Ranked #37 in popularity, humanities is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Florida to determine which ones were the best for humanities students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 166 degrees in humanities during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The humanities program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Humanities rankings. We derive our Best Overall Humanities School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Humanities Schools in Florida list to help you make the college decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of humanities degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It is hard to beat University of South Florida - Main Campus if you wish to pursue a degree in humanities. USF Tampa is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Tampa. This university ranks 8th out of 77 schools for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were about 17 humanities students who graduated with this degree at USF Tampa in the most recent data year.
Every student pursuing a degree in humanities has to check out Florida State University. Located in the medium-sized city of Tallahassee, Florida State is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #121 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Florida State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 109 humanities students who graduated with this degree at Florida State in the most recent data year.
University of Central Florida is a great choice for students interested in a degree in humanities. UCF is a very large public university located in the large suburb of Orlando. A Best Colleges rank of #193 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UCF is a great university overall.
There were approximately 8 humanities students who graduated with this degree at UCF in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Ave Maria University if you want to pursue a degree in humanities. AMU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the rural area of Ave Maria. This university ranks 56th out of 77 schools for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were about 5 humanities students who graduated with this degree at AMU in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The humanities program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Humanities rankings. We derive our Best Overall Humanities School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
