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 45.6%, 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: Doctoral/Professional Universities

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

• Graduate program: Research Doctoral: Professional-dominant

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

• Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $27,910 (1.4 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, medium, primarily residential

• In state percentage: 44% of first year students come from Florida

• In US percentage: 99% of first year students come from the US

• This institution has a religious affiliation of Assemblies of God Church

• Graduation rate (within 6 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 45.6% (this is what is usually reported as “graduation rate”)

• Graduation rate (within 4 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 32.4%

• Percent of students seeking a Bachelors who transfer out of this institution: 29.5%

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

• Student to faculty ratio: 36.7 (undergrads to all faculty)

• Degrees offered: Certificate of less than 1 year, Certificate of at least 12 weeks but less than 1 year, Associate’s degree, Bachelor’s degree, Postbaccalaureate certificate, Master’s degree, Post master’s certificate, Doctor’s degree: research scholarship, Doctor’s degree: professional practice

• Schedule: Semester

• Institution provides on campus housing: Yes

• Dorm capacity: There are enough dorm beds for 1791 students

• Freshmen required to live on campus: No

• Advanced placement (AP) credits used: Yes

• Disabilities: 3 percent or less 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.

• Southeastern University lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach, Evangel University, Trevecca Nazarene University, Southern Wesleyan University, Vanguard University of Southern California, Southwestern Assemblies of God University, Barry University, Warner University, North Central University, University of Valley Forge, Lynn University, Edward Waters University
• Southeastern University compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: The University of Tampa, College of the Ozarks, Mississippi College, Florida College, Cedarville University, Anderson University, Rollins College, Union University, Wheaton College, Taylor University, Messiah University, Lipscomb University, Lee University, LeTourneau University, Calvin University, Florida Southern College, Eckerd College, Florida Institute of Technology, Eastern University, Belhaven University, Abilene Christian University, Asbury University, Jacksonville University, Oral Roberts University, Covenant College, Bryan College-Dayton, Erskine College, Northwest University, Nova Southeastern University, John Brown University, Geneva College, Liberty University, Saint Leo University, Gordon College, Stetson University, Campbellsville University, Toccoa Falls College, Carson-Newman University, Louisiana Christian University, Williams Baptist University, Hardin-Simmons University, St. Thomas University, East Texas Baptist University, Trinity Bible College and Graduate School, Kentucky Christian University, Eastern Mennonite University, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Montreat College, Emmanuel University, King University, Bethune-Cookman University, North Greenville University, Northpoint Bible College, Florida Memorial University, Flagler College, Azusa Pacific University, Webber International University, Howard Payne University, Hodges University, Dallas Baptist University, Bluefield University, Palm Beach Atlantic University, Houston Christian University, Wayland Baptist University
• These institutions compare themselves to Southeastern University, but not vice versa: Regent University, Stockton University, Carroll College, SUM Bible College and Theological Seminary, Our Lady of the Lake University, Thomas More University, Wingate University

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

Graduation

Note these are bachelors graduation rates in six years, not four (this is standard). Sample sizes can be small for some demographic groups with few individuals in a school, leading to large year-to-year fluctuations and often extreme values for those groups (if there are two individuals in the class with a given identity, the possible graduation rates are 0%, 50%, or 100% depending on whether zero, one, or both students graduate within six years).

Library

Libraries are changing rapidly. Note that how institutions count digital collections may vary.