About
Texas Southmost College is a community college located in Brownsville, Texas, founded in 1926. The institution offers over 50 programs leading to associate degrees and certifications, focusing on university transfer, career and technical education, as well as workforce training.
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 50 Title IV programs, 5 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 1 fails. 44 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing5 · 10.0%
- No Data44 · 88.0%
- Failing1 · 2.0%
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.
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 · 5
Action history · 2
- May 2017Loss of Accreditation or Preaccreditation: OtherAccreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, Inc. — May 6, 2013 Formerly: National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission · Nursing (ADNUR) - Associate degree programs
- Aug 2014Change in Agency recognitionNational Association of Schools of Music, Commission on Accreditation · Music (MUS) - Institutions and units within institutions offering degree-granting and/or non-degree-granting programs
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, 2,748 students received $13.3M in Pell grants, alongside $2.3M 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 907 borrowers who entered repayment, 1 (0.1%) 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 Texas Southmost 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
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 · 1
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 campus2
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.
Texas Southmost College vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Texas Southmost 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectTexas Southmost College | 30% | — | 8,828 | $5,458 | Community College |
Anoka-Ramsey Community College | — | — | 8,486 | $11,471 | Community College |
Brightpoint Community College | — | — | 9,380 | $5,583 | Community College |
Camden County College | — | — | 7,622 | $5,124 | Community College |
City Colleges of Chicago-Harry S Truman College | — | — | 6,839 | $3,816 | Community College |
City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College | — | — | 7,798 | $2,651 | Community College |
Clovis Community College | — | — | 10,358 | $7,118 | Community College |
Coastline Community College | — | — | 9,008 | $9,605 | Community College |
College of Lake County | — | — | 12,530 | $6,212 | Community College |
College of Western Idaho | — | — | 11,015 | $7,697 | Community College |
Community College of Aurora | — | — | 8,833 | $7,466 | Community College |
Illinois Central College | — | — | 7,906 | $11,510 | Community College |
Johnson County Community College | — | — | 18,743 | $13,912 | Community College |
Lane Community College | — | — | 6,810 | $7,427 | Community College |
Los Angeles City College | — | — | 14,611 | $7,532 | Community College |
Los Angeles Mission College | — | — | 10,690 | $11,972 | Community College |
McHenry County College | — | — | 9,399 | $8,093 | Community College |
McLennan Community College | — | — | 7,850 | $6,185 | Community College |
Mohawk Valley Community College | — | — | 5,940 | $8,404 | Community College |
Normandale Community College | — | — | 11,026 | $12,370 | Community College |
Oakton College | — | — | 8,329 | $6,188 | Community College |
Ocean County College | — | — | 7,095 | $10,576 | Community College |
Palo Alto College | — | — | 12,395 | $4,374 | Community College |
Pima Community College | — | — | 16,283 | $3,123 | Community College |
Reedley College | — | — | 8,796 | $1,584 | Community College |
San Diego City College | — | — | 13,242 | -$818 | Community College |
San Diego Miramar College | — | — | 14,257 | -$2,735 | Community College |
Scottsdale Community College | — | — | 7,065 | $14,380 | Community College |
Washtenaw Community College | — | — | 11,133 | $3,561 | Community College |
Wayne County Community College District | — | — | 11,887 | $5,762 | Community College |
William Rainey Harper College | — | — | 13,988 | $6,186 | Community College |
| Peer group median | 30% | — | 9,380 | $6,212 |
Texas Southmost College Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
The page provides information about the Office of Institutional Planning, Research, and Effectiveness at Texas Southmost College. Patricia Galvan is the Director of Education Tech and Online Learning. The page includes contact details and links to various resources related to the office's activities and institutional support services.
Visit IR office page- Natividad Rangel-HinojosaDirector of Institutional Research
- Diana OrozcoInstitutional Research Survey Coordinator
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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