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New College of Florida

Sarasota, Florida

https://www.ncf.edu

#315 National Colleges

73.08% Admission Rate
Not Very Selective

702 Undergraduates Enrolled

  • Public
  • Baccalaureate Colleges: Arts & Sciences Focus
  • Four-year, full-time, more selective, lower transfer-in
  • Four-year, very small, highly residential
New College of Florida is a public liberal arts college in Sarasota, Florida. It was founded in 1960 as a private institution known simply as New College, spent several years merged into the University of South Florida, and in 2001 became an autonomous college, the eleventh independent school of the State University System of Florida. Upon achieving independence, the school adopted its current name: New College of Florida.

The school is distinguished by its unusual "contract system," in which students are given written evaluations instead of grades and agree to semester-long contracts in which a certain number of classes must be passed. For example, in a "three out of five" contract, a student who failed two classes would face no penalty, although one who failed three classes would risk losing the entire semester's credits. The system was devised to encourage academic experimentation and foster curiosity about disparate topics outside one's usual course of study.

New College students are required to complete an undergraduate thesis project and baccalaureate exam, during which the student presents and defends their project to a committee of professors.

New College has by far the smallest student population in the State University System of Florida with only 675 students as of the Fall 2020 semester.

"New College of Florida." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 15 February 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_College_of_Florida.
Location

City
Sarasota, Florida

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Locale
City: Small (population less than 100,000)

Region
Southeast (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

Academics

Predominant Degree Awarded
Predominantly bachelor's-degree granting

Highest Degree Awarded
Graduate degree

Most Popular Fields

Field % Students
Liberal Arts And Sciences, General Studies And Humanities 47.4%
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies 38.5%
Foreign Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics 8.5%
Natural Resources And Conservation 5.6%

Cost

In State Tuition
$6,916.00

Out of State Tuition
$29,944.00

Percentage Students Receiving Aid
31.81%

Average Net Cost After Aid
$8,516.00

Admissions

SAT Scores

1286 Composite Average
Percentile 75% 50% 25%
Math 660 610 560
Verbal 700 660 620

ACT Scores

28 Cumulative Average
Percentile 75% 50% 25%
Math 28 26 23
English 33 29 25