Suncoast Technical College
About
Suncoast Technical College is a technical education institution located in Sarasota, Florida, offering over 30 technical programs focused on areas such as Business & IT, Health & Public Services, and Industrial Technologies. The college supports adult and dual enrollment students with day and evening classes aimed at preparing them for various career paths.
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 23 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 23 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data23 · 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
Programmatic accreditations · 1
Action history · 7
- Jun 2025Warning or Equivalent-Factors Affecting Academic QualityCouncil on Occupational Education
- Jun 2024Grant Substantive Change: OtherCouncil on Occupational Education
- Jun 2024Removal of Monitoring StatusCouncil on Occupational Education
- Dec 2023Grant Substantive Change: OtherCouncil on Occupational Education
- Dec 2022Renewal 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, 256 students received $1.5M 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 1 borrowers who entered repayment, 0 (0.0%) 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 Suncoast 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.
Suncoast Technical College vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Suncoast 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectSuncoast Technical College | 50% | — | 1,116 | $17,430 | — |
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 | — |
First Coast Technical College | — | — | 727 | $9,538 | — |
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 | — |
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 | 50% | 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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