The University of Florida (UF), founded in 1853 with roots in the East Florida Seminary and established on its Gainesville campus in 1905, is Florida’s premier flagship public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university and an elected member of the Association of American Universities (AAU). Consistently ranked among the Top 5/6 public universities in the United States and #28 among all national universities by U.S. News & World Report, UF is globally celebrated for its institutional commitment to artificial intelligence through its NVIDIA-powered HiPerGator supercomputer—one of the most powerful academic AI supercomputers in the world—and its pioneering "AI Across the Curriculum" initiative. With an annual research expenditure exceeding $1.25 billion, UF encompasses 16 distinguished academic colleges offering over 100 undergraduate majors and more than 200 graduate degree programs (including the Hough Graduate School of Business, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, Fredric G. Levin College of Law, and UF Health Shands Academic Health Center). Spanning over 2,000 contiguous acres in Gainesville, the university provides an intellectually vibrant and culturally storied home for over 56,000 students, including 5,000+ international scholars from over 130 nations, bolstered by an iconic Gator athletics tradition and world-spanning alumni network.

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