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The University of South Florida is the ninth largest university in the United States in terms of enrollment, and the
third largest in the state of Florida.
South Florida
is a public research university that is a part of the State University System of
Florida. The University of South Florida was founded in 1956 as the first
public university established specifically to address the needs of
Florida’s rapidly emerging urban regions.
USF is the first campus in the nation to strike an accord with the Department ofVeterans Affairs to have specialized academic guidance services for veterans
taking advantage of the Post-9/11 Veterans Education Bill.
The main campus is located
in north Tampa, and there is also a separately
accredited autonomous campus in St.
Petersburg, Florida.
The USF College of Marine Science is also in St. Petersburg.
A pair of branch campuses is maintained in Lakeland and
Sarasota
as well. Federal funding for
academic research increased 213% from 2000 to 2007, making South Florida the
fastest growing research university in the U.S.
The Princeton Review has ranked the university
17th in nation for diversity among students.
USF offers 228 degree programs at the undergraduate, graduate, specialist and
doctoral levels, including a doctor of medicine, through its 11 colleges.
The university also offers several interdisciplinary programs, including
liberal arts degrees with varying concentrations that encourage work in multiple
departments by students. Many
liberal arts departments at South Florida are known to have a balance of different
emphasis in their fields of inquiry which provide a variety of track options for
students. Recent successes have led
to “dual designations for the USF System by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a Very High Research and a Community Engaged
university.”
Undergraduate majors at USF can be found here:
http://www.registrar.usf.edu/admissions/majors/
Graduate programs can be found here:
http://www.grad.usf.edu/programs/programs.asp
South Florida also runs the
Contemporary Art Museum on its
campus, featuring regular exhibitions of contemporary art, including a
show of faculty work every three years and an annual juried student
show. USF also operates
Graphicstudio, an art studio and print shop which has hosted
artists like
Roy Lichtenstein,
Robert Rauschenberg,
James Rosenquist, and Allan McCollum. Regular exhibitions of student
work are featured in the William and Nancy
Oliver
Gallery and the student-run Centre
Gallery in the
Marshall
Center.
The University
of South Florida has created USF Health, which includes a
College of Nursing,
a College of
Public Health, and a College
of Medicine, which also
includes the School
of Physical Therapy.
USF Health’s presence has generated a
network of highly specialized teaching hospitals, including the James
Haley Veterans' Hospital, Moffitt Cancer Center, Shiners' Hospital, and
specialty units at All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg and Tampa
General Hospital.
The USF College of Public Health is the
only public health college in the state accredited by the Council on
Education for Public Health.
South Florida’s College of Marine Science “strives to
define and realize a bright future with the emerging issues that affect
the economic conditions of the Florida West Coast Shelf and we seek to
address a myriad of relevant societal issues such as over-fishing,
coastal erosion, red tides, ocean noise, dying coral reefs, hurricane
predictions, sea level rise, floods, ocean acidification, and drought to
build better, more environmentally-sustainable and safe communities.”
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