{"id":317199,"date":"2026-06-23T19:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317199\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:49:12","slug":"fiu-again-the-top-performing-university-fgcu-lowest-per-state-metrics-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/317199\/","title":{"rendered":"FIU again the top-performing university, FGCU lowest, per state metrics | Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida International University again is the best-performing state institution, based on Florida\u2019s performance-based funding metrics.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Miami school raised its score by one, to 97 out of 100, since last year. The metrics<\/a> score schools on wages earned by graduates, graduation rates, and retention rates, among other measures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the previous two years<\/a>, the school scored 96 and in 2023, 95.<\/p>\n

The lowest scoring was again Florida Gulf Coast University, which raised its score from 67 last year to 73 this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

FGCU trustees voted this year to renew its president\u2019s contract, pending approval by the system\u2019s Board of Governors.<\/p>\n

No institution scored below 70, meaning none has to provide a plan of corrective action to the governors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Florida A&M University\u2019s and New College of Florida\u2019s scores dropped, with New College the second-lowest scoring institution in the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The University of Florida, and then the University of South Florida, were the next-highest performing after FIU.\u00a0<\/p>\n

New College of Florida showed the most dramatic drop in the percentage of graduates earning more than $40,000 within a year of graduating. New College alumni are employed at that salary or higher, or continue their education, at a rate of 53%. That is more than 16% below the next lowest score, the University of Central Florida, at 69%.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Florida Polytechnic University raised its four-year graduation rate by 19%, up to nearly 56%. New College dropped its four-year graduation rate by 16%, to 31%, the lowest in the system.<\/p>\n

Overall, Florida Polytechnic raised its score by 13, from 74 to 87.<\/p>\n

New College raised its percentage of students receiving Pell Grant by 7%, to nearly 43%.<\/p>\n

The system budget<\/a> as passed for the coming fiscal year includes $645 million for performance-based incentives. Gov. Ron DeSantis has not yet signed the budget.<\/p>\n

2026 score (change from 2025 score)<\/p>\n

Florida International University: 97 (+1)<\/p>\n

University of Florida: 96 (+2)<\/p>\n

University of South Florida: 95 (+6)<\/p>\n

Florida State University: 93 (+2)<\/p>\n

University of West Florida: 93 (+2)<\/p>\n

University of Central Florida: 91 (+4)<\/p>\n

Florida Polytechnic University: 87 (+13)<\/p>\n

University of North Florida: 86 (+5)<\/p>\n

Florida A&M University: 80 (-3)<\/p>\n

Florida Atlantic University: 80 (+4)<\/p>\n

New College of Florida: 75 (-5)<\/p>\n

Florida Gulf Coast University: 73 (+6)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida International University again is the best-performing state institution, based on Florida\u2019s performance-based funding metrics.\u00a0 The Miami school…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2845,131816,131805,25812,131815,75396,131817,2846,131810,131807,131812,19175,131813,131806,131819,131814,58939,225,227,226,131811,131818,131803,12182,131804,131808,131809,131802],"class_list":["post-317199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-fiu","tag-fiu-leads-florida-state-universities-again","tag-fiu-top-performing-university","tag-florida-board-of-governors","tag-florida-colleges-ranked-by-state-metrics","tag-florida-higher-education","tag-florida-higher-education-funding-incentives","tag-florida-international-university","tag-florida-international-university-score-97","tag-florida-performance-based-funding-scores","tag-florida-polytechnic-university-improvement","tag-florida-universities","tag-florida-university-graduation-rate-data","tag-florida-university-performance-rankings","tag-florida-university-performance-scores-for-fiscal-year-2026","tag-graduate-earnings-performance-metrics","tag-graduation-rates","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-new-college-of-florida-ranking-decline","tag-new-college-posts-lowest-graduation-rate-in-state-system","tag-performance-based-funding","tag-state-university-system","tag-student-success-metrics","tag-university-of-florida-ranking","tag-university-of-south-florida-performance","tag-university-rankings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}