Campus

Florida State's independent campus is placed at inside Tallahassee near the Florida State Capitol building. A campus is bordered 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.

Florida State too maintains 2 extra campuses inside Panama City and Sarasota. Additionally, Florida State operates an overseas branch campus by owning degree software online in the Republic of Panama.

Additionally to a branch campuses, the university offers a kind of oversewhen survey chance for students around the period of the regular academic season, also as in favorite summertime software download. FSU operates learn centers for overseas survey oppare located in Florence, Italy; Republic of Panama; Valencia, Spain; and London, England.

A university is residence to the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, funded by the National Science Foundation. More research facility, like a Center for Advanced Power Systems, supported per Office of Naval Research, place a university at the cutting edge of the food & drug administration and its application to industry.

A Ringling Museum within Sarasota is affiliated with a university, & is the big museum/university complex in the U.S. & houses one of a virtually all important collections of art within North America.

History
a Law-makers of the State of Florida inside a Legislative Work of January 2 dozen, 1851, provided for the establishment of deuce seminaries of learning, 1 to become placed east & the more west of the Suwannee Flow of any stream. By 1854, a City of Tallahassee experienced established a school for boys known as the Florida Institute. A city's hope wwhen that a State would choose it complete as one of a seminaries. When an abortive attempt per city to produce this happen inside 1854, City manager Francis Eppes in 1857, again mass produced a offer which was accepted per Florida Legislature. Around 1857 first meeting of the Board of Education of the State Seminary West of the Suwannee River was held. A school became co-education a charted season, while it absorbed a Tallahassee Female Academy, begun within 1843 when a Misses Bates School. the school existed whenever a West Florida Seminary from either 1857 until 1863, when a state legislative changed a title to a Florida Military & Collegiate Institute, reflecting the addition of a military part which trained plebe. Around 1901, a school was renamed Florida State College, & was a tetrad-month institution organized inside quadruplet departments: a College, a School for Teachers, the School of Music, & the College Academy. Within the 1905, Florida's educational rules was reorganized per state Legislative, & sixer state institutions of higher learning were consolidated into ii whenever a University of Florida in Gainesville was established and intended the men's school & the Florida State College became a women's school known as a Florida Female College. Around 1909 the name of the college was changed to Florida State College for Women. Require by giving Globe War II veterans got brought men back to a campus around 1946 using the establishment of the Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida. In Might 15, 1947, a Governor of Florida signed an work of A Law-makers giving Florida State College for Women to co-ed status & naming it The Florida State University. Now, a student people is most 38,000. Florida State is likewise a residence of the 1st chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society in a state of Florida, and is personal to one of the oldest schools of public administration in the united states. Florida State is presently is comprised of xvii independent schools & colleges.

Academics

Florida State University has leading graduate, undergrad, & agent software online that include Law and Medicine.

In the 2006 U.S. News & World Report of Best Colleges, Florida State was ranked 51st (from 54th in 2005) among all public research universities in the U.S, and is ranked 109th (up from 111 in 2005) among all national universities.

A fully licensed College of Medicine is the first newly M.D. program to be established in the United States since 1982. These are charting the recently course for medical education using an emphasis on the utilize of interdisciplinary teams and emerging new technology. Created inside June of 2000 per Florida Legislature, its mission is educating physicians to serve a state's rural, geriatric, minority & more medically underserved populations. A medical school's regional campuses are around Tallahassee, Pensacola, Jacksonville, Orlando, Sarasota, and Ft. Myers.

A Florida State University College of Law has jumped Eleven slots to 56th in the latest edition of the influential national rankings of school of law by U.S. News & World Report. A magazine's 2006 edition of United states of america's Right Graduate Schools besides ranks a College of Law as one of the virtually all diverse in the united states. Environmental Law Program Ranks 14th within United states. Hispanic Business Magazine has ranked a College of Law among the top Tenner school of law in the united states for Hispanics for the second sequentially season. Hispanics processed higher 9 percent of the school's 748-member student person & received 11 percent of the 205 law degrees awarded to the class of 2004.

A College of Business has consistently been ranked one of a Top 40 undergrad business schools by U.S. News & World Report at 38th. Among public universitities these are in the Top 25. & a program has grown to exist as one of a united states's 10 big. A college occurs as recognized leader within graduating minority doctoral candidates. the college earned a for-place spot in the Black Issues' Top 100, for its profits withwithin awarding a doctor's degree in business to African Americans. In a Academy of Management Journal [http://www.bus.indiana.edu/ardennis/rankings/mbatop100-2.htm] the college's software within Management Information Systems was graded 15th & is the greatest ranked MIS program in the State of Florida. A college likewise offers low MBA programs.

A Dedman School of Hospitality is in the College of Business at FSU. According to input from either industry representatives, hospitality management business component of the program is what attracts companies to FSU students, following the school boasts a uniform 100% job placement record. A Dedman School of Hospitality also offers a major around Professional Golf Management, one of seventeen computer program countrywide accredited per Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA), to prepare students to meet these challenges. A state of Florida has additional links course than any more state in the united states & is the headquarters for the PGA, LPGA, PGA Tour, and National Golf Foundation amd FSU has a long, distinguished history of graduating agency golfers & educating students for business & cordial reception operations.

FSU's Computer Science program is the only Floridthe school that is a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAE/IAE) by the National Security Agency. Its peers includes schools like a united states's foremost computing school at Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This designation is attained across a competitory run that evaluates the school's ability to meet rigorous standards for facts assurance education.

A College of Information's programs in Information Studies/Technology is one of the most respected and consistantly top-ranked programs in the nation and has held such rankings for many years in the U.S. News & World Report. The program tied for 12th, the School Library Media program ranked 2nd and the Services for Children and Youth specialization program tied for 2nd. The college has the largest online MLS program in the nation. According to the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper, the undergraduate program in Information Technology is sprouting in popularity.

The School of Theatre is one of the leading comprehensive theatre training programs in the United States. U.S. News and World Report has consistently included FSU's graduate theatre programs in its top-tier rankings in the top-10, one of the few public university programs thus honored. The School is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Theatre and is a founding member of the University/Resident Theatre Association.

Many of FSU's other academic programs consistently rank among the nation’s top twenty-five public universities, including programs in Chemistry, Creative Writing, Criminology, Dance, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Film, Meteorology, Music, Oceanography, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Policy, Statistics, and Sociology. [http://www.fsu.edu/~pres/98state/speech4.html]

The Taxol Story

A signifigant achivement at the university was chemistry professsor and synthetic organic chemist, Dr. Robert A. Holton's synthesizing of Taxol on Dec. 9, 1993. The breast and ovarian cancer treatment.

Holton's and his Organic Chemistry team finished a race to develop a cheaper semisynthetic version. In 1993 Bristol Myers Squibb began marketing it. Just like other chemotherapy drugs, it had side effects. But it also prolonged lives and in many cases defeated cancer.

Before the drug company's exclusive license expired, Florida State made $350 million in royalties, vaulting the school into the ranks of Columbia University and California's state universities in research profits.

Enrollment

Fall 2005 enrollment is 39,218 students. Women account for 56.7% of FSU's enrollment. Minorities made up 24.2% percent of total enrollment. 47.8% of the minority enrollment was Black, 38.6% Hispanic, 12.0% Asian, and 1.6% was American Indian.

According to the Tallahassee Democrat, the average SAT for the Fall 2005 class is 1209. The Fall 2004 class had an SAT average of 1199. [http://www.ir.fsu.edu/Performance_Indicators/Major/Mj05.pdf]

Departments
Bachelors, master's, specialist's, doctoral, and professional degree programs are offered through the College of Arts & Sciences; the College of Business; the College of Communication; the College of Education; the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, jointly administered with Florida A&M University; the College of Human Sciences; the College of Law; the College of Medicine; the College of Social Sciences; the School of Criminology & Criminal Justice; the School of Motion Picture, Television & Recording Arts (Film School); the College of Information; the College of Music; the School of Nursing; the College of Social Work; the School of Theatre; and the School of Visual Arts & Dance.

Traditions

The school's colors are garnet and gold. School songs include the alma mater, "High Over Towering Pines" along with the "Hymn to the Garnet and Gold" and the "FSU Fight Song". Florida State's school colors of garnet and gold are a merging of the University's past. In 1904 and 1905 the Florida State College won football championships wearing purple and gold uniforms. When FSC became Florida State College for Women in 1905, the football team was forced to attend an all male school in Gainesville. The following year, the FSCW student body selected crimson as the official school color. The administration in 1905 took crimson and combined it with the recognizable purple of the championship football teams to achieve the color garnet. The now famous garnet and gold colors were first used on an FSU uniform in a 14-6 loss to Stetson on October 18, 1947. [http://www.college-basketball-tickets.net/florida_state_seminoles/history.htm]

School Athletics
The school has an athletic department with programs for men and for women. The men's program consists of as baseball, basketball, cross country running, football, golf, swimming, tennis, and track & field. The women's program consists of basketball, cross country running, golf, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track & field, and volleyball.

The school's athletic teams are called the Seminoles . They participate in the NCAA's Division I (Division I-A for football) and in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Their traditional rivals include the Gators of the University of Florida and the Hurricanes of the University of Miami.

Under head coach Bobby Bowden, currently in his 30th year, the Seminole football team became one of the nation's perennial powers, greatly expanding the tradition that had been virtually non-existent for the 30 years of football before Bowden. The Seminoles played in five national championship games between 1993 and 2001, and have claimed the championship twice, in 1993 and 1999. The FSU football team was one of the most successful teams in college football during the 1990s, boasting an 89% winning percentage. FSU also set an NCAA record for most consecutive Top 5 finishes in the AP football poll - the Seminoles received placement 14 years in a row, from 1987 to 2000. The Seminoles were the first college football team in history to have gone wire-to-wire (ranked first place from preseason to postseason since the AP began releasing preseason rankings in 1950).

Facilities
Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium Mike Martin Field at Dick Howser Stadium Donald L. Tucker Center JoAnne Graf Field Seminole Golf Course Scott Speicher Tennis Center Mike Long Track Bobby E. Leach Recreation Center Tully Gymnasium Westcott Building

FSU is home to a pair of cutting edge nuclear resonance magnets that are used for theoretical physics research as well as for developing cures for cancer and neurological disorders. The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL), or "Mag Lab", is one of only nine such facilities in the world.

Also notable is FSU's Antarctic Research Facility, the largest repository of Antarctic sedimentary core samples in the world.

Famous alumni
Stephanie Abrams, meteorologist, The Weather Channel Reubin O'Donovan Askew, former Governor of Florida Paul Azinger, professional golfer Alan Ball, screenwriter, director, Six Feet Under, American Beauty Fred Biletnikoff, NFL Hall of fame player Terry Bowden, television commentator (son of FSU coach Bobby Bowden), ABC Sports Allen Boyd Jr., congressman (Democrat) Derrick Brooks, professional NFL football player, Tampa Bay Buccaneers Matt Chapman, co-creator of Homestar Runner Tara Dawn Holland Christensen, Miss America (1997), singer Rita Coolidge, singer Lee Corso, sports broadcaster, ESPN J.D. Drew, professional MLB baseball player, Los Angeles Dodgers Warrick Dunn, professional NFL football player, Atlanta Falcons Davis Gaines, stage actor, The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) General Jay Garner, United States Army, ret. defense consultant Paul Gleason, actor Paris N. Glendening, former Governor of Maryland (1995 - 2003) Traylor Howard, actress Dick Howser, professional MLB baseball player Tony La Russa (J.D.), MLB manager, St. Louis Cardinals Christine Lahti, actress Drew McWeeny, film critic, Ain't it Cool News Doug Marlette, cartoonist Mel Martinez (J.D.), former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and current Florida Senator (Republican) Doug Mientkiewicz, professional MLB baseball player, New York Mets Jim Morrison, singer/songwriter, (Attended but did not receive a degree) Henry Polic, actor Scott Proctor, professional MLB baseball player, New York Yankees Gabrielle Reece, professional volleyball player, model Burt Reynolds, actor Marcus Roberts, jazz pianist Deion Sanders, professional NFL football player, Baltimore Ravens Ron Sellers, professional NFL football player Winston Scott, astronaut Sonny Shroyer, actor Richard Simmons, fitness expert Tonea Stewart, actress Bob Sura, NBA basketball player Norman Thagard, NASA astronaut Charlie Ward, Heisman Trophy winner, professional NBA basketball player David Ward-Steinman, composer Chris Weinke, Heisman Trophy winner, professional NFL football player, Carolina Panthers Mark S. Wrighton (Ph.D.), Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis Robert Urich, actor Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, composer, 1st woman to win Pulitzer prize in music

More distinguished/notable alumni can be found at the FSU Alumni Association, [http://www.fsu.edu/~FSUAlum/distinguished/index.html].

Nobel Laureates
Paul A. M. Dirac, [http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1933/ 1933 Physics] Konrad E. Bloch, [http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1964/ 1964 Medicine] Robert Sanderson Mulliken, [http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1966/ 1966 Chemistry] J. Robert Schrieffer, [http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1972/ 1972 Physics] (currently on staff) James M. Buchanan Jr., [http://nobelprize.org/economics/laureates/1986/ 1986 Economics] Sir Harold W. Kroto, [http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1996/ 1996 Chemistry] (currently on staff)