University of Florida

University of Florida

The University of Florida (commonly referred to as Florida or UF) is an American attainable land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant assay university amidst on a 2,000-acre (8.1 km2) campus in North Central Florida. It is a arch associate of the Accessory University System of Florida and traces its complete origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus aback September 1906.

The University of Florida is one of sixty-two adopted associate institutions of the Amalgamation of American Universities (AAU), the amalgamation of basic North American assay universities, and the abandoned AAU associate university amidst in Florida. The University is classified as a Assay University with Very High Assay by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

 Following the apperception of accomplishment standards by the Florida accessory accumulation in 2013, the Florida Board of Governors appointed the University of Florida as one of the two "preeminent universities" a allotment of the twelve universities of the Accessory University System of Florida. In 2015, U.S. News & World Report ranked Florida as the fourteenth best attainable university in the United States.

History

Century Tower, baggy in 1953, to adore the 100th commemoration of the founding of university and as a approval to the alumni who comatose in both World War I and World War II.

The University of Florida traces its origins to 1853, if the East Florida Seminary, the oldest of the University of Florida's four anterior institutions, was founded in Ocala, Florida.

On January 6, 1853, Governor Thomas Brown alive a bill that provided attainable abutment for academy apprenticeship in the accessory of Florida. Gilbert Kingsbury was the ancient getting to crop advantage of the legislation, and acclimatized the East Florida Seminary, which operated until the alpha of the Civil War in 1861. The East Florida Seminary was the ancient state-supported academy of academy acquirements in Florida.

James Henry Roper, an drillmaster from North Carolina and a accessory abettor from Alachua County, had opened a academy in Gainesville, the Gainesville Academy, in 1858. In 1866, Roper offered his acreage and academy to the Accessory of Florida in bargain for the about-face of the East Florida Seminary to Gainesville.

Campus

In complete the University of Florida campus encompasses over 2,000 acreage (8.1 km2). The campus is home to abounding notable structures, such as Century Tower, a 157-foot (48 m) aerial angelus belfry in the centermost of the acclaimed district. Other notable accessories awning the Health Science Center, Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Reitz Student Union, Smathers Library, Phillips Centermost for the Performing Arts, Harn Museum, University Auditorium, O'Connell Center, and The Hub.