About
The University of Fort Lauderdale (UFTL) is a private Christian university in Lauderhill, Florida, United States. Founded in 1995, the school offers associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees and has a mission statement of being a "premier Christian institution of higher learning empowering future leaders through higher educational degrees rooted in Biblical principles". UFTL co-founder Henry B. Fernandez leads the school as chancellor and CEO.
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 11 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 11 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data11 · 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.
Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools, Accreditation Commission
Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools, Accreditation Commission
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, 186 students received $1.1M in Pell grants, alongside $1.1M 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 33 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 University of Fort Lauderdale
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 · 7
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.
University of Fort Lauderdale vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions University of Fort Lauderdale 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectUniversity of Fort Lauderdale | 100% | — | 368 | $15,245 | — |
American College of the Building Arts | 55% | 44.4% | 155 | $26,389 | — |
Ana G. Mendez University | — | — | 8,378 | — | — |
Antioch University | — | — | 486 | — | — |
Bank Street College of Education | — | — | 719 | — | — |
College Unbound | — | — | 494 | $19,116 | — |
Conway School of Landscape Design | — | — | 17 | — | — |
Epic Bible College & Graduate School | 0% | 78.6% | 98 | — | — |
Future Generations University | — | — | 48 | — | — |
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine | — | — | 610 | — | — |
High Tech High Graduate School of Education | — | — | 99 | — | — |
Institute of World Politics | — | — | 173 | — | — |
Martin Luther College | 72% | 87.2% | 878 | $20,483 | — |
Reiss-Davis Graduate School | — | — | 35 | — | — |
Relay Graduate School of Education | — | — | 1,324 | — | — |
Sofia University | — | — | 1,145 | — | — |
Southern California Institute of Architecture | 71% | 76.6% | 418 | $37,535 | — |
The Chicago School at Xavier University of Louisiana | — | — | 20 | — | — |
The School of Architecture | — | — | 8 | — | — |
VanderCook College of Music | 67% | 89.5% | 323 | $17,094 | — |
| Peer group median | 69% | 78.6% | 346 | $19,800 |
University of Fort Lauderdale Institutional Research office
The IR team responsible for the institution's federal reporting.
- Chloris UnderwoodVice President for Institutional Effectiveness and Compliance
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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