Florida Southwestern State College
School info
3.6
Overall Quality
Reputation
3.5
Food
3.3
Clubs
3.1
Facilities
3.9
Internet
3.5
Location
3.9
Opportunities
3.4
Safety
3.9
Social
3.2
Happiness
3.8
Basic Information
Institution Overview
- Public/Private: Public college
- Established: 1962; 62 years ago (1962)
- Founder: Florida Legislature
Academic information
Degree Courses
- Around 40-50 degree courses
Key Area
- Water research
- tracking box turtles
- creating art
- writing and publishing books
- researching and archiving local history
Student and Staff Numbers
- Students: Between 13,860 and 13,276 students, depending on the semester
- Undergraduates: 14,326 (fall 2022)
- Postgraduates: 0
- Academic Staff: 194 (full-time)338 (part-time)
Notable Alumni
- Charles Ghigna
- Matt Hudson
- Tina Wainscott
- Fuzzy Zoeller
- Matt Caldwell
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Students talk about this school
Good reviews
Overall 5
Passed with an A. She’s a good teacher.
Overall 5
Great school.
Overall 5
Overall great school
Overall 5
Great first college before going into bachelor's degree. The staff is very friendly and actually wants you to pass. They will stick with you until the end and are very supportive if you are active on campus.
Overall 5
It's a great community college, you get what you put in. They give you what you need, there is a ton of resources you can receive from the school if you just ask for it.
Overall 5
I love it I've had the most wonderful experience as a student and am happy with the curriculum. I think the work is rewarding and challenging it makes me feel like I have accomplished so much. I am glad to be here and will graduate next year on time hopefully with honors. I would recommend the experience to others
Overall 5
Great college to earn your AA
Overall 5
Love all activities
Overall 5
Great Campus, everyone that works here really like their job, from Professor to advisers, to the cleaning people or landscaping, everyone its very polite.
Overall 5
After having the privilege of earning my education here at FSW I look back on my years spent with this institution. I will be finishing up my last semester this fall and it saddens me to have to leave the family I have grown so close to over the years. My time spent here has shaped me into the person I am and will become.
Bad reviews
Overall 1
Not a good school.
Overall 1
This school has the worst setup you could imagine. The faculty is very informative and impolite. They are not organized at all and I regret coming here.
Overall 1.3
Rather be at a bigger and better university like UF, FSU or UCF, the students have no life and dont care about the events or clubs, there just here to get there degree and leave, Im just trying to get 30 credits then transfer to a bigger and better university thats better for academics and social atmosphere. Needs Greek Life.
Overall 1.5
Edison State College is the name they lost because of President Ken Walker. He screwed up so bad that they had to change the name to this certificate school sounding name with out any votes going to the kids paying to go there. Thanks to him they actually lost college accreditation for a little bit while I was going there. Professors were great.
Overall 1.5
A lot of issues with the teachers not being professional. A lot of issues with academic advising (to which they will all blame on you of course). Also, a lot of issues with parking and there aren't any social events.
Overall 1.5
Alright. You've seen most of the ratings, now here's mine. FSW is a dual enrolled infested school. You'll see kids trying to level up and earn college classes and screw ups like myself trying to get on with the world. There's also decent kids who genuinely LOVE FSW, but hey, that's them. FSW is a last resort. Don't go unless you have to.
Overall 1.5
They decided to add housing and an arena to be more like a university when really the events, clubs and social life suck. Housing is strict and the security there are really annoying. They treat you as if you are in high school. Mainly this school is average but it needs greeklife and better events if they want to look like the bigger universites.
Overall 1.5
Unless your here just to get your degree, this school lacks everything you expected. The social life is terrible cause no one has a life and is weird. The clubs suck, the events like soprts suck, and the atmosphere overall is terrible. Housing has too many rules and worst of all no one partakes in anything fun and theres no Greek life.
Overall 1.9
Dorming is way to strict. No social activities that spark interest. A very nice school to get your AA at.
Overall 2
Unimpressive community college , also just work from home or a library computer . The wireless internet was always unreliable every time I tried to use it .