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With over 53,000 students enrolled in fall of 2009, the University of Central Florida
has the third highest enrollment of all public universities in the
United States
and the most enrolled of all Florida
universities. The university is
located in Orlando, Florida and is one of the 11 public
universities that make up the State University System of Florida.
Central Florida was founded in 1963 as the Florida Technological
University (‘Florida Tech’), which
served as a training school for the
Kennedy
Space Center.
The university would later develop into a more traditional university
with multiple disciplines, and it became the University of Central Florida in 1978.
In 2009, U.S. News & World Report
named Central Florida
the fifth best ‘up-and-coming’ university.
The university’s campus design is a blueprint for other universities
around the country, with its concentric-circled design that emphasizes
pedestrian use in its center with automobile-traffic flowing on its outer-most
circle.
Central Florida is still connected to the space program by way of being
a space-grant university, which means it is one of 52 universities that
are a part of the
National
Space
Grant College
and Fellowship Program that was began in 1988 and is managed by N.A.S.A.
(Florida State University
is also a space-grant university).
Noted research areas for Central Florida
include optics, modeling and simulation, digital media,
engineering and computer science, business administration, education,
and hospitality management.
The University of Central
Florida maintains 11 satellite campuses and
offers 225 different degrees in 12 colleges.
Other than the three satellite
campuses also located in Orlando with the main campus, there are
campuses in
Cocoa,
Clermont,
Daytona Beach,
Heathrow,
Kissimmee,
Leesburg,
Ocala,
Palm Bay
and
Sanford.
The university recently became more selective for incoming
freshmen due to its rapidly expanding size, with 42% of prospective
students being admitted in the fall of 2009, down from 61% in 2005.
The University
of Central Florida’s location in
Orlando, Florida
helps to define some of its emphasis and usefulness for students.
The College
of Business Administration at
Central Florida is the only accredited business school for
undergraduates and graduates in the
Orlando
metropolitan area. The
College of Education
at the university produces the most teachers statewide. UCF’s
College of Engineering
and Computer Science specializes in providing an education that
translates for careers at such Orlando-area institutions as NASA,
Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Siemens and Walt Disney World. Likewise,
the Rosen College of Hospitality Management of Central Florida benefits from being located in the
belly of the tourism industry.
The internationally revered
College of Optics
and Photonics at UCF consists of three major research institutions which
include the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers
(CREOL), the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence and the
newly-founded Townes Laser Institute.
The links to
Central Florida’s various colleges can be found here:
http://www.ucf.edu/academics/
Graduate programs at the
University of Central
Florida can be
found here:
http://www.graduatecatalog.ucf.edu/programs/
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