Notes

These are items that bear looking into more closely.

• “Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals. Before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of color” according to an NAACP travel advisory of May 20, 2023.

• This institution’s six year bachelors graduation rate is 52.1%, so approximately 1/2 of undergrads who enroll do not earn a bachelors degree from here.

• There are apparently no tenure stream faculty. This can indicate a risk to academic freedom and thus educational quality, as faculty members may be able to lose their positions because of their speech, publications, or research findings.

Overview of institution

This, and the rest of the page, use info from the most recent year available, generally 2023.

• Institution kind: Master’s Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs

• Undergrad program: Professions plus arts & sciences, some graduate coexistence

• Graduate program: Research Doctoral: Single program-Education

• Enrollment profile: High undergraduate (see more details below)

• Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $38,728 (2 times the equivalent cost of Harvard).

• Actual price for your family: Go here to see what your family may be asked to pay. It can be MUCH lower than the average price but also higher for some.

• Size and setting: Four-year, small, highly residential

• In state percentage: 31% of first year students come from Florida (note that 14.0% have no residence reported)

• In US percentage: 86% of first year students come from the US (note that 14.0% have no residence reported)

• Graduation rate (within 6 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 52.1% (this is what is usually reported as “graduation rate”)

• Graduation rate (within 4 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 43.9%

• Percent of students seeking a Bachelors who transfer out of this institution: 15.4%

• Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: Unknown (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]

• Student to faculty ratio: 19.7 (undergrads to all faculty)

• Degrees offered: Associate’s degree, Bachelor’s degree, Postbaccalaureate certificate, Master’s degree, Doctor’s degree: research scholarship

• Schedule: Semester

• Institution provides on campus housing: Yes

• Dorm capacity: There are enough dorm beds for 1545 students

• Freshmen required to live on campus: No

• Advanced placement (AP) credits used: Yes

• Disabilities: 23.79 percent of undergrads are registered as having disabilities.

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Comparisons

The sections below show this institution compared with others. The ones listed are ones it has identified as peers, who consider themselves peers, and/or who the federal government considers peers. If a comparison school has the same value as the focal school, its cell is grayed out. In fields where there is a common view that higher (or lower) values are better, the best values are in blue, the worst values are in red. If there isn’t a sense of a particular value being better, values are shown in varying shades of green. Arrows show where there is a signficant trend over time for a school. You can swipe across the table to see more of it; the focal school column is always visible.

• Lynn University lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: Lee University, Southeastern University, Hendrix College, Spring Hill College, St. Thomas University, Barry University, Flagler College, Hodges University, Palm Beach Atlantic University
• Lynn University compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: University of Miami, Florida International University, The University of Tampa, Spelman College, Tuskegee University, Anderson University, Rhodes College, Johnson C Smith University, Rollins College, The University of the South, Wofford College, Florida Atlantic University, Union University, Furman University, Samford University, Columbia International University, Lipscomb University, Florida Southern College, St. John Fisher University, Morehouse College, Trevecca Nazarene University, Eckerd College, University of Tulsa, Berry College, Thomas University, High Point University, Meredith College, Jacksonville University, Southern Wesleyan University, Clark Atlanta University, Birmingham-Southern College, Covenant College, Bryan College-Dayton, Tennessee Wesleyan University, Presbyterian College, Queens University of Charlotte, Oakwood University, Converse University, Johnson University, Andrews University, Reinhardt University, Oglethorpe University, Point University, Immaculata University, Florida Gulf Coast University, Catawba College, Saint Leo University, Everglades University, Ringling College of Art and Design, Stetson University, Southern Adventist University, Carson-Newman University, Maryville College, Gardner-Webb University, Charleston Southern University, Methodist University, Newberry College, Huntingdon College, Ave Maria University, Union Institute & University, Piedmont University, Mars Hill University, Claflin University, Young Harris College, The University of Tennessee Southern, North Carolina Wesleyan University, Lenoir-Rhyne University, Cumberland University, Our Lady of the Lake University, University of Mobile, Edgewood College, Lincoln Memorial University, Guilford College, Faulkner University, Albizu University-Miami, National Louis University, Lane College, King University, Saint Augustine’s University, Warner University, Trinity International University-Illinois, Bethune-Cookman University, North Greenville University, William Peace University, Belmont Abbey College, Shorter University, Stillman College, Benedict College, Barton College, Spalding University, Florida Memorial University, Truett McConnell University, Salem College, Limestone University, Columbia College, Livingstone College, Coker University, University of Mount Olive, Curry College, Wingate University, Chowan University, Pfeiffer University, Le Moyne-Owen College, California Institute of Integral Studies, Tusculum University, Brenau University, Life University, Shaw University, Alliant International University-San Diego, Fielding Graduate University
• These institutions compare themselves to Lynn University, but not vice versa: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach, Christian Brothers University, The University of Olivet, Mitchell College, Landmark College

Enrollment

General

Teaching

Tenure track faculty are those who are eligible for tenure. This includes both pre-tenure and tenured faculty. Once faculty get tenure, they are (generally) protected from being fired for intellectual reasons, helping to ensure their freedom in teaching and research. They can still lose their positions for misconduct, financial problems, not fulfilling their duties, or other reasons.

Non-tenure track faculty are not eligible for tenure. Some are hired one semester at a time, some have multi-year contracts. They typically have a higher teaching load than tenure track faculty, leaving less time for research or other creative endeavors. They are also easier to fire than tenured faculty. Sometimes they are external experts (a noted musician, a former senator) who are hired to teach some classes without the expected permanence of a tenure-track position.

Note that this chart uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races.

Having a low student to faculty ratio is considered a good thing by many, as it can mean more individual attention.

Geography

This has information on the location of the institution. See the about page for more information on what the metrics are and how they are calculated.

Financial Aid