Fast Facts
Note: 2023-2024 data unless otherwise noted
Fifth Largest
5th largest of the 28 colleges in the Florida College System. (2022-2023)
Student Profile
37,000 students (including Corporate & Continuing Education)
• 36% Hispanic • 28% Black • 27% White • 9% all others
Financial Aid
$89M+ awarded in financial aid, including scholarships.
Economic Impact on Palm Beach County
• $1.4 billion. For every $1 of spending, students gain $6.40 in lifetime earnings, taxpayers gain $2.90 in added tax revenue and public sector savings, and society gains $13 in added income and social savings.
- Founded in 1933 as Florida's first public junior college
- Merged with Roosevelt Junior College in 1965
- Changed name from Palm Beach Junior College to Palm Beach Community College in 1988
- Began offering its first bachelor's degree in fall 2009
- Changed named to Palm Beach State College on Jan. 12, 2010 to reflect new bachelor's degree offerings
- Governed by a five-member District Board of Trustees appointed by the governor
- Fifth largest of the 28 colleges comprising the Florida College System
- Average class size of 23
Belle Glade | Boca Raton | Lake Worth | Loxahatchee Groves | Palm Beach Gardens
The College also has a satellite location in the Count and Countess de Hoernle Historic
Building in West Palm Beach.
130+ programs of study
- Bachelor of Applied Science in Supervision and Management
- Bachelor of Applied Science in Information Management
- Bachelor of Science in Cardiopulmonary Sciences
- Bachelor of Science in Human Services
- Bachelor of Science in Medical Imaging
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- Associate in Arts transfer degree
- Associate in Science career degrees
- College credit certificates
- Job preparatory programs
- Corporate and Continuing Education
- Customized training
- Lifelong learning
5,559 Degrees & Certificates Awarded (2023-2024)
- 497 Bachelor's
- 2,827 A.A.
- 598 A.S.
- 1,637 Certificates
College credit courses:
Florida resident: $101.00/credit hour
Non-Florida resident: $363.00/credit hour
Bachelor's degree courses:
Florida resident: $122.85/credit hour
Non-Florida resident: $558.00/credit hour
CCP courses:
Florida resident: $83.40/credit hour, $2.78/contact hour
Non-Florida resident: $327.30/credit hour, $10.91/contact hour
- 35,107 students (not including Corporate & Continuing Education)
- 324 enrolled in the Dr. Floyd F. Koch Honors College (2022-2023)
- 31% full-time (fall students enrolled in credit, developmental education, and CCP courses)
- 69% part-time (fall students enrolled in credit, developmental education, and CCP courses)
- 60% female, 39% male, 1% not declared (fall students enrolled in credit, developmental education, and CCP courses)
- 36% Hispanic, 28% Black, 27% White, 9% all others
- Average age 24 (fall students enrolled in credit, developmental education, and CCP courses)
- 153 -- Number of countries and territories represented among all students
- Mascot: Panthers
- Conference: National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division II in the Sun Lakes Conference, Region VIII
- NJCAA Teams: Men’s Baseball, Men’s and Women’s Basketball, Women’s Volleyball and Beach Volleyball, and Women's Golf (Division I)
- Club Sports Teams: Women’s Soccer
- Colors: Green and Gold
Operating Budget (2024-2025)
$148,059,283
Palm Beach State Tuition is Among the Lowest in Florida
Search the U.S. Department of Education database on college costs, based on 2022-2023 data, which shows that Palm Beach State had one of the lowest tuitions in Florida.
