by our College Data Analytics Team
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Nova Southeastern University was awarded 42 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is rehabilitation & therapeutic professions.
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College Factual ranked NUS Florida as #263 out of 2,152 colleges and universities in the country on its 2025 Best Colleges list. This puts it in the top 20% of all schools in the nation. This is an improvement over the previous year, when NUS Florida held the #310 spot on the Best Overall Colleges list.
NUS Florida also holds the #14 spot on the Best Colleges in Florida ranking.
When it comes to admittance, Nova Southeastern University is somewhat selective. Its acceptance rate is 76%, which means you'll face some strong competition during the admissions process. Do what you can to make your application stand out.
About 48% of students accepted to NUS Florida submitted their SAT scores. When looking at the 25th through the 75th percentile, SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing scores ranged between 530 and 650. Math scores were between 510 and 660.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to estimate how much interaction there is between professors and their students at a college or university. At Nova Southeastern University, this ratio is 17 to 1, which is on par with the national average of 15 to 1. That's not bad at all.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at Nova Southeastern University is 43%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 78% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like Nova Southeastern University enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At NUS Florida the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 54%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at Nova Southeastern University.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 6,314 undergraduates at NUS Florida with 5,366 being full-time and 948 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $25,742 | $25,619 | $29,584 | $30,498 | $31,944 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of NUS Florida, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At NUS Florida, approximately 44% of students took out student loans averaging $8,180 a year. That adds up to $32,720 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for NUS Florida are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 3300 S. University Drive, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33328-2004 |
| Phone: | 954-262-7300 |
| Website: | www.nova.edu/ |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing | 724 | $77,224 |
| Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology | 477 | NA |
| General Biology | 328 | $23,110 |
| General Education | 318 | NA |
| Allied Health Professions | 290 | $74,202 |
| Medicine | 277 | NA |
| Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences | 261 | NA |
| Business Administration & Management | 216 | $49,156 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 216 | NA |
| Communication Sciences | 197 | NA |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2022-2023, 10,831 students took at least one online class at Nova Southeastern University. This is a decrease from the 10,867 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 10,831 | 5,437 |
| 2021-2022 | 10,867 | 5,804 |
| 2020-2021 | 10,423 | 5,971 |
| 2018-2019 | 9,489 | 6,497 |
Learn more about online learning at Nova Southeastern University.
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Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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