About
Saint John Vianney College Seminary is a Roman Catholic seminary located in Miami, Florida, focused on the formation of men preparing for the priesthood. It was founded in 1959 and offers educational programs centered on philosophy, theology, and human formation.
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.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 1 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 1 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data1 · 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.
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
Programmatic accreditations · 1
Action history · 10
- Apr 2025Renewal of AccreditationCommission on English Language Program Accreditation · English Language
- Dec 2024Heightened Monitoring or Focused ReviewSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Dec 2024Heightened Monitoring or Focused ReviewSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Jun 2024Heightened Monitoring or Focused ReviewSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
- Jun 2023Heightened Monitoring or Focused ReviewSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Colleges
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 8 students received $53K 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 4 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 SJVCS
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.
SJVCS vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions SJVCS 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectSt. John Vianney College Seminary | 100% | — | 79 | — | — |
Appalachian Bible College | 52% | 77.8% | 223 | $17,401 | — |
Baptist Missionary Association Theological Seminary | — | 28.6% | 75 | — | — |
Beth Medrash Govoha | — | — | 9,657 | — | — |
Bethany Global University | 28% | 92.9% | 100 | $20,833 | — |
Carolina College of Biblical Studies | 0% | — | 212 | $18,745 | — |
Central Christian College of the Bible | 23% | 21.3% | 189 | $13,866 | — |
Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitz | 3% | 87.4% | 986 | $19,406 | — |
Clear Creek Baptist Bible College | 38% | — | 183 | $10,255 | — |
Heritage Bible College | 25% | — | 26 | $14,219 | — |
Heritage Christian University | 67% | 90.0% | 178 | — | — |
Mesivta Torah Vodaath Rabbinical Seminary | 50% | 80.0% | 593 | $5,360 | — |
Northpoint Bible College | 52% | — | 122 | $27,662 | — |
Ozark Christian College | 58% | 93.6% | 736 | $17,931 | — |
Rabbinical College Bobover Yeshiva Bnei Zion | 83% | — | 548 | $8,943 | — |
Rabbinical College of America | 22% | 95.1% | 194 | $13,452 | — |
Reformed University | 50% | 73.4% | 294 | — | — |
Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary-Overbrook | 42% | 100.0% | 170 | $38,775 | — |
Saint John's Seminary | — | — | 86 | — | — |
Sh'or Yoshuv Rabbinical College | 0% | — | 156 | $11,600 | — |
Shasta Bible College and Graduate School | 50% | 100.0% | 25 | — | — |
SUM Bible College and Theological Seminary | 14% | 40.7% | 319 | $21,042 | — |
Talmudic College of Florida | 63% | — | 28 | $23,529 | — |
Yeshiva Karlin Stolin | 23% | 78.9% | 164 | $2,060 | — |
Yeshiva of Nitra Rabbinical College | 11% | — | 264 | $5,823 | — |
Yeshivah Gedolah Rabbinical College | 0% | — | 60 | $11,581 | — |
Yeshivath Shaar Hatorah | 53% | 72.2% | 87 | $11,613 | — |
| Peer group median | 40% | 80.0% | 178 | $14,043 |
SJVCS Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
The fundamental purpose of St. John Vianney College Seminary is to provide undergraduate and graduate education and formation to those students whose stated objective is to discern a call to serve the Catholic Church as priests.
Visit IR office pageReports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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