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Ohio University-Eastern Campus

Saint Clairsville, OH
FY 2023-24 fragility
49
/ 100
moderate

Composite Fragility Score over time

Pillar trajectories

Operating Margin
(Operating revenue − operating expenses) / operating revenue. Industry-standard debt-rating heuristics — Fitch-style bands for privates, Moody's-aligned for publics. Score reflects current year and 3-year rolling average — single positive years don't erase chronic distress.
Amber dot = unusual single-year shift; smoothed metric attenuates impact. Hover for context.
Pricing Power
Real net tuition revenue per FTE, 5-year change. Falling real net tuition + rising discount rate = market rejection of value proposition. Discount rate is the all-student institutional rate (F2C05 + F2C06 funded + unfunded grants over gross tuition); schools typically publish a first-time-in-college rate which runs 5-10 points higher.
Amber dot = unusual single-year shift; smoothed metric attenuates impact. Hover for context.
Debt Burden
Viability ratio (expendable net assets / plant debt) with debt-acceleration penalty. Catches schools whose covenants are at risk because of recent debt issuance.
Liquidity
Days cash on hand. Tuition-collapse override prevents 'deathbed cash' from misleading the score (high cash from emergency relief while school is shrinking).

Administrative spending

Institutional Support (administration) measured two ways, from IPEDS expense-by-function reporting: as a share of total operating expenses alongside Instruction (faculty/teaching), and indexed against net tuition revenue to show whether admin spending tracks the revenue that funds it.

Admin: 10.1% → 4.9% · Instruction: 44.1% → 69.7%

Instruction and Institutional Support as a share of total operating expenses. Instruction is the IPEDS faculty/teaching proxy; Institutional Support is the administrative proxy (executive management, finance, HR, general admin). A narrowing gap means admin is gaining on teaching.

Student-to-admin ratio · AY 2023-24
424.0:1
424 student FTE ÷ 1 full-time admin
265% above Carnegie peer average — leaner than peers
Carnegie reference
116.2:1
Carnegie 12 · n=33
Mean students-per-admin across schools in the same Carnegie classification (target excluded). Higher means leaner administrative footprint.

What “admin” means here: Management (OCCUPCAT 300) + Business and Financial Operations (OCCUPCAT 310) full-time staff — the “decision-making admin” headcount. Source: IPEDS S2023_OC survey (Fall 2023). This is a headcount metric, not a dollar metric, so it isn’t contaminated by regional salary differences. Not part of the fragility score; surfaced as descriptive context only.

Program earnings outcomes

From the HEA Group’s January 2026 release of program-level earnings data used in AHEAD negotiations. Each tested program is checked against a same-state high-school-graduate earnings benchmark; programs also subject to OBBBA Gainful Employment lose Title IV eligibility on a fail and are flagged AT RISK.

Earnings by Program
Median earnings 4 years post-completion vs the earnings benchmark. 2 programs fall below the benchmark.
Benchmark
$34,808
OH HS-only median
  • Human Development Family Studies and Related Services
    Associate · 35 completers in earnings cohort
    FAIL -9K
  • Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians
    Associate · 20 completers in earnings cohort
    FAIL -1K
  • Air Transportation
    Bachelor · 29 completers in earnings cohort
    PASS +65K
  • Industrial Engineering
    Bachelor · 26 completers in earnings cohort
    PASS +65K
  • Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering
    Bachelor · 39 completers in earnings cohort
    PASS +60K
  • Management Information Systems and Services
    Bachelor · 139 completers in earnings cohort
    PASS +59K
  • Computer Science
    Bachelor · 57 completers in earnings cohort
    PASS +58K

Source: HEA Group Jan 2026 release using AHEAD-negotiations data. Pooled 2017-18 + 2018-19 completer cohorts; earnings measured CY 2022-23, inflation-adjusted to 2024 (CPI-U). Only programs with sufficient Title-IV completers appear in the test. “AT RISK” = fails the OBBBA Gainful Employment threshold — loss of Title IV eligibility likely, program likely closes.

Latest-year breakdown (FY 2023-24)

PillarRaw MetricScore
Operating Margin-4.3%25 / 25
Pricing Power$5,303 real net tuition / FTE0 / 25
Debt Burden—12 / 25
Liquidity—12 / 25

Peer schools

Closest by Fragility Score in FY 2023-24. Financial similarity only — geographic / regional clustering is a separate (future) feature.

Less fragile
Schools scoring below
More fragile
Schools scoring above

Selected raw financials — FY 2023-24

GASB / IPEDS Finance F1A. DSO totals from LLM enrichment of audited financial statements; see /sources for citations.

Total revenue (F1B27)
$4.7M
Total expenses (F1C191)
$4.9M
Net tuition revenue (F1B01)
$2.2M
Auxiliary enterprises revenue (F1B05)
$0
State appropriations (F1B11)
$1.7M
Endowment EOY (F1H02)
—
Long-term debt (F1A10)
—
Expendable net position (F1N05)
—
Interest expense (F1C19IN)
$0
DSO debt — campus-specific
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DSO debt — system-level pool
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