Florida State University

Florida State University is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, the state capital. It traces its founding to 1851 as a seminary and took its present name in 1947, when it became a coeducational university. It is one of Florida's two oldest public universities and occupies a main campus west of downtown, with coastal and Panama City sites for marine and regional programs.

Academic work is organized across more than a dozen colleges, including Arts and Sciences, Business, Law, Medicine, Engineering, Music, Motion Picture Arts, Social Work, and Criminology and Criminal Justice. The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, based at Florida State, is the university's central research facility for physics, chemistry, and materials. Graduate students also use the Ringling cultural facilities in Sarasota and clinical sites tied to the College of Medicine.

About 44,000 students enroll, including more than 10,000 graduate and professional students. International students come from more than 100 countries. Faculty number about 2,500. Alumni include actor Burt Reynolds, musician T-Pain, and football player and coach Deion Sanders.

Graduate study includes academic master's and PhD programs, professional degrees in law and medicine, and conservatory-style training in music and film. The calendar is a U.S. semester system. Doctoral funding often comes from MagLab and other research assistantships, fellowships, and teaching posts. Students live in a capital-city campus within walking or bus distance of state government offices, with a compact downtown and a large residential campus west of it.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Florida State University lists 201 graduate programs across 47 subjects: 112 master's programs and 84 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in education, music and psychology. Florida State University holds rank 415 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.