The Best Master's in Supply Chain Management Programs in Florida for 2027

Four years out, medians on this list run from $90,641 at Florida A&M to $112,594 at South Florida.

South Florida leads on both counts: the top rank among these schools and the highest graduate pay.

Florida's supply chain programs split cleanly into two cost tiers. Public in-state tuition clusters tight and cheap: Florida Atlantic University ($2,522), Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University ($3,152), University of North Florida ($3,996), University of South Florida ($4,559), and Florida International University ($4,721) all sit within $2,200 of each other. Private options run far higher: Ana G. Mendez University ($11,850), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide ($12,072), Florida Southern College ($42,900), and Florida Institute of Technology's on-campus program ($44,620).

Show the math on the two ends. Florida Institute of Technology's $44,620 in-state tuition sits $42,098 above Florida Atlantic University's $2,522, for degrees IPEDS classifies the same way. Using the BLS national median salary of $103,155 a year as a common yardstick, not a school-specific outcome, FAU's tuition equals about 2.4% of that median, roughly nine days of pay. FIT's on-campus tuition equals 43.3% of the same median, north of five months of gross pay for one year of school. University of South Florida, the top-ranked program in this group, costs $4,559 in-state, about 4.4% of the median, or roughly two and a half weeks of pay.

Sticker price and total program price aren't always the same number. Florida International University reports $4,721 in IPEDS annual in-state tuition, but FIU's own program page quotes a full-program total of $28,000 for Florida residents to complete its 10-month MS in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, about 27% of the national median salary, or roughly three months of pay, for the entire degree.

One more cost wrinkle worth knowing before applying: University of South Florida's dedicated MS in Supply Chain Management, the top-ranked program in this Florida list, has paused new admissions as of this writing, with the school steering prospective applicants toward its MBA with a Supply Chain Management concentration instead. That's worth confirming directly with USF's Muma College of Business, and it makes Florida International University's live, 10-month, $4,721-a-year cohort program the more realistic low-cost pick for a Florida resident who wants a dedicated MS supply chain degree admitting students right now.

Supply chain management is not a licensed profession the way nursing or public accounting is. No Florida board sits between a graduate of any of these supply chain programs and the job title. What the field has instead is ASCM, the Association for Supply Chain Management (formerly APICS), which administers two widely recognized voluntary credentials: CPIM (Certified in Planning and Inventory Management), focused on internal planning and inventory operations, and CSCP (Certified Supply Chain Professional), covering the full chain from supplier to customer.

Neither credential is required to hold a supply chain management degree or to work in logistics and operations, but employers in Florida's ports and distribution hubs treat them as a proficiency signal layered on top of the degree. None of the 9 programs ranked here report a school-specific ASCM pass rate, so treat any pass-rate claim on a program's own marketing page as that school's claim, not an independently verified statistic. Confirm current exam scope and eligibility directly at ASCM's site before budgeting time or money toward either exam.

For supply chain programs housed inside a business school, AACSB accreditation is the marker that matters most. Fewer than a quarter of business schools worldwide hold it, and earning it means a multi-year audit of faculty qualifications, curriculum rigor, and assurance-of-learning processes, not a one-time application. University of North Florida's MS in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, for example, sits inside the AACSB-accredited Coggin College of Business in Jacksonville, a detail confirmed on the program's own page.

Not every program in this Florida ranking sits inside a traditional business school. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Worldwide, built around aviation and aerospace operations, doesn't fit the same AACSB business-school mold as USF, FIU, or UNF, so a prospective student there should check accreditation status directly rather than assume it. When a program's own page cites AACSB accreditation or any other third-party ranking, this guide reports it as the school's claim, not as an independently verified fact.

ASCM separately runs a partner network for programs that align coursework to its own body of knowledge; that's a curriculum-alignment marker, not a substitute for AACSB's institutional review. Check both directly before enrolling in any accredited supply chain management degree in Florida.

A master's is not the only credential that leads to a supply chain career. Graduate certificates, standalone bachelor's degrees, and an MBA with a supply chain concentration all lead to overlapping job titles, but they are not the same investment in time or depth. This ranking pulls from IPEDS's supply chain management classification, which groups the dedicated MS supply chain degree together with supply-chain-specific MBA tracks like Ana G. Mendez University's, a 100% online MBA specialization built around materials planning, purchasing, and production control rather than a general management core.

That distinction matters when USF's dedicated MS pauses admissions and steers applicants to its own MBA supply chain concentration instead, as noted above: the credential most graduate students end up completing may not be the one they started researching. A reader comparing these programs should confirm, program by program, whether the degree on offer is a standalone MS supply chain track or a concentration inside a broader MBA, since the credit load, cost structure, and curriculum focus can differ even when IPEDS files both under the same code.

Online supply chain programs make up a large share of this Florida ranking. Florida International University runs its MS in Logistics and Supply Chain Management as a hybrid, with online coursework and on-campus sessions every other Saturday, plus a fully online option. University of North Florida offers its program both on campus and fully online. Ana G. Mendez University's MBA supply chain specialization is 100% online at a flat $11,850, the same price whether the student lives in Florida or anywhere else.

These online programs fit a working logistics or operations professional who needs to keep a job while finishing the degree, not someone chasing a campus experience. A reader who wants a fast, in-person cohort instead should look at Florida International University's 10-month hybrid format or, once admissions reopen, University of South Florida's 12-month program, both public and both under $4,750 in-state.

The BLS reports a national median salary of $103,155 a year for logisticians, the closest formal occupational match to a supply chain management degree. That figure is a field-wide benchmark pulled from BLS wage data, not a per-school outcome; none of the 9 Florida programs in this ranking report their own graduate salary data, so read $103,155 as career context, not a promise attached to any single school here.

Florida's port and distribution infrastructure, anchored by Miami, Jacksonville, and Port Everglades, gives graduates of the state's supply chain programs a deep regional employer base without leaving the state. Job titles across this list range from supply chain analyst to procurement manager to logistics and operations director, and an ASCM credential layered on top of any of these programs is typically what differentiates candidates once the degree itself is on the resume. For a full breakdown of pay by percentile and region, the BLS OEWS wage tables are the primary source behind the salary figures in this guide.