University of Florida

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.