QS World University Rankings: Top global universities
Bordered by a Great Lake and a global city, our campus offers the best of both worlds. We’re taking on the world’s most pressing challenges, with and for people everywhere. Every day, the people and programs at the University of Florida solve problems, change lives and widen our view of what’s possible. We are horrified by the continuing violence, death and destruction in the Middle East and its impact on members of our campus community. The first-of-its-kind, zero-carbon residence hall will be the largest living-building residential complex on a university campus anywhere. The German model of the university as a complex of graduate schools performing advanced research and experimentation proved to have a worldwide influence. The earliest Western institution that can be called a university was a famous medical school that arose at Salerno, Italy, in the 9th century and drew students from all over Europe. The first true university in the West was founded at Bologna late in the 11th