The Top 10 Best Colleges In Florida
The personal-finance website WalletHub today released its 2024’s Best College & University Rankings report. The rankings were based on 30 key measures grouped into seven categories, such as Student Selectivity, Cost & Financing and Career Outcomes. The data set ranges from student-faculty ratio to graduation rate to post-attendance median salary. In this, they ranked the best colleges in Florida. The top Florida school in the rankings was The University Of Florida.
Here’s how the top 3 schools in Florida performed based on the metrics. This is based on the 27 Florida schools that were featured in the overall rankings.
UF School Snapshot: University of Florida (1 = Best; 14 = Average; 27 = Worst):
- 2nd – Admission Rate
- 7th – Net Cost
- 11th – Student-Faculty Ratio
- 6th – On-Campus Crime
- 10th – Gender & Racial Diversity
- 1st – Graduation Rate
- 3rd – Post-Attendance Median Salary
FSU School Snapshot: Florida State University (1 = Best; 14 = Average; 27 = Worst):
- 3rd – Admission Rate
- 11th – Net Cost
- 12th – Student-Faculty Ratio
- 16th – On-Campus Crime
- 14th – Gender & Racial Diversity
- 2nd – Graduation Rate
- 7th – Post-Attendance Median Salary
The U School Snapshot: University of Miami (1 = Best; 14 = Average; 27 = Worst):
- 1st – Admission Rate
- 27th – Net Cost
- 3rd – Student-Faculty Ratio
- 15th – On-Campus Crime
- 3rd – Gender & Racial Diversity
- 3rd – Graduation Rate
- 2nd – Post-Attendance Median Salary
Although Miami shines in some categories, expense and crime pulled down their ranking of the best colleges in Florida.
UF scored better overall, followed by FSU. Here’s the top 10 Florida colleges according to their rankings.
Top 10 Colleges & Universities in Florida
| 1. University of Florida | 6. Florida Polytechnic University | |
| 2. Florida State University | 7. Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University | |
| 3. University of Miami | 8. The University of Tampa | |
| 4. University of South Florida | 9. Florida Southern College | |
| 5. University of Central Florida | 10. Florida International University |
All the data and rankings can be found here. Here’s an alternate ranking, focused less on education :).
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