Academy for Five Element Acupuncture
About
The Academy for Five Element Acupuncture is an accredited acupuncture school located in Gainesville, Florida. It specializes in Five Element acupuncture and offers a Master of Acupuncture degree as well as a Certificate in Chinese Herbal Medicine. The institution teaches students based on traditional Taoism and the Five Element framework, focusing on holistic health and balance.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 3 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 3 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data3 · 100.0%
- Failing0 · 0.0%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine
Programmatic accreditations · 2
Action history · 2
- Feb 2017Renewal of AccreditationAccreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine
- Feb 2017Renewal of AccreditationAccreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine · Master's Degree- Acupuncture in English (MDAE)
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, students received in Pell grants, alongside $565K in federal Direct Loans.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 59 borrowers who entered repayment, 1 (1.6%) defaulted within three years — below the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at AFEA
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Top program families by completions
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
AFEA vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions AFEA selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectAcademy for Five Element Acupuncture | — | — | 39 | — | — |
Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences | — | — | 114 | — | — |
Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College-Berkeley | — | — | 115 | — | — |
Adler Graduate School | — | — | 275 | — | — |
Appalachian College of Pharmacy | — | — | 113 | — | — |
Atlantic Institute of Oriental Medicine | — | — | 89 | — | — |
Aultman College of Nursing and Health Sciences | 80% | 45.9% | 286 | $21,873 | — |
Blessing Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences | — | — | 193 | — | — |
Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis Inc | — | — | 169 | — | — |
Dongguk University Los Angeles | — | — | 102 | — | — |
Dragon Rises College of Oriental Medicine | — | — | 71 | — | — |
Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School | — | — | 192 | — | — |
Institute for Clinical Social Work | — | — | 121 | — | — |
Institute of Taoist Education and Acupuncture | — | — | 32 | — | — |
Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine | — | — | 69 | — | — |
Lakeview College of Nursing | — | — | 66 | — | — |
Midwives College of Utah | 40% | 85.7% | 239 | $26,463 | — |
Oregon College of Oriental Medicine | — | — | — | — | — |
Saint Anthony College of Nursing | — | — | 263 | — | — |
Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine | — | — | 50 | — | — |
Southwestern College | — | — | 289 | — | — |
St. John's College-Department of Nursing | — | — | 132 | — | — |
The Chicago School at Dallas | — | — | 219 | — | — |
The Chicago School at San Diego | — | — | 112 | — | — |
The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology | — | — | 243 | — | — |
Trinity College of Nursing & Health Sciences | — | — | 65 | — | — |
Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology | — | — | 78 | — | — |
Won Institute of Graduate Studies | — | — | 118 | — | — |
Wongu University of Oriental Medicine | — | — | 29 | — | — |
Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine | — | — | 166 | — | — |
| Peer group median | 60% | 65.8% | 115 | $24,168 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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