About
Hobe Sound Bible College is a private Christian institution located in Hobe Sound, Florida. Founded in 1960, it offers a Christ-centered, Bible-based education focusing on ministry training and personal development, with programs in areas such as counseling, music education, and ministerial studies.
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 10 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 10 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data10 · 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.
Association for Biblical Higher Education, Commission on Accreditation
Action history · 2
- Nov 2025Warning or Equivalent-Factors Affecting Academic QualityAssociation for Biblical Higher Education, Commission on Accreditation
- Feb 2017Renewal of AccreditationAssociation for Biblical Higher Education, Commission on Accreditation
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, 69 students received $357K 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 64 borrowers who entered repayment, 11 (17.1%) defaulted within three years — above 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 Hobe Sound Bible College
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
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.
Hobe Sound Bible College vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Hobe Sound Bible 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectHobe Sound Bible College | 50% | — | 152 | $10,888 | Baccalaureate |
American Baptist College | 39% | — | 46 | $19,294 | Baccalaureate |
Arlington Baptist University | 19% | — | 302 | $28,599 | Baccalaureate |
Baptist University of the Americas | 80% | — | 104 | $8,750 | Baccalaureate |
Barclay College | 3% | 51.0% | 219 | $28,827 | Baccalaureate |
Bethesda University | 8% | 66.9% | 263 | $8,388 | Baccalaureate |
Calvary University | 52% | 71.7% | 244 | $12,860 | Baccalaureate |
City Vision University | 0% | — | 296 | $6,709 | Baccalaureate |
Criswell College | 50% | 100.0% | 160 | $12,929 | Baccalaureate |
Crowley's Ridge College | 32% | — | 241 | $17,236 | Baccalaureate |
Dallas Christian College | 27% | 21.8% | 248 | $22,456 | Baccalaureate |
Ecclesia College | 39% | 73.8% | 111 | $24,294 | Baccalaureate |
Great Lakes Christian College | 32% | — | 210 | $18,700 | Baccalaureate |
Kuyper College | 45% | 69.1% | 161 | $28,458 | Baccalaureate |
Manna University | 0% | 52.7% | 268 | $20,170 | Baccalaureate |
Mid-Atlantic Christian University | 22% | 62.2% | 140 | $25,876 | Baccalaureate |
Ottawa University-Milwaukee | — | — | 116 | — | Baccalaureate |
Pacific Rim Christian University | 36% | 60.0% | 187 | $22,668 | Baccalaureate |
Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico-Miami | 100% | — | 32 | — | Baccalaureate |
Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico-Orlando | 33% | — | 127 | $20,040 | Baccalaureate |
South Florida Bible College and Theological Seminary | 17% | — | 471 | — | Baccalaureate |
Southern California Seminary | 50% | — | 161 | — | Baccalaureate |
Sterling College | 32% | 66.7% | 57 | $30,785 | Baccalaureate |
Trinity College of Florida | 0% | 91.9% | 152 | $21,283 | Baccalaureate |
Trinity International University-Florida | — | — | — | $5,455 | Baccalaureate |
University of Saint Katherine | 43% | 46.3% | — | $33,072 | Baccalaureate |
Warner Pacific University Professional and Graduate Studies | — | 59.3% | 257 | — | Baccalaureate |
Whitworth University-Adult Degree Programs | — | 28.6% | 145 | — | Baccalaureate |
| Peer group median | 33% | 62.2% | 161 | $20,105 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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