Research.com has named Daytona State the best among state colleges – and 46th overall – in its 2023-24 ranking of colleges in Florida.

DSC, along with Tallahassee Community College and State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota, shared top honors in two categories. Research.com ranked them first as the most popular state colleges in Florida, as well as offering the best value within the Florida College System.

Every year, online academic platform Research.com publishes its ranking of the U.S. colleges that provide their students with the most beneficial combination of affordability, quality of education, and projected alumni salary.

The ranking includes more than 1,700 institutions selected from over 6,000 institutions based on a detailed analysis of more than 400 metrics from credible sources such as IPEDS and College Scorecard and evaluated using a unique entropy method.