Applied Psychology is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #282 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Florida to determine which ones were the best for applied psychology students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 242 degrees in applied psychology annually.
The applied psychology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Applied Psychology rankings. We derive our Best Overall Applied Psychology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Applied Psychology Schools in Florida ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the applied psychology degrees they offer, see the list below.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in applied psychology. Embry-Riddle Daytona Beach is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Daytona Beach. A Best Colleges rank of #187 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Embry-Riddle Daytona Beach is a great university overall.
There were roughly 71 applied psychology students who graduated with this degree at Embry-Riddle Daytona Beach in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in applied psychology has to check out Hodges University. International College is a fairly small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Fort Myers. This university ranks 63rd out of 70 schools for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were approximately 20 applied psychology students who graduated with this degree at International College in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Florida Institute of Technology - Online if you want to pursue a degree in applied psychology. Located in the small city of Melbourne, Florida Institute of Technology - Online is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population. This school ranks 55th out of 70 schools for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were roughly 62 applied psychology students who graduated with this degree at Florida Institute of Technology - Online in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
The applied psychology program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Applied Psychology rankings. We derive our Best Overall Applied Psychology School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
