University of Florida

The University of Florida is the state's flagship public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university, in Gainesville, Florida. It traces its origins to 1853 and was designated the University of Florida in 1905, with instruction moving to Gainesville in 1906. It is a member of the Association of American Universities and occupies a campus of about 2,000 acres in a small north-central Florida city.

Sixteen colleges include the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, the Warrington College of Business, the Levin College of Law, the College of Medicine, the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences through the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, and colleges of journalism, education, pharmacy, dentistry, and veterinary medicine. Graduate students use teaching hospitals, IFAS research stations, and engineering and life-science laboratories across the Gainesville campus.

Enrollment is about 55,000 to 60,000 students, of whom more than 16,000 are graduate and professional students. International students come from more than 130 countries. The faculty numbers several thousand. Alumni include U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, actor Faye Dunaway, and novelist Michael Connelly.

Graduate degrees range from academic master's and PhD programs to professional degrees in law, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine. Research degrees mix coursework with dissertation supervision on a semester calendar. Doctoral students are commonly funded by assistantships, fellowships, and federal grants. Campus life is concentrated in Gainesville, a college town where housing, labs, and the academic health center sit on one large site.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Florida lists 205 graduate programs across 49 subjects: 114 master's programs and 87 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in public health, education and health & medical sciences. University of Florida holds rank 96 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.