unitid 134097 · Tallahassee, FL · public 4-year · city (midsize)
Florida State University
Public university in Tallahassee, Florida, US
- founded
- 1851
- enrollment 2023
- 49,885
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- fsu.edu
Florida State University is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preeminent university in the state. Chartered in 1851, it is located on Florida's oldest continuous site of higher education. wikipedia rev 1359706687 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years
The record
admission rate
24%
3rd pctl among public 4-years
undergraduates
32,212
95th pctl among public 4-years
Pell share
23%
undergrads on Pell grants
25th pctl among public 4-years
completion
86%
finish within 150% time
97th pctl among public 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$25,720
68th pctl among public 4-years
avg net price / yr
$11,297
after aid, aided students
39th pctl among public 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$61,675
after entry, Title IV students
76th pctl among public 4-years
median grad debt
$18,000
38th pctl among public 4-years
what families actually pay
Cost
Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.
Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort
Families earning under $30k paid $5,938 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k30%
- 30-48k18%
- 48-75k15%
- 75-110k13%
- 110k+24%
- Median family income
- $43,729
- First-generation students
- 28%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $5,656
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.4× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology, General. | 879 | $54,829 | $19,000 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 703 | $88,996 | $18,162 |
| Marketing. | 649 | $78,277 | $18,250 |
| Criminal Justice and Corrections. | 554 | $55,220 | $21,170 |
| Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions. | 431 | — | — |
| Political Science and Government. | 421 | $69,965 | $18,700 |
| Business/Commerce, General. | 387 | $103,763 | — |
| Computer and Information Sciences, General. | 376 | $87,830 | $20,250 |
| Biology, General. | 357 | $56,744 | $21,517 |
| English Language and Literature, General. | 295 | $48,487 | $20,750 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 293 | $67,950 | $17,021 |
| International Relations and National Security Studies. | 276 | $60,401 | $17,767 |
— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.
annual scorecard files, 1996–2026
Trajectory
Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.
Admission rate
Price per year
- sticker
- net
Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry
Undergraduates
wikidata · 3,532 people recorded
Memory
Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field
Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade
People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.
Wikipedia attention
monthly article views since 2015
most recorded occupationsresearcher (830) · basketball player (471) · university teacher (217) · politician (171) · American football player (146) · writer (78) · actor (73) · baseball player (70)
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Jim Morrison
149 wikis · Public domain
Richard Simmons
83 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Faye Dunaway
75 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Burt Reynolds
75 wikis · Public domain
Hunter S. Thompson
72 wikis · Public domain
Mokgweetsi Masisi
57 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Luis Fonsi
56 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
Casper Van Dien
47 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Sylvia A. Earle
46 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Cheryl Hines
40 wikis · Public domain
Mami Yamaguchi
39 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Christine Lahti
37 wikis · CC BY 4.0
Alan Ball
34 wikis · CC BY 3.0
Joanna Garcia
34 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Dave Cowens
34 wikis · Public domain
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Provenance
- U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
- Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
- Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
- Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
- Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1359706687), CC BY-SA 4.0.