The University of Florida (regularly alluded to as Florida
or UF) is an American open area stipend, ocean give, and space-gift research
college found on a 2,000-section of land (8.1 km2) grounds in North Central
Florida. Howard and Matthew Greene perceived Florida as a Public Ivy in 2001,
an openly supported college considered as giving a nature of instruction
tantamount to those of the Ivies. In 2014, U.S. News & World Report
positioned Florida as the fourteenth best state funded college in the United
States.[9] It is a senior individual from the State University System of
Florida and follows its recorded beginnings to 1853, and has worked
consistently on its available Gainesville grounds since September 1906.
The University of Florida is a chosen individual from the
Association of American Universities (AAU), the relationship of overwhelming
North American research universities. The University is named a Research
University with Very High Research by the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching. The college is licensed by the Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools (SACS). Florida Governor Rick Scott and the state
Legislature assigned the University of Florida as one of two
"overwhelming" state colleges in the spring of 2013. It is the third
biggest Florida college by understudy population, and is the eighth biggest
single-grounds college in the United States with 49,913 understudies selected
for the fall 2012 semester. The University of Florida is home to sixteen
scholarly schools and more than 150 exploration focuses and foundations. It
offers various graduate proficient projects including business organization,
building, law, dentistry, solution, and veterinary drug on one coterminous
grounds, and directs 123 graduate degree projects and seventy-six doctoral
degree programs in eighty-seven schools and offices.
The University of Florida's intercollegiate games groups,
normally known by their "Florida Gators" epithet, contend in National
Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I and the Southeastern
Conference (SEC). In their 108-year history, the college's varsity games groups
have won thirty-three national group titles, twenty-eight of which are NCAA
titles, and Gator competitors have won 267 individual national championships.
The University of Florida follows its birthplaces to 1853,
when the East Florida Seminary, the most established of the University of
Florida's four forerunner foundations, was established in Ocala, Florida.
On January 6, 1853, Governor Thomas Brown marked a charge
that gave open backing to advanced education in the condition of Florida.
Gilbert Kingsbury was the first individual to exploit the enactment, and made
the East Florida Seminary, which worked until the flare-up of the Civil War in
1861.
The second significant forerunner to the University of
Florida was the Florida Agricultural College, created at Lake City by Jordan
Probst in 1884. Florida Agricultural College turned into the state's first
land-stipend school under the Morrill Act. In 1903, the Florida Legislature,
fancying to grow the school's viewpoint and educational module past its rural
and designing inceptions, changed the name of Florida Agricultural College to
the "College of Florida," a name that the school would hold for just
two years.
In 1985, the University of Florida was welcome to turn into
an individual from the Association of American Universities (AAU), an
association made out of sixty-two scholastically noticeable open and private
examination colleges in the United States and Canada. Florida is one of the
seventeen open, area award colleges that have a place with the AAU. In 2009,
President Bernie Machen and the University of Florida Board of Trustees
reported a real arrangement move for the college. The Board of Trustees upheld
the decrease in the quantity of students and the movement of budgetary and
other scholastic assets to graduate instruction and research in the future.