University of Florida (UF)

The University of Florida (UF) is one of the largest research universities in the US, and is consistently ranked as one of the world's best universities by major publications such as the THES, ARWU and Webometrics.

UF has been a member of the Association of American Universities. It was the first university in the world to be designated a "Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary" (2005) for environmental and wildlife management, resource conservation, waste management, and outreach and education.

University Rankings:

- Placed among the top 15 public universities in the nation (US News National Universities Ranking 2010).

- 25th nationally in the US News Graduate Engineering Rankings 2010.

- 22nd globally in the ranking of World Top Universities by Webometrics (January 2009).

- Placed among the top 200 universities in THE-QS World University Rankings, rated 135th globally in 2007, 165th in 2008. In 2009 it is placed 201st overall and in the top 200 for the following subjects: 188th internationally for Engineering & IT, and 161st for Natural Sciences.

- According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2009, UF is placed 58th in the world and 41st in North & Latin America.

- 13th in The Princeton Review's "2009 Best 368 Colleges Rankings".

- 2nd in the Law Specialty Ranking: Tax Law (USNWR 2009).

- 45th globally in in Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy (ARWU 2009).

- 4th in the Playboy’s List of Top 10 Party Schools 2009.

- UF is ranked 26th overall by Washington Monthly (2009).

- 58th globally in the Shanghai Jiao Tong University's ARWU Rankings 2008.

- Placed 2nd among all universities in Kiplinger's "100 Best Values in Public Colleges" 2008.

- Ranked as one of the 50 Best Business Schools in the US by The International Education Commission.

- Rated as one of the "Top 25 Hottest Schools" by Newsweeek 2007.

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