private nonprofit 4-year institutions peer group; all percentiles and medians on this page are computed within that group.

Compare with peers

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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.