FAST
FORWARD
UNIVERSITY
OF
FLORIDA

A great public university doesn't just serve its students. It serves the state, the country, and the future.

The University of Florida was founded in 1853 with a simple premise: that knowledge should be widely shared, not closely held.

Today it is one of the top five public universities in America, with nearly 60,000 students and research that reaches every continent.

From artificial intelligence to agricultural science, its work solves problems that matter to real people in real places.

Gainesville is where ambition meets access. World-class faculty and first-generation students sit in the same rooms.

But scale alone means nothing without direction. What matters is where the energy goes and who it reaches.

The university's next chapter will be defined not by rankings but by impact, by how many lives its work actually changes.

The ones who believe that are the ones who will fast forward University of Florida into what it's meant to become.