Florida State University

D'Alemberte Rotunda

The Florida State University is a public university of the Florida State University System located in the city of Tallahassee, Florida, in the United States. The university was established in 1851 in Tallahassee, the capital of the state of Florida. It ranks eighth among the largest university budgets, with a budget close to $1.7 billion dollars a year.

The university is made up of 22 schools and colleges offering more than 360 programs of study. FSU is especially recognized for its programs in Business, Medicine, Engineering, Creative Writing, Evolutionary Biology, Dance, Film, Music, Hospitality, Computer Science, Meteorology, and Political Science.

Academic

Florida State University owns more than 1,600 acres and owns the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee. The university continues to build on its capacity as a leader in the search for a science degree in Florida. Other milestones at the University include the first ETA10-G/8 supercomputer, capable of 10.8 GFLOPS in 1989, notable for that time in exceeding the speed of the existing Cray-2/8, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by a substantial leap forward and the development of the anti-cancer drug Taxol.

Demographics

FSU's student body was 41,867 in the fall of 2016, hailing from more than 130 countries, and all 50 states in the US. The ratio of women to men is 55:45, and 22 percent percent are graduate students and professionals. Professional degree programs include Law, Medicine, Business Administration, Social Work, and Nursing. Minority populations make up 28.8 percent of the student body, with 8.3 percent African American, 17.7 percent Hispanic, 0.2 percent American Indian, and 2.6 percent Asian American or Pacific Islander.

In 2016, 5.7% of the student body at FSU was international. Of these, the most popular countries of origin were: China (20%), Panama (10.5%), India (6%), Korea (5.4%), Colombia (5.1%), and Brazil (3.7%). In total, 2,372 international students enrolled at Florida State University.

Floridians make up 90% of the student population. Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Hillsborough, and León are the counties in Florida with the highest number of students in the state. Students from Georgia, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Maryland are the most numerous from outside the state of Florida.

Campus

FSU's main campus is located at coordinates 30°26′27″N 84°17′29″W / 30.44077, -84.29141 in Tallahassee, near the state capitol. It is bounded by Tennessee Street (U.S. Highway 90) to the north, Gaines Street to the south, Stadium Drive to the west, and Macomb Street to the east.

In addition to the main campus, FSU has another campus on Orange Drive, where the School of Engineering is located, and another in Sarasota, where it offers graduate programs in acting, and which includes the Florida State University Center for the Performing Arts.

FSU also has an office in Panama and three study centers in Florence, Valencia and London.

Educational centers

Florida State University is made up of 22 colleges and schools:

• Faculty of Arts and Sciences (1901)
• Faculty of Human Sciences (1901)
• Faculty of Education (1901)
• Faculty of Music (1901)
• Faculty of Social Work (1928)
• Dance School (1930)
• Faculty of Fine Arts (1943)
• Faculty of Communication and Information (1947)
• Information School (1947)
• Askew School of Public Administration and Policy (1947)
• Dedman Hospitality School (1947)
• Faculty of Business (1950)
• Faculty of Nursing (1950)
• Faculty of Law (1966)
• Faculty of Social Sciences and Public Policies (1973)
• School of Theatre (1973)
• Faculty of Criminology and Criminal Justice (1974)
• Faculty of Engineering (1983)
• Faculty of Cinema Arts (1989)
• Faculty of Medicine (2000)
• School of Communication (2009)
• Escuela de Ciencias de la Comunicación y Trastornos (2009)

Student Life

The university has 58 fraternities and sororities, of which thirty-nine have residence halls of their own.

The annual catalog is titled "Vires", the university television network "WFSU", the radio station "WFSU-FM", and the "FSView" magazine.

Transportation

Eight stations of the "Seminole Express Bus Service" of the maroon and gold lines. It is free to ride the bus for faculty, staff, students, and visitors.

Florida State University is served by the Tallahassee International Airport. The airport has daily flights to Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa, Atlanta, Charlotte, and Dallas-Fort Worth.

Sports

Florida State University animation team.

FSU competes in the NCAA Division I Atlantic Coast Conference with both men's and women's teams. Men's programs include baseball, basketball, cross country running, football, golf, swimming, tennis, and track. The women's programs are: basketball, cross country running, golf, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track, and volleyball. His nickname is Seminoles. This Native American name is used under the explicit permission of the Seminole Tribe. Its traditional rivals are the University of Florida and the University of Miami.

Under the tutelage of coach Bobby Bowden, the American football team has become a national power. FSU have fought for the national champion title five times between 1993 and 2001, having won said championship three times (1993, 1999 and 2013).