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URBE University

Sweetwater, FL · official site ↗

Private for-profitOther / Unclassified
27
Fin. Resilience
Resilience score

vs. 28 peers in its group

URBE University is a private for-profit institution in Sweetwater, FL.

It enrolls about 33 undergraduates and is benchmarked here against 28 peer institutions (Other / Unclassified · Private for-profit).

On Ibex's Financial Resilience score it rates 27 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 (71.4%, 72nd percentile).

Its weakest is net tuition revenue / fte ($5,963).

Peer group

Other / Unclassified · Private for-profit

28 institutions

No cross-metric risk flags triggered.
Policy & demographic exposure

How exposed URBE 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.

Enrollment cliff (home state)Projected change in the institution's home-state high-school graduates from 2025 to 2041 (WICHE). The U.S. total falls about 13%; a directional feeder-market signal, not an enrollment forecast.
5.3%
Stable or growing

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 $2.2M total revenue · IPEDS FY2022-23

Private gifts & grants is the largest single source at 84% of revenue.

Private gifts & grants84.1%
Tuition & fees11.1%
Investment return4.8%

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 / FTETuition revenue per full-time-equivalent student after institutional aid/discounts — what tuition actually nets.
Below peers
$5,963
8th percentile in peer grouppeer median $20,654
Instructional spend / FTESpending on instruction per FTE student — how much of the budget reaches the classroom.
Average
$6,736
46th percentile in peer grouppeer median $6,813
In-state tuition & feesPublished in-state tuition and fees before aid (sticker price).
$30,550
92nd percentile in peer grouppeer median $23,874
Out-of-state tuition & feesPublished out-of-state tuition and fees before aid (sticker price).
$30,550
92nd percentile in peer grouppeer median $23,874
Operating marginNet surplus as a share of total revenue — whether the institution runs in the black.
Thin
2.6%
— percentile in peer group
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 dependencyTuition's share of total revenue — how exposed the budget is to enrollment swings.
11.1%
— percentile in peer group
Tuition & fees as a share of total revenue (IPEDS FY2022-23). Higher = more exposed to enrollment swings.
Graduation & completion
Graduation rate · first-time, full-time
80%

80% graduate within 6 years (150% of normal time)
0% on-time, within 4 years (100%)
Counts only students who entered full-time as first-time freshmen and earned a bachelor's here — the conventional headline rate. Excludes part-time entrants and transfer-ins.

Completion rate · all students
83.3%

83.3% earned a degree or certificate within 8 years (IPEDS Outcome Measures)
The broader cohort — also counts part-time entrants and transfer-ins, and any credential. More inclusive, so it can run higher than the graduation rate.

Why two numbers? They measure different students over different windows, so they are not directly comparable. The graduation rate is the standard federal headline but tracks only first-time, full-time students through a bachelor's; the all-students completion rate adds the part-time and transfer students it leaves out, over a longer window. Read each for what it covers. Source: U.S. Department of Education — IPEDS Graduation Rates & Outcome Measures, via College Scorecard.

Enrollment & Pipeline
Undergraduate enrollmentNumber of degree-seeking undergraduates (IPEDS fall headcount). A size measure, not a quality signal.
33
8th percentile in peer grouppeer median 334
First-year retentionShare of first-time, full-time freshmen who return for a second year — an early signal of student fit and support.
Strong
71.4%
72nd percentile in peer grouppeer median 59.2%
Graduation rate (6-yr · first-time, full-time)Of first-time, full-time freshmen, the share who earn a bachelor's at this institution within six years (150% of normal time) — the conventional headline graduation rate. It counts only first-time, full-time students and excludes part-time entrants and transfer-ins, who are captured instead by the all-students completion rate.
Strong
80%
67th percentile in peer grouppeer median 80%
Graduation rate (4-yr on-time · first-time, full-time)Of first-time, full-time freshmen, the share who earn a bachelor's within four years (100% of normal time) — the 'on-time' rate. It runs well below the six-year rate because many students take a fifth or sixth year; same first-time, full-time cohort as the six-year rate.
Strong
0%
67th percentile in peer grouppeer median 0%
Pell recipient shareShare of undergraduates on a federal Pell Grant — a proxy for the share from lower-income families.
0%
9th percentile in peer grouppeer median 60.5%
Student-faculty ratioStudents per instructional faculty member — lower usually means smaller classes and more contact.
4:1
5th percentile in peer grouppeer median 20:1
Students per instructional faculty member (IPEDS, fall 2023). Lower generally means smaller classes and more faculty contact, though the measure mixes undergraduate and graduate teaching and is institution-reported.
Enrollment cliff (home state)Projected change in the institution's home-state high-school graduates from 2025 to 2041 (WICHE). The U.S. total falls about 13%; a directional feeder-market signal, not an enrollment forecast.
Stable or growing
5.3%
— 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.
Completion rate (all students · 8-yr)Of ALL entering degree-seeking undergraduates — full- and part-time, first-time and transfer-in — the share who earned a degree or certificate at this institution within eight years (IPEDS Outcome Measures). Broader than the graduation rate, which counts only first-time, full-time students, so the two are measured on different students and are not directly comparable.
83.3%
— percentile in peer group
Share of ALL entering degree-seeking undergraduates — full- and part-time, first-time and transfer-in — who earned a degree or certificate at this institution within eight years (IPEDS Outcome Measures, via College Scorecard). Broader and more inclusive than the graduation-rate figures, which count only first-time, full-time students entering a bachelor's program — so the two are measured on different groups of students and are not directly comparable.
Student body
Undergraduate race & ethnicity IPEDS 2024-25
Hispanic/Latino100.0%

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 loansShare of students taking out federal loans — a borrowing-reliance signal.
0%
9th percentile in peer grouppeer median 84%
Frequently asked
What is URBE University's student-faculty ratio?
URBE University reports a student-faculty ratio of 4:1 (IPEDS, fall 2023) — that is, about 4 students for every instructional faculty member.
Which schools are URBE University's peers?
URBE University is benchmarked against 28 institutions in the Other / Unclassified · Private for-profit 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.