General Information
CDS - A1. Address Information
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
Phone: (352) 392-3261
http://www.ufl.edu/Admissions Office:
Phone: (352) 392-1365
201 Criser Hall
Box 114000, Univ. of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-4000
http://www.admissions.ufl.edu
Email Addresses:
Freshman Admission:
ourwebrequests@registrar.ufl.eduTransfer Admission:
ourwebrequests@registrar.ufl.eduGraduate Admission:
ourwebrequests@registrar.ufl.eduProfessional Admission (Med., Dental, Vet. Med., Law, Pharmacy):
ourwebrequests@registrar.ufl.eduPostbaccaulareate Admission:
ourwebrequests@registrar.ufl.eduReadmission (previous UF students):
ourwebrequests@registrar.ufl.eduResidency Information:
ourwebrequests@registrar.ufl.eduInternational Admission:
ourwebrequests@registrar.ufl.eduUniversity Catalogs:
http://www.registrar.ufl.edu/academicinfohub.htmlWorld Wide Web application:
http//www.admissions.ufl.edu/start.htmlOffice for Student Financial Affairs
P.O. Box 114025, 103 Criser Hall
Gainesville, FL 32611-4025
http://www.sfa.ufl.edu/Year Founded:
1853
CDS - A2. Source of institutional control:
Public
CDS - A3. Classify your undergraduate institution:
Co-educational
CDS - A4. Academic year calendar:
Semester
CDS - A5. Degrees offered by your institution:
Bachelor's (B.A. or B.S.)
Master's
Specialist (Ed.S.)
Engineer
Doctoral (Ph.D., Ed.D., Au.D., D.P.M.)
First-professional (DMD, MD, DPH, DVM, JD, DNP)
Academic Structure
UF is one of the nation's top three universities in the number of majors offered on a single campus. It has 16 colleges and schools and over 100 interdisciplinary research centers, bureaus, and institutes. Almost 100 undergraduate degree programs are offered. The Graduate School coordinates more than 200 graduate programs. Professional degree programs include Dentistry, Medicine, Pharmacy, Veterinary Medicine, and Law.
Faculty
Faculty Honors:
No. of Nobel Laureates
1
No. of Pulitzer Prize winners
2
No. members of National Academy of Sciences and/or Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, or their international counterparts
more than two dozen
No. Eminent Scholar Chairs
62
No. Fulbright Awards
8
Library Holdings
The George A. Smathers Libraries, forming the largest information resource system in the state of Florida, reflect the riches found in the university's academic programs. The library system is comprised of two main libraries and thirteen branch libraries and reading rooms, all with fully computerized facilities. Library collections are accessed through the LUIS online system, which holds more than one million bibliographic records. The Libraries have available 61 computerized retrieval systems. See http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/.
Computer Facilities
Location of personal computers or terminals for general student use:
Microcomputer labs, computer center, classrooms, libraries, student center, dormitories, modem dialup service, and a special office offering computer access for the disabled.
Computer requirements for students:
Access to and on-going use of a computer will be required for all students to complete their degree programs successfully. Effective Summer B 1998, the university expects each student entering the junior year, as well as each student new to the university, to acquire computer hardware and software appropriate to his/her degree program. Competency in basic use of a computer is a requirement for graduation. See http://www.circa.ufl.edu/computers/.
Special Facilities on Campus
The northeast corner of the campus is listed as an Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. Notable UF facilities include:
- Florida Museum of Natural History, among the nation's top 10 natural history museums
- The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, one of the largest museums in the Southeast
- The Center for Performing Arts, which attracts world-class symphony orchestras, Broadway plays, opera,
and large-scale ballet productions to Gainesville- The world's largest citrus research center
- One of the nation's few self-contained intensive care hyperbaric chambers for treatment of near-drowning victims
- A microkelvin laboratory capable of producing the coldest temperature in the universe
- The second largest academic computing center in the South
- A world-class bell carillon
- 99-rank Anderson Memorial pipe organ
- Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station
- A federally-funded world-class brain institute
- One public television, one public radio, and two commercial radio stations.
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