The 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 situated on a 2,000-section of land (8.1 km2) grounds in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior individual from the State University System of Florida and follows its recorded starting points to 1853, and has worked ceaselessly on its present Gainesville grounds since September 1906. The University of Florida is one of sixty-two chose part foundations of the Association of American Universities (AAU), the relationship of overwhelming North American examination colleges, and the main AAU part college situated in Florida. The University is delegated a Research University with Very High Research by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Taking after the formation of execution benchmarks by the Florida state lawmaking body in 2013, the Florida Board of Governors assigned the University of Florida as one of the two "overwhelming colleges" among the twelve colleges of the State University System of Florida. In 2015, U.S. News and World Report positioned Florida as the fourteenth best state funded college in the United States.

The college is licensed by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). It is the third biggest Florida college by student populace, and is the eighth biggest single-grounds college in the United States with 49,913 students enlisted for the fall 2012 semester. The University of Florida is home to sixteen scholarly schools and more than 150 examination focuses and founds. It offers numerous graduate proficient projects—including business organization, building, law, dentistry, medication, and veterinary pharmaceutical—on one adjacent grounds, and regulates 123 graduate degree projects and seventy-six doctoral degree programs in eighty-seven schools and offices. The University of Florida's intercollegiate games groups, regularly 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 sports groups have won thirty-five national group titles, thirty of which are NCAA titles, and Gator competitors have won 275 individual national titles.

The University of Florida follows its roots to 1853, when the East Florida Seminary, the most established of the University of Florida's four forerunner organizations, was established in Ocala, Florida. On January 6, 1853, Governor Thomas Brown marked a bill that gave open backing to advanced education in the condition of Florida. Gilbert Kingsbury was the principal individual to exploit the enactment, and built up the East Florida Seminary, which worked until the episode of the Civil War in 1861. The East Florida Seminary was the main state-bolstered foundation of higher learning in Florida. James Henry Roper, an instructor from North Carolina and a state congressperson from Alachua County, had opened a school in Gainesville, the Gainesville Academy, in 1858. In 1866, Roper offered his property and school to the State of Florida in return for the migration of the East Florida Seminary to Gainesville.

The second real antecedent to the University of Florida was the Florida Agricultural College, set up 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, seeking to grow the school's viewpoint and educational modules past its farming and designing starting points, changed the name of Florida Agricultural College to the "College of Florida," a name that the school would hold for just two years.

The University of Florida has a distinctions program; After picking up acknowledgment to the college, students must apply independently to the Honors Program and show critical scholarly accomplishment to be acknowledged. There are more than 100 courses offered solely to students in this system. In 2011, more than 1900 students connected for 700 accessible seats. The Honors Program additionally offers lodging for first year recruit in the Honors Residential College at Hume Hall. The project likewise offers extraordinary grants, temporary jobs, research, and concentrate abroad opportunities. The Lombardi Scholars Program, made in 2002 and named to pay tribute to the college's ninth president John V. Lombardi, is a legitimacy grant for Florida students. The grant offers $2,700 a semester for an aggregate of eight to ten semesters. The J. Wayne Reitz Scholars Program, made in 1997 and named to pay tribute to the college's fifth president J. Wayne Reitz, is an initiative and legitimacy based grant for Florida students. The grant offers a yearly $2,500 stipend that might be restored for up to three years.

In 2005, the University of Florida turned into a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary for natural and untamed life administration, asset protection, ecological training, waste administration, and effort. Through long haul natural activities, the University of Florida made an Office of Sustainability in 2006. Their main goal is to keep on improving ecological maintainability in a wide range of zones on grounds. They have expressed that their future objectives are to deliver zero waste by 2015, and to accomplish Carbon Neutrality by 2025. As of late the college delegated another maintainability chief. Florida got a "B+" grade on the 2009 College Sustainability Report Card for its natural and manageability activities. In 2009 "B+" was the second most noteworthy evaluation honored by the Sustainable Endowments Institute.

Altogether the University of Florida grounds envelops more than 2,000 sections of land (8.1 km2). The grounds is home to numerous remarkable structures, for example, Century Tower, a 157-foot (48 m) tall bells tower in the focal point of the architecturally significant area. Other prominent offices incorporate the Health Science Center, Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Reitz Student Union, Smathers Library, Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Harn Museum, University Auditorium, O'Connell Center, and The Hub.