Premiere International College Student Defense Lawyer | Fort Myers

Premiere International College is a single-campus private for-profit institution in Fort Myers that finished 2025 just under the statutory nursing floor.

74.07% of 27 first-time candidates

The associate-degree programme passed 74.07% of 27 first-time candidates against a floor of 76.05% — twenty passes and seven failures, about two points short. On a cohort of twenty-seven, that is within the range one additional result would cover, and it should be described that way rather than inflated.

Under Fla. Stat. section 464.019(5)(a)1 a Florida nursing programme’s first-time NCLEX passage rate must stay within 10 percentage points of the national average for comparable programmes — in 2025 that floor was 76.05% for associate-degree programmes and 77.17% for practical-nursing programmes. Section 464.019(5)(a)2 puts a programme two consecutive years below the floor at risk of probation and loss of approval, and section 464.019(5)(c) then obliges the programme to disclose that probationary status in writing to its students and applicants — a failure to give that notice is an independent, statute-based misrepresentation theory against a school that enrolled a student while on probation. A single year below the floor is not probation, and the Board of Nursing publishes no probation roster, so probationary status must be established from board minutes and orders rather than inferred. Every Florida programme is tabulated on the Florida nursing programme pass-rate page.

The honest reading is that the programme sat marginally under a statutory floor rather than that it was failing. That still matters to a dismissed student, because a programme on the line has a direct interest in not entering candidates whose result it predicts will be a failure — and a dismissal grounded in a prediction rather than in a published progression rule is a dismissal worth contesting.

A private school, so the statute students rely on does not apply

Most writing about Florida student dismissal assumes a public college, where Fla. Stat. section 1006.60(3) supplies notice, a hearing, the right to be accompanied by counsel and a burden that rests on the institution. This is a private institution. None of that section reaches it.

What governs instead is the enrolment agreement, the catalogue and the student and programme handbooks, read as a contract. Sharick v. Southeastern University of the Health Sciences establishes that a Florida student dismissed in breach of the school’s own contractual undertakings has a claim, and that damages can extend to lost future earning capacity rather than a refund of tuition. So the work is documentary: identify the exact promises the school made about process, and show which it did not keep.

Two further things matter at schools of this kind. Many enrolment agreements contain an arbitration clause, and whether it binds a student depends on the version signed, how broadly it is drafted, whether its cost terms are unconscionable and whether the school has waived it — that question comes first, because it decides whether there is a courtroom at all. And where a school is licensed by the Florida Commission for Independent Education rather than regionally accredited, the CIE complaint route exists alongside any civil claim and is often the faster pressure point.

Where a Premiere International College case is filed

Fort Myers is in Lee County, in the Middle District of Florida, assigned by Local Rule 1.04(a) to the Fort Myers Division — subject to any forum or arbitration term in the enrolment agreement.

What can a student defense lawyer do here?

  • Resolve the arbitration question first, from the agreement the student actually signed.
  • Assemble the enrolment agreement, catalogue and programme handbook for the correct edition, and pin down the promises about process.
  • Test the progression arithmetic — withdrawals, repeats and clinical failures are often counted in ways the handbook does not authorise.
  • Use the Commission for Independent Education complaint route where the school is CIE-licensed, in parallel with the civil claim.
  • Press on the wording of the decision letter, which follows the student into every future licensure and transfer application.

How Florida student dismissal cases work generally is set out on the Florida student defence page.

Other Florida colleges

Every school writes its own dismissal, appeal and conduct rules, and the filing deadlines are rarely the same from one campus to the next. These pages set out the procedure at other Florida colleges:

Common questions about Premiere International College cases

What was Premiere International College’s pass rate?

74.07% of 27 first-time candidates in 2025 — twenty passes and seven failures — against a statutory floor of 76.05%.

Is a two-point shortfall on 27 candidates meaningful?

Only modestly, and it should be said plainly: one more pass would have cleared the floor. It supports the narrow point that the programme was under a statutory minimum, not a claim that it was failing.

Does Fla. Stat. 1006.60(3) apply?

No. That statute governs Florida public colleges. This is a private for-profit institution, so the enrolment agreement, catalogue and handbooks govern as a contract, under Sharick v. Southeastern University of the Health Sciences.

Which court covers Fort Myers?

The Middle District of Florida, Fort Myers Division. Lee County is assigned to Fort Myers by Local Rule 1.04(a).