Pasco-Hernando State College

What are the graduation rates for students at Pasco-Hernando State College?

PHSC's reported overall graduation rate is 41% in the 2024-25 IPEDS information. The figure is useful as a cohort measure, but it should not be read as the chance that any individual student - including a part-time, returning, or transfer student - will graduate.

The standard federal graduation-rate measure focuses on first-time, full-time students who complete within 150% of their program's normal length. That definition excludes many of the students a state college serves, and it does not treat transfer to another institution as graduation from PHSC. Prospective students comparing outcomes should look at the credential they want, the time they can attend, and any available program-specific completion and licensing results.

What is the earning potential for graduates at Pasco-Hernando State College?

College Scorecard field-of-study figures report one-year-after-completion earnings of about $68,363 for registered nursing and related nursing programs at PHSC, compared with about $35,543 for business administration, management, and operations. These are program-level observations for the measured cohorts, not starting-salary offers or predictions for every graduate.

College Scorecard earnings measures generally concern former students in the relevant federal-aid data who have reportable earnings; they do not capture every completer or describe the full range of pay. Occupation, credential level, work hours, prior experience, and local labor-market conditions can all affect a person's earnings. The contrast is most useful for understanding how different the measured outcomes of two fields can be - not for judging a nursing program against a business program as though their graduates entered the same jobs.