New College News

Choosing New College of Florida over Yale University was a decision Alyssa Boynton made wholeheartedly.

Hitting high marks across the board—for everything from academic value and affordability to civic student engagement and graduate-level opportunities—New College of Florida shines in this year’s national rankings.

Cultivating his legal prowess was a skill Michael Reese ’88 learned at New College of Florida, and the experience has served him for decades as a successful lawyer. So, in early September, Reese decided to pay it forward, donating $50,000 to his alma mater’s Law Society.

When I first came to New College of Florida a year ago, one of my priorities was to increase the College's reputation nationally. Rather than being seen as a "hidden gem," I wanted New College to be known as a "heralded gem."

As the global demand for data scientists continues to grow, New College of Florida’s Applied Data Science graduate program is training tomorrow’s leaders. Fortune magazine has named the state’s designated honors college to its list of “Best Master's in Data Science Programs in 2022.”

New College of Florida--the state’s designated honors college--has welcomed its largest incoming class since 2016.

Every year since The Princeton Review began publishing its “best colleges” rankings in 1992, New College of Florida—the state’s designated honors college—has made the list.

Fiske Guide to Colleges—one of the most widely respected college guides in the country—has named New College of Florida one of the nation’s 20 “Best Buy” Colleges and Universities of 2023.

Jayne Gardiner, Ph.D.—an associate professor of biology and the director of the Pritzker Marine Biology Research Center at New College of Florida—has been named a rotating program director for the Biological Oceanography Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF).