Florida Tech is one just 30 undergraduate institutions nationwide – and one of two in Florida – named to The Princeton Review’s Mental Health Services Honor Roll for 2026.
The Honor Roll identifies institutions that demonstrate a strong commitment to their students’ mental health and well-being. The Review selected the schools for this list based on data from its 2025 Campus Mental Health Survey, which polled administrators at 540 colleges. Administrators answered 57 questions about their school’s counseling, mental health and wellness services for students.
Students from 300 colleges were also surveyed about their awareness of their school’s mental health services.
The criteria for the 2026 Honor Roll selections broadly covered three areas:
- Whether students have a campus quality of life that is both healthy and attentive to their overall well-being
- How well a school is empowering its students to address their own mental health through education programs and peer-to-peer offerings
- The overall administrative support for campus mental health and well-being through policies, including commitments to staffing and student support
At Florida Tech, student mental health is available through multiple programs, services and providers. The Student Counseling Center provides free clinical services; Wolzer Health Psychiatry offers counseling and psychiatric care; and the CARE Team responds to anonymous, non-emergent reports. Florida Tech also provides direct support through TalkCampus, a 24/7 app-based peer resource and matches new students with upper-level students through the Panther Peer Mentor Program. And that’s just a few of the resources available.
Florida Tech also sends out regular surveys and works with a mental health task force to ensure that they are adjusting to meet students’ evolving wellness needs.
David McMahan, vice president for student affairs, noted that Florida Tech is “assertively engaged” in cultivating a culture of caring and belonging for its students.
“We do not seek to out-staff or outspend the mental health concerns we are seeing, so we are continuously working to develop and strengthen an array of impactful resources to meet our students’ needs with expertise and empathy,” McMahan said.
Given the stress, anxiety and other mental health issues college students often deal with, the availability of campus mental health services has become vitally important, said Rob Franek, The Princeton Review‘s editor-in-chief.
“We are honored to commend Florida Tech for prioritizing the mental health of its students and all the ways it is demonstrating commitment to promoting their student’s overall well-being,” he said.
The Review also works to promote awareness of campus mental health services among college applicants and students enrolled at the schools. Using data from its administrator survey, the company has reported information about 540 schools’ mental health services in its profiles of the schools.
The full Mental Health Services Honor Roll list for 2026 is posted on The Princeton Review’s website.
