New College
of Florida
Public College in Sarasota, FL. Six-year graduation rate 67%. Median 10-year earnings $48,082.
Ten years after entry, the median New College of Florida student earns $48,082 — a solidly middle-of-the-pack result for an undergraduate institution. Completion is a strength: 67% of students finish within six years. Debt at graduation runs to a median of $17,375, neither a bargain nor a burden.
Earnings: College Scorecard, median ten years after entry across students who received federal aid — completers and non-completers alike.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Admissions
New College of Florida accepts 73% of applicants, which makes it accessible to most students who meet the baseline requirements. 1,623 applications came in, enough to make the rates below reasonably stable year to year. Yield is low at 19%, so most admitted students do not end up enrolling. Score ranges below describe the middle half of score submitters among enrolled first-years; students who applied test-optional are not represented in them.
Test score bands (middle 50% of submitters)
These bands describe the enrolled first-years who submitted a score, not the entering class. Where most students apply test-optional the submitters are a self-selected, higher-scoring group.
| Test | 25th–75th percentile | Submitted |
|---|---|---|
| SAT Evidence-Based Reading | 540–625 | 153 (70%) |
| SAT Math | 520–620 | |
| ACT Composite | 21–26 | 79 (36%) |
IPEDS Admissions · 2024
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A 67% six-year graduation rate is the strongest academic signal on this page. Retention of 76% means a meaningful slice of each entering class does not return. A 21% transfer-out rate accounts for part of that gap: those students left for another institution rather than dropping out, and the graduation rate above counts them as non-completers here. At 8:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. This is a public four-year university, so read every rate on this page against that peer group specifically.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 708 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
Average net price is $9,078 a year after grant aid — low for a four-year institution, though your own figure depends on aid eligibility. Aid is steeply need-based: families in the $0–30k band pay $3,591 while those at $110k+ pay $13,586. 98% of students get grant aid averaging $15,216, so the published price is a poor guide to what most pay. Only 19% take federal loans. Private borrowing is not captured in this figure.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 221 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $3,591 |
| $30–48k | $3,582 |
| $48–75k | $4,880 |
| $75–110k | $10,204 |
| $110k+ | $13,586 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 134 of these 708 students, totalling $704,553 — an average of $5,258 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Sarasota County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026
Veterans & GI Bill
VA GI Bill Comparison Tool (Veterans Affairs GIDS)