2022 Best Value Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Florida

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Florida” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Humanities is the 31st most popular major in the country with 23,605 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Florida, there were 164 humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 160 humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,173 and $25,318 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Florida” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in humanities. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent humanities programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the humanities program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Florida” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Florida

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Florida.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Humanities in Florida

#1

University of Central Florida

Orlando, Florida

#2 in overall quality

$10,274 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Florida that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Florida landed the #1 spot on the list. UCF is a large school located in Orlando, Florida that handed out 13 bachelors’s humanities degrees in 2019-2020.

UCF also took the #2 spot in our “Best Humanities Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Florida” ranking. It costs about $10,274 for Florida Bachelor’s Degree Humanities students per year to attend UCF.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The low student loan default rate of 4.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full University of Central Florida Humanities Report

#2

University of South Florida - Main Campus

Tampa, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$8,355 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of South Florida - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Florida. Tampa, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s humanities degrees to 18 students in 2019-2020.

USF Tampa not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Humanities Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Florida” list. It costs about $8,355 for Florida Bachelor’s Degree Humanities students per year to attend University of South Florida - Main Campus.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

Read more about Humanities at University of South Florida - Main Campus

#3

Florida State University

Tallahassee, Florida

#3 in overall quality

$9,789 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Humanities Schools for a Bachelor’s in Florida that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida State University landed the #3 spot on the list. This large school is located in Tallahassee, Florida, and it awarded 107 bachelors’s humanities degrees in 2019-2020.

Florida State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Humanities Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Florida” list. It costs about $9,789 for Florida Bachelor’s Degree Humanities students per year to attend Florida State.

The low student loan default rate of 3.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.

Full Florida State University Humanities Report

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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