It was in the year 1853 that the Eastern Florida Seminary got the full control of the Kingsbury Academy located in Ocala. The seminary later moved to during the 1860s and much later it was consolidated with the Florida’s land-granted Agricultural College. In the year 1905, the aforementioned college finally became a university through legislative action and was re-located to Gainesville. The first classes first had a total of 102 students and UF officially was opened for women in the year 1947. The university now has 51,000 students and more and now happens to be one of the five largest universities of the whole country.

Florida has a huge 2,000-acre campus and there are over 900 buildings on the campus site. The northeastern corner of the campus is enlisted as Historic District on the prestigious National Register of Historic Places. The residence halls of the university can accommodate a total of 7,000 students and there are a total of five family housing villages that can hold much more than 2,200 married as well as graduate students.

Florida has a total of 16 colleges and there are over 100 research as well as education centers as well as bureaus and study institutes. USF offers more than 100 UG majors.

The University has a good trend of holding world-class symphony orchestras not to mention Broadway plays, large-scale ballet performances and operas. UF also boasts of many artistic venues and also has a collection of over 6,000 original works and also has a couple of television stations not to mention a total of four radio stations. The university also has a good athletic record and the athletic teams from here have ranked among the 10 best athletic programs of USA in the last two decades. The university also has several many recreation centers, outdoor courts and fields.
USF offers both Graduate as well as Undergraduate programs and all the applications are coordinated by the Office of Admissions. You have the facility of applying to these courses online as well.