The University of Florida is a major public land-grant research university—the state’s oldest and most comprehensive. Located in rural northern Florida, the city of Gainesville revolves around the campus and its student population.
In the 1860s the state-funded East Florida Seminary in Ocala was consolidated with the state’s land-grant Florida Agricultural College in Lake City. In 1905 the college became a university and was moved to Gainesville where the first classes... [Purchase this review to continue reading]