Florida University

Florida University is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university. Florida University located in Gainesville, Florida, United states and it was established in 1853.The University of Florida Campus Historic District comprises 19 buildings. In Fall 2008, Florida University students come from more than 130 countries, and all 50 states. This university is one of the largest research universities in the nation.

It offers 16 colleges they are ;

College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

1.College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
2. College of Education
3..Levin College of Law
4.College of Engineering
5.College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
6.College of Journalism and Communications
7.College of Pharmacy
8.College of Design Construction and Planning
9.Warrington College of Business
10.College of Health and Human Performance
11.College of Medicine
12.College of Nursing
13.College of Public Health and Health Professions
14.College of Dentistry
15.College of Fine Arts
16.College of Veterinary Medicine


The University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries is one of the largest university library systems in the United States. It has total ten libraries, and over 5.3 million volumes of books and journals and 7 million microfilms. Collections cover virtually all disciplines and include a wide array of formats, from books and journals to manuscripts, maps, and recorded music. Increasingly collections are digital and are accessible on the Internet via the library web page or the library catalog.

George A Smathers Libraries

The University of Florida provides residence halls and divided into the eastern and western sides of campus. Facilities vary in the cost of rent and privacy. Housing plans also offer students access to dining facilities. The university also provides housing to a number of graduate students and their families.The University is currently building a new residence hall on campus that will be more accessible to students with disabilities.

Broward Hall

Many recreational activities available for students include indoor and outdoor sports. The campus also contains open spaces, small ponds, picnic areas, shady nooks. Florida University has more than eight hundred organizations and clubs for students to join.
Florida University is served by nine bus routes of the Gainesville Regional Transit System (RTS), which had over ten million riders in 2011. Students, faculty, and staff with university-issued ID cards are able to use the system at no extra cost.

Florida University also has student media like :

The Independent Florida Alligator

1. The Independent Florida Alligator is the largest student-run newspaper in the United States, and operates without oversight from the university administration.
2. WRUF (850 AM) features a mixture of local and syndicated talk programs, award-winning student-produced newscasts and sports talk shows, plus religious programming on Sunday mornings.
3. WRUF-FM (103.7 FM) broadcasts Country music and attracts an audience from the Gainesville and Ocala areas.
4. WRUF-LD is a low-power television station that carries weather, news, and sports programming.
5. WUFT is a PBS member station with a variety of programming that includes a daily student-produced newscast.
6. WUFT-FM (89.1 FM) is an NPR member radio station which airs news and public affairs programming, including student-produced long-form news reporting. WUFT-FM's programming also airs on WJUF-FM (90.1).

This University has two famous museums :
1. The Florida Museum of Natural History, established in 1891, is one of the oldest natural history museums in the country. This facility is dedicated to understanding, preserving and interpreting biological diversity and cultural heritage.

2. The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, established in 1990, is also located at the University of Florida on the southwest part of campus. This facility is one of the largest university art museums in the South, the Harn has more than 7,000 works in its permanent collection and an array of temporary exhibitions. The museum's permanent collections are focused on Asian, African, modern and contemporary art, as well as photography.



The University of Florida's intercollegiate sports teams, called as the "Florida Gators," compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I and the Southeastern Conference (SEC).[176] The Gators compete in nine men's sports and twelve women's sports, including:
Florida Gators baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, cross country (men's and women's), football, men's golf, women's golf, women's gymnastics,women's lacrosse, women's soccer, softball, swimming and diving (men's and women's), men's tennis, women's tennis, track and field (men's and women's; indoor and outdoor),volleyball.

Florida Gators logo

I think,from those facts, It can prove why this university become one of the most popular university in the world.

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