I can’t speak about Eckerd much, I’ve only seen the outside of the campus. What little I know of it has already been said in this thread. However, each of the other three have pretty compelling hooks:
University of Miami - They recently hired a new president, one that seems very promising in improving a lot of the areas that the schools lacks in. The quality of Miami’s campus buildings is very, very, very poor, except for the new student center–and that is quite marginal quality. Many of the buildings reek of typical cheap excess that was common in this nation in the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. I understand that many people visiting the campus from better established areas of the country with longer histories are underwhelmed by the campus when comparing it to the bastions of higher education in, say, the northeast. However, I truly believe this new president is going to change that. This school has a tremendous amount of upward mobility, a sizeable endowment, decent programs in nearly every field, and an absolutely killer location. Finding decent accommodations in the area is very difficult, however.
University of Tampa - Tampa’s president has been doing a wonderful job. He brought the school back from the precipice of construction, and most of the rather fine buildings on the campus were built during his tenure, not to mention the restoration of the endowment. The success of any school I’d say is tied to the success of the area, and, as I illustrated above, Miami as a city is doing quite well (it is Manhattanizing), but Tampa as a city has a lot of projects in the works. Jeff Vinik, who some in Boston may know, has embarked on a project to totally redevelop almost a third of the downtown area into a nice live-work-play environment. There’s been tremendous turnover in the ownership of some of the prominent buildings in downtown, some selling for premiums much higher than the previous owners ever dreamed. Tampa’s port and local industries pertaining to the port are going to see a huge benefit with the imminent opening of Cuba, as well. There are many office buildings and condominiums/apartment buildings in the process of construction or have been approved and are preparing for construction. Accommodations are superior in this area compared to Miami, you’ll be able to find a historic and well-put-together apartment close to campus in a very safe area for a reasonable sum. There’s no equal in Miami, where the carpetbaggers have destroyed lots of the old neat buildings in Coral Gables to replace them with utter nonsense. The same pattern has been observed in downtown Miami, unfortunately, though I must say that the city of Miami is very much rebuilding itself.
Rollins College - This is my personal opinion and it totally depends on the type of person your daughter is, but I find the Orlando area to be absolutely miserable. There’s a lot of ignorant, regressive-thinking locals who want to sprawl out as far as they can and seem to want to prevent the development of a cohesive and centralized city at all costs. I’m reminded of Atlanta somewhat, in that regard. Disney World, regardless what happy childhood memories many here would attribute to it, is a big polluter (in terms of nasty runoff) and promoter of the service-economy that Florida desperately wants to curtail. If you’re considering investing in real estate in Florida, Orlando is a very poor choice, considering nothing really anchors the area like in Miami or Tampa (Biscayne Bay and Tampa Bay, respectively). The dorms at Rollins are absolutely ancient, and not in a quaint way. If you visit them in reality, you’ll see that it’s like living in a crummy hotel. Winter Park is very nice, though. It’s much like Coral Gables in Miami or Hyde Park in Tampa, the adjacent neighborhoods to the two other schools. The Rollins campus is a veritable Eden. I would say that their campus solidly beats Miami’s and Tampa’s, despite Tampa having a really cool trademark building (the former Tampa Bay Hotel, AKA Plant Hall). However, considering the nastiness of everything else in Orlando (which is unfortunate, considering the natural beauty of the area), your daughter would basically be in an affluent enclave for the entirety of her time in college, whereas in Tampa and Miami she would be able to broaden her horizons some more and learn more in regards to urban planning, what she really enjoys in an area, the international perspective of both of the cities (more so in Miami), and the other trappings that being in a decently sized city brings.
Regardless of my opinions on the matter, all of the schools mentioned are very safe, with Miami and Tampa being investments that you’ll very likely see a return on, both in the rankings climb that they’re each poised to make and with the experiences in store for her wherever she goes.