Education Atlas

College Scorecard · cost, debt & earnings

University of Florida-Online

Gainesville, FL · Public · Bachelor-granting · 4,627 undergrads · 61% admitted

Do students finish?
85% complete

Most students who start here finish.

What does it cost?
$17,843/yr net

Average annual price after grants & scholarships. ~$71,372 over four years if you finish on time.

What former students go on to earn

The middle 50% of students who received federal aid, measured 10 years after they entered (an earlier entering class — not a guarantee, and not limited to those who graduated). Earnings vary enormously by field of study.

$71,588 median, 10 yrs after entry
25th pct $47,083 median $71,588 75th pct $106,122

83% earn more than a typical high-school graduate (the dashed line above, $28,000 — a fixed, somewhat dated federal benchmark) ten years on.

Your major matters more than your school

The school-wide figure above blends every major together — but pay varies enormously by program. Pick a degree level (and search your major) to compare like-for-like.

Read these on their own terms. Program pay is measured 1 year after completing the program (early career, graduates only) — not the same as the school-wide number above, which is 10 years after a student first enrolled. Don't compare a program figure to the school figure; use the programs to compare majors to each other.

22 Bachelor's programs · $19,456 to $76,677 (1 yr out)

MajorPay · 1yr outMedian debt
Computer and Information Sciences, General.Bachelor's $76,677 $15,000
Mechanical Engineering.Bachelor's $67,197 $18,131
Fire Protection.Bachelor's $61,715
Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing.Bachelor's $60,614 $16,500
Business Administration, Management and Operations.Bachelor's $46,557 $15,000
Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication.Bachelor's $40,235 $15,321
Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences.Bachelor's $38,395 $19,737
Journalism.Bachelor's $36,136 $16,454
Geography and Cartography.Bachelor's $35,672 $16,407
Parks, Recreation, and Leisure Facilities Management.Bachelor's $33,795 $16,172
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.Bachelor's $32,008 $15,000
Visual and Performing Arts, General.Bachelor's $30,849 $18,657
Radio, Television, and Digital Communication.Bachelor's $30,778 $15,000
Criminology.Bachelor's $29,868 $15,224
Sociology.Bachelor's $26,610 $15,000
Public Health.Bachelor's $26,242 $15,454
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other.Bachelor's $24,721 $14,800
Microbiological Sciences and Immunology.Bachelor's $23,761 $14,942
Psychology, General.Bachelor's $23,033 $16,598
Communication Disorders Sciences and Services.Bachelor's $22,127 $15,000
Anthropology.Bachelor's $21,265 $14,491
Biology, General.Bachelor's $19,456 $15,000

The Dept. of Education omits programs with too few graduates (to protect privacy), so not every major appears. Pay is a median for federally-aided graduates. Full program detail on the official Scorecard.

Typical federal loan debt
$14,000
20% of one year's typical earnings here

This counts federal student loans only — not private loans, Parent PLUS loans, or family savings, so the true cost of borrowing is usually higher.

What these numbers are — and are not

Every figure here is an institution-wide median from the U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard. It is not a prediction of what you would earn or owe — a computer-science and a fine-arts graduate of the same school can earn wildly different amounts, and your field of study matters more than your school. It is not a figure for any one program, not proof the school caused the outcome (selective schools admit students who would earn more anyway), and not a "best college" ranking. Earnings and debt cover federally-aided students.

→ The number that actually answers "worth it" is earnings by major — see the by-major breakdown above (22 programs at this school).

Also available: structured data (JSON-LD) · plain text · JSON. Source: U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard (2026-06-10 release). · school website