Database and Data Management

Designing, building and running the systems organisations keep their data in. ⚠⚠⚠ The finding that shapes every decision here: Florida has essentially NO undergraduate database degree. The dedicated code produces 62 credentials a year and 61 of them are ONE master's programme at UWF — so the route into this work runs through computer science, information technology or information systems, and the database specialism is assembled from courses rather than handed over as a major.

The degrees this program covers

⚠⚠⚠ THE DEGREE DOES NOT EXIST, AND THAT IS THE POINT. Data Modeling/Warehousing and Database Administration (11.0802) is recorded at 5 Florida public institutions and produces 62 credentials a year — University of West Florida 61 at MASTER'S level, Hillsborough 1 associate, and Daytona State, Miami Dade and Florida Polytechnic recording programmes that awarded nothing in the year measured. ⚠ So an eighteen-year-old cannot enrol in a Florida public bachelor's in database administration, because there is not one to enrol in. ⚠⚠ What exists instead is the course layer, and it is large: 21 Florida public institutions teach the upper-division database course, plus 9 carrying COP2700 at introductory level and a substantial Oracle and SQL Server certificate tier in the state colleges. ⚠⚠⚠ AND IT IS TAUGHT IN THREE DIFFERENT COLLEGES UNDER THREE DIFFERENT PREFIXES, under SEVEN statewide numbers — COP3703, COP4703, COP3710, COP4710 (computer science), ISM3212, ISM4212 (information systems, in the business school) and CTS4408 (applied computer technology). ⚠ SEVEN institutions carry more than one of the seven, and FIU and USF each carry THREE — which is the proof that these are not one course filed differently but genuinely different courses for different audiences. ⚠⚠ So the practical advice is: pick the degree for the rest of what it teaches, then make sure the database course you take is the one your target employer's work resembles. The theory course, the business course and the administration course are not substitutes.

Careers this program leads to

Each one sets out the courses along the way, the licence or certification at the end, and the sources behind it.

Database Administrator and Database Architect

⚠⚠⚠ One job title and two occupations, moving in opposite directions. Database ADMINISTRATORS earn a $104,620 median and are projected at 0% growth over 2025-35; database ARCHITECTS earn $139,500 and are projected at +9% — with FEWER people and MORE annual openings. ⚠⚠ And Florida has no undergraduate database degree at all: the dedicated code produces 62 credentials a year and 61 are one UWF master's. So the specialism is assembled from courses, under seven competing statewide numbers in three different colleges.

Programs similar to this one

Neighbouring fields that share much of the same coursework, and often the same employers. ⚠ Read these before you commit to a major — which doors a neighbouring degree keeps open is the part no catalog tells you, and it is far cheaper to change now than later.

Computer Science 16 Florida schools

⚠⚠ The main route, and the one that leads to the better-paid half of the work. Database ARCHITECT — the design side — posts a $139,500 median against database administration's $104,620, and the design courses (COP4710, COP3710) sit in the computer science college. ⚠ 16 Florida institutions award computer science against one live database programme.

Information Technology 39 Florida schools

⚠ The widest route by far — 39 Florida institutions — and the one the Oracle and SQL Server certificate tier attaches to. ⚠⚠ It is the fastest way into a database job and the slowest way to the architect half: BLS projects database ADMINISTRATORS at 0% growth over 2025-35 and architects at +9%. Enter here, but aim past it.

Management Information Systems 13 Florida schools

⚠⚠ The third route, and the one students overlook. ISM3212 and ISM4212 are the same subject taught from the business side — data as something an organisation decides with, rather than a system to be optimised. ⚠ Ten Florida institutions carry those two numbers, and for analytics and reporting work it is the better preparation.

Data Science and Analytics 13 Florida schools

⚠ The adjacent destination, and the boundary is real: a data scientist builds models from data, a database architect builds the thing the data lives in. ⚠⚠ They share the SQL and the warehousing courses — CAP4770 Data Mining is carried by 9 Florida institutions and CAP4774 Data Warehousing by 3 — and diverge on statistics.

Cybersecurity 35 Florida schools

⚠ Named for a specific course: CIS4368 Database Security and Audits runs at FAMU, FGCU, USF and UWF, and database security is where the two fields actually meet. ⚠⚠ A database professional who can speak to auditors is paid differently from one who cannot.

Florida public institutions offering this program

5 institutions awarded a credential in this field in 2023, at these levels: Associate, Bachelor's, Master's. A school appears here if it awards anything in the field, however limited its offering — a technical college teaching only practical nursing has a nursing program. Listed alphabetically, not ranked.

Daytona State College

Associate

Florida Polytechnic University

Bachelor's

Hillsborough Community College

Associate

Miami Dade College

Associate

University of West Florida

Master's

Source: federal IPEDS completions data for 2023, first majors only — the most recent year published. ⚠ It records what was awarded, which is strong evidence of what is offered, but a program launched since 2023 will not appear here. Check the institution’s own catalog before applying.

Updated 22 September 2026. ⚠ Program pages describe a field of study, not one school’s degree — always read the catalog of the institution you are applying to.