University of South Florida

The University of South Florida is a public research university founded in 1956 in Tampa, with additional campuses in St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Manatee. It was created to serve a rapidly growing Gulf Coast and became one of the largest public universities in the United States. It operates as a preeminent research university in Florida's state system, with a health-sciences and applied-research mission.

Divisions include the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Public Health, Nursing, Education, and Behavioral and Community Sciences, the Muma College of Business, and the Morsani College of Medicine. The College of Marine Science is based in St. Petersburg. Graduate students work with Tampa General Hospital and Moffitt Cancer Center. Medicine, public health, engineering, and ocean science are the fields that draw most doctoral students.

USF enrolls about 50,000 students, including about 9,000 graduate and professional students. International students make up about a tenth of enrollment and come from more than 140 countries. Faculty number several thousand. Alumni include U.S. Representative Kathy Castor, former Tampa mayor Bob Buckhorn, and physicians and engineers who entered Florida's hospital and aerospace sectors.

USF awards research doctorates, professional degrees in medicine and other health fields, and academic master's degrees. Supervision is laboratory- and clinic-based, with substantial coursework in the health colleges. The calendar is a U.S. semester year. Graduate assistantships, traineeships, and clinical stipends are the usual support. Tampa is a large coastal metro, and much graduate life sits between the Tampa campus and nearby hospitals.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of South Florida lists 8 graduate programs across 5 subjects: 1 master's program and 7 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in earth & environmental sciences, psychology and finance & financial economics.