Here are the most affordable colleges and universities in Florida. Our list will help you find the right kind of school for you, at a price you can afford.
Coming in under the national tuition average at $6,360, Florida’s colleges and universities make earning your degree affordable. Prospective students can choose from 40 public and 50 private institutions that award associate, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in fields like anthropology, nursing, law, religious studies, and earth sciences. With over 165,000 students across eight campuses and 21 outreach centers, Miami Dade College is the largest public college in the state with a tuition of $3,000.
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Students seeking a religious school can choose from 21 colleges and universities that are grounded in Judeo-Christian, Catholic, Seventh-day Adventist, and Christian principals. Ranked as the top two schools, the University of Florida (UF) and Florida State University (FSU) both have large student populations, with just over 45,000 at UF and just under 39,000 as FSU. Both are also affordable, with tuition at $6,000 and $7,000, respectively.
At $50,000, the University of Miami is the most expensive private college in the state and has graduated influential people, such as Gene Roddenberry, Sylvester Stallone, and Dwayne The Rock
Johnson. Florida also offers its nursing students up to $4,000 in loan forgiveness through their Nursing Student Loan Forgiveness Program.
Coastal cities, sandy beaches, orange groves, and vibrant flowers — it’s no wonder Florida is called The Sunshine State. Home to the famous Everglades National Park and Disney World, Florida also boasts 90 higher education institutes.
With so many options and in such a beautiful setting, Florida has a lot to offer higher education students. Check out Florida’s best degree programs and top career paths.
The following list of the most affordable colleges and universities in Florida is composed entirely of schools offering four-year undergraduate degree programs. There are 48 colleges and universities in Florida that offer tuition under $16,000/year. The list below of the top 20 most affordable colleges universities in the state satisfies the following three conditions:
The people affiliated with a school are ultimately what make it great. This is why, at the undergraduate level, we rank the best colleges and universities based on what we call “Concentrated Influence”. Concentrated Influence takes the combined influence score of a college or university’s top academic influencers (including faculty and alums) and divides it by the school’s total number of undergraduates.
Using concentrated influence gives small and mid-sized schools an opportunity to shine by taking away the size advantage of larger universities. A small school with proportionately more influential faculty than a large school, whose influence in absolute terms may be bigger, will nonetheless score higher in a concentrated influence ranking. Our approach highlights undergraduate schools that truly rank for excellence, regardless of size.
If you are serious about finding the best colleges and universities for a bachelor’s degree, you should be asking where the most influential professors are teaching and whether their graduates are themselves advancing the school’s reputation for academic excellence.
Most ranking sites rely on an opaque combination of reputation surveys and arbitrary performance metrics. Concentrated Influence provides a ranking that is free from bias, insulated from manipulation, and reflective of real-world educational outcomes.
Tuition + fees
$5K
Acceptance
75%
Graduation
56%
Student body
26K
Median SAT/ACT
1160/24
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Florida Atlantic University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Acceptance
24%
Median SAT/ACT
1225/27
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Tuition + fees
$6K
Acceptance
80%
Graduation
66%
Student body
15K
Median SAT/ACT
1175/22
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University of North Florida’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$6K
Acceptance
58%
Graduation
48%
Student body
10K
Median SAT/ACT
1170/25
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University of West Florida’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$6K
Acceptance
33%
Graduation
55%
Student body
8K
Median SAT/ACT
1095/21
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Florida A&M University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Acceptance
27%
Graduation
36%
Median SAT/ACT
1207/26
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Tuition + fees
$6K
Acceptance
77%
Graduation
53%
Student body
13K
Median SAT/ACT
1135/23
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Florida Gulf Coast University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$6K
Acceptance
45%
Graduation
74%
Student body
60K
Median SAT/ACT
1255/27
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University of Central Florida’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$6K
Acceptance
31%
Graduation
89%
Student body
47K
Median SAT/ACT
1390/30
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University of Florida’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$6K
Acceptance
49%
Graduation
74%
Student body
44K
Median SAT/ACT
1250/27
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University of South Florida’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$7K
Acceptance
32%
Graduation
84%
Student body
40K
Median SAT/ACT
1270/28
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Florida State University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$7K
Acceptance
58%
Graduation
67%
Student body
48K
Median SAT/ACT
1195/25
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Florida International University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$7K
Acceptance
70%
Graduation
64%
Student body
<1K
Median SAT/ACT
1270/28
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New College of Florida’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$13K
Acceptance
67%
Graduation
32%
Student body
<1K
Median SAT/ACT
975/19
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Trinity Baptist College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$14K
Graduation
47%
Student body
6K
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Florida National University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$15K
Acceptance
61%
Graduation
28%
Student body
<1K
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Hodges University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$15K
Acceptance
98%
Graduation
33%
Student body
3K
Median SAT/ACT
925/16
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Bethune–Cookman University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$16K
Acceptance
38%
Graduation
35%
Student body
1K
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Florida Memorial University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$18K
Acceptance
75%
Graduation
58%
Student body
2K
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Everglades University’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
Tuition + fees
$20K
Acceptance
56%
Graduation
58%
Student body
3K
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Flagler College’s faculty and alumni have been influential in:
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