Demographics FSU
Demographics
Florida State University enrolled 31,058 undergraduates and 9,416 graduate and professional students in 2006. Tuition was $3,748 (in-state) and $17,916 (out-of-state) per term. The Fall 2008 enrolled freshmen class had an average GPA of 3.8; an average SAT of 1265 and an average ACT of 28. The freshman acceptance rate for the Fall 2007 semester was 48%. FSU has a 68% six-year graduation rate compared to the national average six-year graduation rate of 53%. FSU’s freshman retention rate is 90%. In 2007, FSU undergraduate, and 2007-2008 Student Body President, Joe O’Shea won the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship award. O’Shea is the third FSU student overall to win this award; the second since 2005 when Garrett Johnson won the award. Only 32 students in the United States won the award in 2007.
Florida State University is currently ranked 49th among public universities and 102nd overall in Tier 1 for National Universities by U.S. News and World Report. This institution ranks in the top 200 among world universities, among the top 100 American universities, and in the top 90 among universities in the United States by The Academic Ranking of World Universities, 30th among U.S. publics and 76th among all U.S. universities by Forbes magazine, 50th among American universities by Webometrics, and in the 9th tier among national public universities by The Center for Measuring University Performance. Florida State University was ranked 15th nationally in the February 2008 edition of Kiplinger’s Best Values in Public Colleges. FSU is the second-least-expensive flagship university in the United States, according to USA Today.
Many of FSU’s academic programs rank among the nation’s top twenty-five public universities, including programs in Business (Accounting, Real Estate, Management Information Systems, Risk Management/Insurance, Entrepreneurial Studies), Chemistry, Creative Writing, Criminology, Dance, Education, Film, Human Sciences, Hospitality, Information Technology, Law, Meteorology, Music, Oceanography, Physics, Political Science, Public Administration and Policy, Social Work, Spanish, Theatre, Urban Planning, and Visual Art.