About
First Coast Technical College (FCTC) is a public technical college located in St. Augustine, Florida. Originally founded in 1965 as St. Augustine Technical Center, it offers a variety of vocational programs across multiple focus areas including health sciences, information technology, and manufacturing. The college currently operates under the St. Johns County School District.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 13 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 13 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data13 · 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.
Council on Occupational Education
Action history · 4
- Jun 2025Grant Substantive Change: OtherCouncil on Occupational Education
- Mar 2021Approved for Distance EducationCouncil on Occupational Education
- Dec 2020Approved for Distance EducationCouncil on Occupational Education
- Sep 2015Renewal of AccreditationCouncil on Occupational Education
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 291 students received $1.4M in Pell grants.
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 0 borrowers who entered repayment, 0 (0.0%) defaulted within three years — below the 13.2% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
Academic programs at First Coast Technical College
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
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
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
First Coast Technical College vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions First Coast Technical College 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectFirst Coast Technical College | 77% | — | 727 | $9,538 | — |
Atlantic Technical College | — | — | 3,304 | $13,018 | — |
Canadian Valley Technology Center | — | — | 2,197 | $10,046 | — |
Downey Adult School | — | — | 953 | $13,102 | — |
Erie 1 BOCES | — | 20.5% | 383 | $11,423 | — |
Erwin Technical College | — | — | 581 | $7,086 | — |
Indian Capital Technology Center-Muskogee | — | — | 1,491 | $6,352 | — |
Lake Technical College | — | — | 894 | $14,597 | — |
Lorenzo Walker Technical College | — | — | 875 | $12,241 | — |
Mountainland Technical College | — | — | 3,967 | — | — |
Northeast Technology Center | — | — | 1,498 | $7,251 | — |
Onondaga Cortland Madison BOCES | — | — | 354 | $15,459 | — |
Orange Technical College-East Campus | — | — | 2,912 | $22,206 | — |
Osceola Technical College | — | — | 1,155 | $5,420 | — |
Pinellas Technical College-Clearwater | — | — | 1,126 | $12,103 | — |
Pinellas Technical College-St. Petersburg | — | — | 1,463 | $17,981 | — |
Robert Morgan Educational Center and Technical College | — | — | 1,045 | $12,702 | — |
Suncoast Technical College | — | — | 1,116 | $17,430 | — |
Tennessee College of Applied Technology Nashville | — | — | 1,101 | $9,480 | — |
Tennessee College of Applied Technology Northwest | — | — | 2,284 | $10,375 | — |
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Dickson | — | — | 1,628 | $8,332 | — |
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Elizabethton | — | — | 1,850 | $8,419 | — |
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Hohenwald | — | — | 2,416 | $10,091 | — |
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Jackson | — | — | 3,117 | $9,528 | — |
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Livingston | — | — | 1,055 | $11,899 | — |
Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Morristown | — | — | 749 | $9,798 | — |
William T McFatter Technical College | — | — | 960 | $8,919 | — |
York County School of Technology-Adult & Continuing Education | — | — | 229 | $11,206 | — |
| Peer group median | 77% | 20.5% | 1,121 | $10,375 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
Grants & funding (1)
Federal grant awards and open funding opportunities awarded to this institution.
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