University of Florida

The University of Florida (commonly referred to as Florida or UF) is an American accessible land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant analysis university amid on a 2,000-acre (8.1 km2) campus in North Central Florida. It is a chief affiliate of the Accompaniment University System of Florida and traces its actual origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus back September 1906.
The University of Florida is one of sixty-two adopted affiliate institutions of the Affiliation of American Universities (AAU), the affiliation of capital North American analysis universities, and the alone AAU affiliate university amid in Florida. The University is classified as a Analysis University with Very High Analysis by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Following the conception of achievement standards by the Florida accompaniment assembly in 2013, the Florida Board of Governors appointed the University of Florida as one of the two "preeminent universities" a part of the twelve universities of the Accompaniment University System of Florida. In 2015, U.S. News & World Report ranked Florida as the fourteenth best accessible university in the United States.

History

Century Tower, amorphous in 1953, to admire the 100th ceremony of the founding of university and as a accolade to the alumni who asleep in both World War I and World War II.
The University of Florida traces its origins to 1853, if the East Florida Seminary, the oldest of the University of Florida's four antecedent institutions, was founded in Ocala, Florida.
On January 6, 1853, Governor Thomas Brown active a bill that provided accessible abutment for college apprenticeship in the accompaniment of Florida. Gilbert Kingsbury was the aboriginal being to yield advantage of the legislation, and accustomed the East Florida Seminary, which operated until the beginning of the Civil War in 1861. The East Florida Seminary was the aboriginal state-supported academy of college acquirements in Florida.
James Henry Roper, an drillmaster from North Carolina and a accompaniment agent from Alachua County, had opened a academy in Gainesville, the Gainesville Academy, in 1858. In 1866, Roper offered his acreage and academy to the Accompaniment of Florida in barter for the alteration of the East Florida Seminary to Gainesville.

Campus

In absolute the University of Florida campus encompasses over 2,000 acreage (8.1 km2). The campus is home to abounding notable structures, such as Century Tower, a 157-foot (48 m) alpine angelus belfry in the centermost of the celebrated district. Other notable accessories cover the Health Science Center, Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Reitz Student Union, Smathers Library, Phillips Centermost for the Performing Arts, Harn Museum, University Auditorium, O'Connell Center, and The Hub.