UF Facts and Figures

Academic Excellence

  • UF is one of 17 public, land-grant institutions in the 63-member Association of American Universities (AAU).
  • UF's 2008 incoming class had an average 4.18 GPA and 1293 SAT score.
  • UF admitted 1,049 international baccalaureate students for the 2004-05 academic year, more than any other university in the world.
  • UF has the third-largest student enrollment of all U.S. universities with more than 51,413 students (including nearly 10,000 graduate students) from all 50 states and 100 foreign countries.
  • UF, which offers more than 100 undergraduate majors, has 16 colleges and more than 100 research, service and education centers, bureaus and institutes.
  • Nearly 2,000 freshmen and sophomores are in the honors program, which offers 90-100 courses per semester.
  • UF coordinates nearly 200 graduate programs and offers professional degree programs in dentistry, law, medicine, pharmacy, architecture, engineering and veterinary medicine.
  • UF faculty attracted more than $ 518.8 million in sponsored research in 2005-2006.
  • In the last 10 years, UF's 41 Academic All-Americans ranks fifth in the nation.
  • Florida shared the league-high number of SEC Academic Honor Roll recipients (187) and leads all league schools with 2,332 Academic Honor Roll recipients since 1980

Athletic Excellence

  • The Gator football team’s BSC/Associated Press Championship highlighted Florida's 2008-09 national finishes. A total of 12 Florida teams placed among the nation’s top 10, matching the school-record for top-10 finishes. Florida’s other 2008-09 top-10 teams in NCAA competition included: softball (No. 2), men’s indoor track & field (No. 2), men’s outdoor track & field (No. T-2), gymnastics (No. 4), men’s swimming & diving (No. 5), women’s swimming & diving (No. 7), women’s outdoor track & field (No. 9), baseball (No. T-9), soccer (No. T-9), women’s tennis (No. T-9) and volleyball (No. T-9).
  • UF is the only university to appear in national all-sports top-10 rankings for each of the past 26 years, and is one of only four schools in the 2008-09 National All-Sports top 10 with an athlete graduation success rate above 85 percent. 
  • For an unprecedented ninth time, the University of Florida completed a sweep of all three New York Times Regional Newspaper Group Southeastern Conference All-Sports titles. It was the 19th overall title for UF, 16th women’s and 13th men’s. Prior to 1992, no school in SEC history had ever won both the men's and women's all-sports titles in the same academic year. Florida became the first to win all three in 1992 and has repeated the feat in 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2009.
  • In 2008-09, 64 UF student-athletes earned 161 All-America honors.

A Dominant Market

  • 18 million people live in Florida (4th in U.S.) in approximately 7 million households.
  • By 2014, it is projected that 20.7 million people will reside in Florida in 8.2 million households.
  • Five of the nation’s top 50 television markets are located in Florida.
  • Over 340,000 UF alumni live in 50 states and 130 countries.