Keiser University-Ft Lauderdale
About
Keiser University is a private university with its main campus in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. Its flagship residential campus is in West Palm Beach, Florida, and additional campuses are located in other parts of Florida and internationally. Keiser provides educational programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate levels in both traditional and online delivery formats. The school is institutionally accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Admissions & acceptance rate
First-time freshman admissions: how selective the college is, and how many admitted students choose to enroll.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Non-Pell students graduate at a 11.0-point higher rate than Pell recipients.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 112 Title IV programs, 46 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 1 fails. 65 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing46 · 41.1%
- No Data65 · 58.0%
- Failing1 · 0.9%
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.
Earnings premium gap
Graduate earnings versus the federal benchmark, worst gaps first.
Debt vs earnings
Median completer debt against median graduate earnings, highest burden first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
Programmatic accreditations · 7
Action history · 26
- Jan 2026Renewal of AccreditationJoint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology · Radiologic Technology (RAD) - Programs for radiographers
- Dec 2025Renewal of AccreditationSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Aug 2025Grant Substantive Change: ProgramSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Jan 2025Loss of Accreditation or Preaccreditation: Voluntary WithdrawalAcademy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics · Dietetics (DIETI) - Dietetic Internship
- Dec 2024Heightened Monitoring or Focused ReviewSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
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, 15,265 students received $86.7M in Pell grants, alongside $212.9M 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 10,270 borrowers who entered repayment, 284 (2.7%) 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 KUL
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
Athletics & Title IX gender equity
How athletic participation, aid, and spending are split between men and women.
Men vs women · spending splits
Sport-by-sport · 13
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
- On campus1
- Public property1
Includes 1 in residence halls (a subset of on-campus, not added to the total).
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
- Lakeside Hall1 fireMachinery/IndustrialDamage $0-$99
- Stauffer Hall1 fireMachinery/IndustrialDamage $100-$999
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
KUL vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions KUL 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectKeiser University-Ft Lauderdale | 61% | — | 20,888 | $34,439 | Doctoral/Professional |
Bard College at Simon's Rock | — | 95.9% | 314 | $36,684 | Baccalaureate |
Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology | 0% | — | 744 | $16,172 | Baccalaureate |
Bryant & Stratton College-Buffalo | — | — | 2,086 | $14,117 | Baccalaureate |
Bryant & Stratton College-Online | 17% | — | 10,343 | $14,642 | Baccalaureate |
Bryant & Stratton College-Wauwatosa | 17% | — | 1,037 | $15,135 | Baccalaureate |
Donnelly College | — | — | 395 | $15,025 | Baccalaureate |
Dunwoody College of Technology | 86% | 98.9% | 1,537 | $27,023 | Baccalaureate |
Emmaus Bible College | 56% | 59.8% | 234 | $12,904 | Baccalaureate |
Florida College | 40% | 69.7% | 728 | $22,527 | Baccalaureate |
Goodwin University | — | — | 2,970 | $28,544 | Baccalaureate |
Herzing University-Akron | 0% | 94.6% | 393 | $20,320 | Baccalaureate |
Herzing University-Atlanta | 18% | 93.8% | 435 | $21,757 | Baccalaureate |
Hesston College | 54% | — | 373 | $21,458 | Baccalaureate |
Johnson & Wales University-Charlotte | 34% | 79.9% | 1,184 | $28,901 | Baccalaureate |
Lackawanna College | 67% | — | 2,211 | $24,449 | Baccalaureate |
New England Institute of Technology | — | 66.7% | 1,922 | $36,906 | Masters Colleges & Universities: Small Programs |
Oak Hills Christian College | 6% | 62.7% | 95 | $24,674 | Baccalaureate |
Southeastern Baptist College | 17% | 100.0% | 93 | $5,603 | Baccalaureate |
St. Augustine College | 20% | — | 810 | $17,082 | Baccalaureate |
University of Northwestern Ohio | 32% | — | 2,525 | $20,609 | Baccalaureate |
University of Rio Grande | 36% | — | 2,258 | $29,541 | Baccalaureate |
Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology | 36% | 73.9% | 1,405 | $39,723 | Baccalaureate |
| Peer group median | 33% | 79.9% | 1,037 | $21,757 |
KUL Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
Our mission is to foster and promote ethical research, scholarship, creativity, and innovation across all campuses. We are dedicated to supporting and collaborating with faculty and student researchers, empowering them to pursue meaningful work that enriches knowledge and contributes to both community well-being and societal growth.
Visit IR office page- Shoshana Dayanim, Ph.DDirector of Institutional Research; Chair of Institutional Review Board; Chair Research and Scholarship Collaborative
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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