Private for-profit · Community college

Beckfield College-Florence

Florence, Kentucky · Large suburb

#5 for grad earnings in Kentucky
0%
Transfer rate
$28,133
Avg net price
32%
Grad / completion
$37,114
Median earnings

Beckfield College-Florence is a private for-profit associate-granting institution in Florence, Kentucky (large suburb setting), enrolling 536 undergraduates. Admission is open to all applicants.

Private for-profitSmall · 536 undergradsLarge suburbCold winters

About Florence, Kentucky

Florence is a city in Boone County, Kentucky, United States, part of the Cincinnati metropolitan area. The Florence area was originally known as Crossroads, because of the convergence of several roads from Burlington and Union at Ridge Road (now U.S. 25). By 1821, the area was known as Maddentown for Thomas Madden, a Covington attorney who owned a farm on the Burlington Pike. Florence is well known in surrounding cities for a water tower visible from I-71/I-75 that reads "Florence Y'all". Built in 1974, the tower originally advertised the up-and-coming Florence Mall, as part of an agreement with the mall developers who donated the land for the tower. (Wikipedia)

Setting
Large suburb
Highest degree offered
Bachelor's
To Great Lakes shore
188 miles
Nearest airport
3 miles to Cincinnati Northern Kentucky (CVG) · major hub

How Beckfield College-Florence compares

Graduation rate32%

Higher than 15% · #43 of 46 in Kentucky

Earnings, 10 years after entry$37,114

Higher than 57% · #5 of 40 in Kentucky

Average net price$28,133

Cheaper than 11% · #46 cheapest of 50 in Kentucky

Median debt at graduation$23,500

Lower than 3%

Student–faculty ratio14 : 1

Lower than 62%

Undergraduate enrollment536

Larger than 63%

Percentiles compare Beckfield College-Florence with the nation's 3,519 two-year and certificate schools, among schools reporting each statistic. State ranks count two-year and certificate schools in Kentucky.

Student body

Undergraduates by gender

536undergrads
  • Women47989%
  • Men5711%

Undergraduates by race / ethnicity

  • White77%
  • Black17%
  • Hispanic1.5%
  • Asian0.8%
  • Other or multiracial4.1%

Graduate gender splits aren't published in this data, so the gender chart covers undergraduates only.

By the numbers

Undergraduate enrollment
536
Student–faculty ratio
14 : 1
Pell Grant recipients
64%
First-generation students
59%
Students over 25
72%
Median family income
$16,835
Avg faculty salary (academic year)
$36,351

Colleges don't publish true class-size data; student–faculty ratio (IPEDS) is the closest public measure of it.

Cost

In-state tuition
$13,295
Room & board
Books & supplies
$2,000
Total cost of attendance
$34,541
Average net price
$28,133

Net price is the total cost minus grants and scholarships — what students actually pay. It varies sharply by family income; see the breakdown below.

Outcomes

Graduated (within 6 years)
32%
Graduated on time (4 years)
0%
First-year retention
Transferred to another college
0%
Median earnings, 6 years after entry
$34,873
Median earnings, 10 years after entry
$37,114
Median debt at graduation
$23,500
Students with federal loans
78%
Paying down their loans (1 year in)
15%

About 32% of students who finish here need more than four years — each extra year adds roughly another year of tuition and living costs.

Graduating on time

By student background (4 years)

All students
0%
Low-income (Pell)
24%
First-generation
25%

When these bars run close together, students from every background tend to finish at similar rates — a sign the school supports the ~30% who are first-gen or low-income.

Campus life & athletics

On-campus housing
No
Application fee
Free

Housing and fees: IPEDS 2023–24. Athletics rosters: Equity in Athletics data, 2024–25. Dorm capacity can include graduate and family housing, so the share of undergrads can top 100%.

Campus safety

Safety grade
A
Reported offenses per 1,000 students
0.0 / year
Violent offenses (2022–2024)
0
Property offenses (2022–2024)
0

On-campus criminal offenses reported under the Clery Act, 2022–2024, across 1 campus (536 students). Counts reflect reports, not convictions — schools with strong reporting cultures often show more, so a higher count doesn't simply mean a more dangerous campus.

What you'll actually pay, by family income

Average net price (total cost minus grants and scholarships) paid by aided students in each family-income band.

< $30k
$27,756
$30–48k
$28,004
$48–75k
$31,728
$75–110k
$30,007
$110k+

College Scorecard / IPEDS, most recent year. Family income is total household income; net price covers tuition, fees, room, board and supplies after grant aid, for students receiving federal aid.

Four-year (or more) true cost

Net price for your family's income, projected across the time it actually takes students here to graduate.

Est. total to a degree
$174,504

$31,728/year × about 5.5 years — most students here don't finish in exactly four, and each extra term adds cost. A planning estimate from net-price and graduation-timing data, not a bill.

Does the school pay you to attend?

Beckfield College-Florence funds essentially no grants of its own — almost all aid here comes from federal (Pell), state, or outside sources rather than the school's own discount. Its sticker price is what it is.

Source: IPEDS Student Financial Aid, 2022–23 full-time first-year undergraduates.

Is it worth it?

A rough return-on-investment read from what graduates earn versus what they borrow.

Median earnings (10 years)
$37,114
Typical debt at graduation
$23,500
Debt vs. one year's pay
63%
Out-earn a HS grad
53%

Typical debt would take roughly 6.3 years to repay at about a tenth of median earnings.

Weigh it value

The payoff is less clear-cut here — weigh the debt against the earnings and your intended field before borrowing heavily.

Earnings are the College Scorecard median for former students (working, not enrolled) 10 years after entry — not a guarantee, and they vary a lot by major. Debt is the median federal loan balance at graduation.

The pay gap here

Median earnings 10 years after entry, split by gender.

Women
$34,641
Men
$44,255

Men out-earn women by $9,614 (28%) a decade out.

Federal figures for former students working and not enrolled, 10 years after they first entered. A gap this wide usually reflects which majors men and women here tend to choose — not different pay for the same job.

Campus climate

Summer high
86°F
Winter low
23°F
Annual rain
45.3″
Annual snow
23.3″

Average temperature

HighLow
10°50°90°JFMAMJJASOND

Average precipitation (inches)

0.02.44.8JFMAMJJASOND

NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals, Cincinnati Northern KY AP, KY US station (2.4 mi from campus).

Median earnings of this school's own graduates 1 and 5 years after finishing each program, and median federal-loan debt at completion (College Scorecard). Small programs are privacy-suppressed (—). Click a major to compare colleges nationally.

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Source: US Department of Education College Scorecard (most recent cohorts), IPEDS institutional characteristics, Equity in Athletics (EADA) data, Clery Act Campus Safety and Security data, and NOAA US Climate Normals. Distances are straight-line from campus coordinates. Percentiles compare schools of the same level (four-year vs. two-year) that report each statistic.