College profile
The University of Tampa
FL · Private nonprofit · Large city · 35,353 applicants 2023
A parent's read
- Top feeder high schools: Syosset Senior High School (7), Bishop Feehan (4), The Pennington School (4), The Williston Northampton School (4), Episcopal School of Jacksonville (3.8). Graduates per class year, from each high school's own published list. 82 high schools' lists name The University of Tampa; every one is ranked below.
- The 4× payoff headline requires aid. Without aid this runs ~$51,614/yr. There's no income cutoff for need-based aid — whether you qualify depends on the gap between a school's price and your family's finances, so at a price like this even six-figure incomes often show need. Families who receive aid average ~$36,211/yr — against that, ten years of median earnings run ~4× the cost. Run the college's own net-price calculator before anchoring on the multiple.
- Ask the submit question deliberately. This college is test-optional — but at many such colleges, applicants who submit strong scores are admitted at meaningfully higher rates. “Optional” is a strategy decision, not a pass.
Composed from this page's data — every claim is backed by a number in the sections below.
Feeder high schools
Which high schools send graduates to The University of Tampa?
The high schools sending the most graduates per class year to The University of Tampa, from each school's own published list: Syosset Senior High School (7), Bishop Feehan (4), The Pennington School (4), The Williston Northampton School (4), Episcopal School of Jacksonville (3.8). 82 high schools' lists name The University of Tampa.
Enrolled — from the schools' matriculation lists
All 82 schools, with the class years each list covers
Published, but not ranked — these schools name The University of Tampa on a list of where their graduates enrolled whose class years we cannot read ("Since 2023", or no class year printed), so their totals are shown rather than divided: Garrison Forest School (1, Three-Year Survey).
How this is counted
82 high schools publish a numbered matriculation list — where their graduates actually enrolled, counted, in the school's own School Profile — and name The University of Tampa on it. Between them they printed 221 enrolled graduates. Ranked by graduates per class year enrolling at The University of Tampa, from each school's own published list: the number that school printed, divided by the class years its list covers. The published total and the school's own years label are shown beside every school, so a one-year list and a five-year list can sit on the same page. A list whose class years we cannot read is not divided by a guess — it is listed below with its total instead.
Is my high school on this list?
Admitted — from the schools' acceptance lists
All 15 schools, with the class years each list covers
Published, but not ranked — these schools name The University of Tampa on a list of the colleges that admitted their graduates whose class years we cannot read ("Since 2023", or no class year printed), so their totals are shown rather than divided: Seven Lakes High School (3, not stated).
How this is counted
15 high schools publish a numbered list of college acceptances — where their graduates were admitted, not where they enrolled — and name The University of Tampa on it. Between them they printed 114 admissions. Ranked by admissions per class year to The University of Tampa, from each school's own published acceptances list: the number that school printed, divided by the class years its list covers. Admits are counted at each college a student was admitted to, the same way the UC Reach Score counts a student admitted to three UC campuses three times — so this is a count of admissions, not of students. The published total and the school's own years label are shown beside every school, and a list whose class years we cannot read is listed below with its total rather than divided by a guess.
All 95 feeder schools, ranked →
Counted from each school's own published document, linked on that school's page. A high school that is not here does not publish a numbered list we could read — that is all absence means, and it says nothing about its graduates. Where a school publishes both, the two lists are shown separately: an acceptances list is not a list of enrollments, and the two are never added together.
Parent/student verdict
Moderately selectiveSolid match for academically prepared students.
Best for
- Students focused on Business, Management, & Marketing (the school's signature program)
Verdict is composed from this college's structured data (admit rate, SAT bands, net price with aid and at full price, Carnegie classification, scholarship grids) using transparent rule thresholds — not a chat-bot's opinion.
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Institutional snapshot
What kind of college is this?
Source: federal IPEDS Admissions 2023 for scores + admit rate; federal College Scorecard (20260606 vintage) for earnings + outcomes. SAT/ACT bands are the 25th–75th percentile of enrolled submitters.
Outcomes & cost
What graduates actually earn, finish, and owe.
Federal College Scorecard data. Earnings are median annual income measured years after entering. Debt is for federal-aid borrowers only (cash-pay students aren't counted).
The real cost
What The University of Tampa actually costs
Which side your family lands on isn't set by any national income line — it's set by The University of Tampa's own aid decision: the gap between its price and your family's finances.
Your odds + estimated cost across your whole college list, side by side.
The payoffTen years of typical graduate pay minus four years of cost — how many dollars ahead a typical graduate runs by year ten. Check both the full-price and with-aid versions to see which applies to you; median pay reflects who a college admits and what they study as much as the college itself., both ways
+$388K ahead at full price +$450K with aidSource: College Scorecard (average net price among Title IV first-time, full-time undergraduates who received aid) and each college's published cost of attendance. We don't show the federal net-price-by-income brackets: their categories were fixed in 2008 and never adjusted, and none of the averages is your family's own number — the full story. Payoff = (10-yr median earnings × 10) − (4 years of cost), in dollars — how far ahead a typical graduate runs by year ten; medians travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college itself. Full price is the published cost of attendance; earnings are 10 years after enrollment, all majors combined.
What students study here
Most popular majors at The University of Tampa
Top 5 fields of study by bachelor's degrees awarded (most recent IPEDS Completions). Use this to see what The University of Tampa actually graduates — not just what it markets.
What those majors earn here
Median earnings 4 years after entry, by major — The University of Tampa's own graduates, not national averages.
| Major (CIP) | 4-yr earnings |
|---|---|
| Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management. | $99,980 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | $90,485 |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. | $89,223 |
| Accounting and Related Services. | $84,875 |
| International Business. | $75,090 |
| Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences, General. | $72,531 |
| Marketing. | $69,876 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | $67,521 |
| Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations. | $64,034 |
| Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication. | $63,368 |
Sources: IPEDS Completions (C2023_a; bachelor's-level first majors, 2-digit CIP family — share is of the top 5 only) · College Scorecard program-level outcomes (PP-FOS). Full college-vs-major comparison: /college-outcomes →
Student body & economic mobility
Who attends here — and what the campus adds.
Opportunity Insights data. It measures two things at once: how many lower-income students a college enrols, and how many of them reach the top earnings quintile later. A high rate says the college does both — it does not establish that the campus caused the earnings, because the students it admits differ from the students it doesn't. Read it as a signal about access and destination, not as proof of value added.
Full leaderboards: /college-mobility →
AI program signal
AI + computing education at The University of Tampa
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At a glance
JSON · Using this page with an AI assistantThe University of Tampa is a private nonprofit four-year college in FL. It admitted 41% of applicants (35,353 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.
Cost: about $36,211 a year on average with aid, $51,614 a year at full price.
Median earnings ten years after entry: $59,436 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $449,516 ahead with aid, $387,904 ahead at full price.
Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management ($99,980); Finance and Financial Management Services ($90,485); Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing ($89,223).
Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 8% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 32% of those reached the top fifth as adults.
High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name The University of Tampa: 82, 221 enrolled students between them — ranked by graduates per class year, most often Syosset Senior High School (7.0 per class year, 7 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); Bishop Feehan (4.0 per class year, 4 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); The Pennington School (4.0 per class year, 4 over 1 class year, Class of 2026). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/the-university-of-tampa.
High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming The University of Tampa: 15, 114 admissions between them — ranked by admissions per class year, most often St Andrews School of Boca Raton Inc (25.0 per class year, 25 over 1 class year, Class of 2026); Millburn High School (18.0 per class year, 18 over 1 class year, Class of 2025, counted column "ACC=Accepted"); Canterbury School-Fort Myers (14.0 per class year, 14 over 1 class year, Class of 2026). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/the-university-of-tampa.
Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/the-university-of-tampa.json
Questions families ask
What is The University of Tampa's acceptance rate? The University of Tampa is a private nonprofit four-year college in FL. It admitted 41% of applicants (35,353 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.
Does The University of Tampa require the SAT or ACT? The University of Tampa is a private nonprofit four-year college in FL. It admitted 41% of applicants (35,353 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.
How much does The University of Tampa cost? Cost: about $36,211 a year on average with aid, $51,614 a year at full price.
What do The University of Tampa graduates earn? Median earnings ten years after entry: $59,436 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $449,516 ahead with aid, $387,904 ahead at full price.
Which majors at The University of Tampa pay the most? Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management ($99,980); Finance and Financial Management Services ($90,485); Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing ($89,223).
Which high schools send the most graduates to The University of Tampa? The high schools sending the most graduates per class year to The University of Tampa, from each school's own published list: Syosset Senior High School (7), Bishop Feehan (4), The Pennington School (4), The Williston Northampton School (4), Episcopal School of Jacksonville (3.8). 82 high schools' lists name The University of Tampa.
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