Fortis Institute-Pensacola
For-profit College in Pensacola, FL. Six-year graduation rate 54%. Median 10-year earnings $26,652.
Students who entered Fortis Institute-Pensacola reach a median of $26,652 a decade later, a figure that trails the typical four-year outcome. Six-year completion sits at 54%, near the national average for undergraduate institutions. Graduates leave owing a median of $9,500 — modest by four-year standards.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
54% graduate within six years — average, but that average still hides a large group who do not. 44% first-year retention is low enough to be the defining risk of enrolling here. At 22:1, class sizes land in the normal range for an undergraduate institution. Being a for-profit two-year institution is the single most useful context for these numbers — the sector's spread is wide enough that the school-level figures matter more than usual. This is a small school — 663 undergraduates — so cohorts are tight and the program list is necessarily short.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 663 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Students pay $28,239 a year on average after aid, a premium price that the earnings data has to justify. The gap between the $0–30k and $75–110k bands is narrow ($27,420 versus $35,294), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 76% of students receive grant aid, averaging $6,217 — common but not automatic. Borrowing is widespread: 71% take federal loans.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 45 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $27,420 |
| $30–48k | $28,297 |
| $48–75k | $28,172 |
| $75–110k | $35,294 |
| $110k+ | — |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 473 of these 663 students, totalling $3,795,081 — an average of $8,023 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Escambia County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)