New College News

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).

When I first stumbled upon New College of Florida, I had no idea what I would do after graduation. I remember attending a single college fair where I walked around all of the booths manned by bored recruiters in a high school gym and, table by table, my situation looked grimmer.

New College has again been named a “College of Distinction” among public Florida institutions for 2022-2023, with recognition in two main areas: Career Development, and Equity & Inclusion (accolades the College also received for the past two academic years).

Studying French in Senegal this fall will be a dream realized for New College of Florida third-year Michael Bolesh, who was just selected to be a Boren scholar.