University of Florida Information
Motto: Civium in moribus rei publicae salus
(The welfare of the state
depends upon the morals of its
citizens)
The University of Florida was founded in 1853 after a state funded takeover of Kingsbury Academy in Ocala , it was then implemented as a public state institution and relocated following the Buckman act in 1905 It is situated in a campus of around 2000 acres in Gainesville in the south east of the USA. The institution has 16 colleges and over 100 different undergraduate degrees and 200 postgraduate programs.
University of Florida facts
There are around 34,500 undergraduate students and approximately 15000 postgraduate scholars, in addition to the 5200 staff and faculty; this makes the institution the fourth largest in the US. The university of Florida has an endowment of 835 million US dollars. The president is J. Bernard Machen . The schools mascot is Albert E. Gator, and the sports teams are known as the gators . The libraries hold over four million bound volumes, and over seven million microfilms. It is a member of the Association of American Universities.
University of Florida Address
Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
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