14 Florida Colleges Offer Best Value For Money

Tampa FL

19 May, 2022

10:59 AM

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FLORIDA — Prospective Florida college students and their parents looking for affordability and high quality have a new tool and resource to help narrow down their choices: Money's new "Best Colleges in America, Ranked By Value" report. The list includes 671 schools that met Money's criteria. The full methodology is found on Money's website, but in short it includes financially sound schools with enrollments of 500 or more students and graduation rates at or above the mean for the category of institution. The data was sorted in three categories: quality of education; affordability, including the availability of grants and other financial aid; and outcomes, a category that takes a comprehensive look at earnings after graduation, graduates' economic mobility and a new measure on return on investment using data from the Bipartisan Policy Center. For students who want to stay in Florida to go to college, the following colleges offer the most value, according to the ranking: University of Florida, Gainesville (No. 8) Overall score: 83.65 Acceptance rate: 31 percent Estimated full price, 2022-23: $22,000Estimated price with average grant: $10,600 Percent of students who get grants: 85 percent Florida State University, Tallahassee (No. 89) Overall score: 73.2 Acceptance rate: 32 percent Estimated full price, 2022-23: $23,800 Estimated price with average grant: $13,500 Percent of students who get grants: 85 percent University of Central Florida, Orlando (No. 108) Overall score: 71.95Acceptance rate: 45 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $23,500Estimated price with average grant: $11,700Percent of students who get grants: 72 percent Florida International University, Miami (No. 134) Overall score: 70.56Acceptance rate: 58 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $24,500Estimated price with average grant: $9,500Percent of students who get grants: 74 percent University of South Florida, Tampa (No. 214) Overall score: 67.41Acceptance rate: 49 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $24,500Estimated price with average grant: $10,600Percent of students who get grants: 67 percent University of North Florida, Jacksonville (No. 255) Overall score: 66.08Acceptance rate: 80 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $22,100Estimated price with average grant: $10,300Percent of students who get grants: 64 percent Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton (No. 340) Overall score: 62.98Acceptance rate: 75 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $25,500Estimated price with average grant: $12,100Percent of students who get grants: 61 percent Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee (No. 483) Overall score: 57.16Acceptance rate: 33 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $24,000Estimated price with average grant: $13,600Percent of students who get grants: 82 percent Rollins College, Winter Park (No. 580) Overall score: 50.18Acceptance rate: 61 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $74,600Estimated price with average grant: $35,100Percent of students who get grants: 76 percent Flagler College, Saint Augustine (No. 584) Overall score: 49.77Acceptance rate: 56 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $38,500Estimated price with average grant: $26,700Percent of students who get grants: 91 percent University of Miami, Coral Gables (No. 585) Overall score: 49.73Acceptance rate: 33 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $75,800Estimated price with average grant: $33,500Percent of students who get grants: 66 percent Florida Southern College, Lakeland (No. 589) Overall score: 48.81Acceptance rate: 50 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $56,600Estimated price with average grant: $28,600Percent of students who get grants: 96 percent Eckerd College, Saint Petersburg (No. 609) Overall score: 39.37Acceptance rate: 69 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $67,500Estimated price with average grant: $46,200Percent of students who get grants: 98 percent Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota (No. 616) Overall score: 36.47Acceptance rate: 69 percentEstimated full price, 2022-23: $73,700Estimated price with average grant: $56,500Percent of students who get grants: 94 percent Money also has a tool that students and parents can use to further narrow down their search and build a customized list that uses its high-value college rankings to create a grouping that best matches a student's interests. The list can be re-ranked, based on the importance of financial aid and post-graduate earnings, Money said. Nationally, the Top 10 schools based on value are: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Virginia, Charlottesville Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay Virginia Military Institute, Lexington Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Florida, Gainesville University of California, Irvine University of California, Davis