University of Florida

The University of Florida commonly referred to as Florida o is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on n North Central Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System  traces its historical origins to has operated continuously on its present campus since September 1906.

The University of Florida is one of sixty-two elected member institutions of the Association of American Universities he association of preeminent North American research universities, and the only  member university located in Florida.The University is classified as a Research University with Very High Research by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.Following the creation of performance standards by the Florida state legislature in 2013, the Florida Board of

 Governors designated the University of Florida as one of the two "preeminent universities" among the twelve universities of the State University System U.S. News & World Report  as the fourteenth best public university in the United States.The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. It is the third largest Florida university by student is the eighth largest  university in the United States with 49,913 students enrolled for the fall 2012 semester.

 The University of Florida is home to sixteen academic colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. It offers multiple graduate professional administration, engineering, law, dentistry, medicine, and veterinary e contiguous campus, and administers 123 master's degree programs and seventy-six doctoral degree programs in eighty-seven schools and departments.The University of Florida's intercollegiate sports teams, commonly known by their "Florida Gators" nickname, compete in National Collegiate  I and the Southeastern Conference their 108-year history, the university's varsity sports teams have won thirty-five national team championships, thirty of which are NCAA titles, and Gator athletes have won 275 individual national championshipsinstitutions, was founded in  Florida.

On January 6, 1853, Governor Thomas Brown signed a bill that provided public support for higher education in the state of Florida Gilbert was the first person to take advantage of the legislation, and established the East Florida Seminary,  operated until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. The East Florida Seminary was the first state-supported institution of higher learning in Florida.

James Henry Roper, an educator from North Carolina and a state senator from County, had opened a  1858 land and school to the State of Florida in exchange for the relocation of the East Florida Seminary to The second major precursor to t Agricultural Colleg

hed at Lake City by Jordan Prob in 1884. Agricultural College became the state's first land-grant college under the 1903, the Florida Legislature, desiring to expand the school's outlook and curriculum beyond its agricultural and engineering origins, changed the name of Florida Agricultural College to the "University of Florida," a name that the school would hold for only two years