General Education at University of Florida

If you plan to study general education, take a look at what University of Florida has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UF is located in Gainesville, Florida and has a total student population of 53,372. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 38 students received a bachelor's degree in education from UF.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in General Education section at the bottom of this page.

UF General Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Education

Online Classes Are Available at UF

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

For those who are interested in distance learning, UF does offer online courses in education for the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

UF General Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the education progam at UF compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The education major at UF is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Education. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	30

Education Student Demographics at UF

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the education majors at University of Florida.

UF General Education Bachelor’s Program

The education program at UF awarded 38 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 24% of these degrees went to men with the other 76% going to women. The typical education bachelor's degree program is made up of only 20% men. So male students are more repesented at UF since its program graduates 3% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 13% more racial-ethnic minorities in its education bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Florida with a bachelor's in education.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	9
White	18
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

UF also has a doctoral program available in education. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Educational Assessment
• Educational Administration
• Student Counseling
• Special Education
• Curriculum & Instruction

Careers That Education Grads May Go Into

A degree in education can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for FL, the home state for University of Florida.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
Education Professors	1,770	$74,190

References

*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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By DouglasGreen under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.