Bachelor's · Jacksonville, Florida
Is Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services, Other at Florida State College at Jacksonville worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 2.9 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $51,792
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $59,382
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $9,786
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $37k (likely $37k – $51k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $23k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in FL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 2.9 years (likely 2.0–4.4)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $24k (likely −$67k – $120k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $316k (likely $123k – $506k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 38%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Other majors at Florida State College at Jacksonville
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- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Undergraduate certificate)$65,250
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Associate's)$64,039
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services, Other at other schools in Florida
- St Petersburg College$63,162
- Miami Dade College$60,067
- Florida Atlantic University$56,162
- Florida SouthWestern State College$55,414