QS ranking profile
University of Florida
This page presents clearly labeled QS ranking data for orientation. It does not verify programs, supervisors, funding, admission requirements, or the university's website.
- QS 2026 rank
- #212
- Up 3 places since 2025
- QS 2025 rank
- #215
- Overall score
- 54.6
Explore opportunities at University of Florida
Browse active research positions, doctoral fellowships, and university funding calls indexed from official faculties and verified sources.
QS indicators
Reported ranking indicators
Each indicator is scored out of 100 in the same QS snapshot as the summary above.
#179 worldwide
#215 worldwide
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Institution profile
How QS classifies this institution
QS groups institutions by size, subject range, and research output.
- Size
- Extra large
- More than 30,000 students
- Subject range
- Focused
- Teaches a limited range of faculty areas
- Research intensity
- Very high
- Very high research output in the QS classification
- Region
- Americas
- QS regional grouping
University profile
About University of Florida
Editorial background written for orientation. Verify programs, funding, and admission on the university's official pages.
A statewide research setting with many academic entry points
University of Florida presents a broad academic structure that includes certificates, undergraduate majors, graduate degrees, and a public emphasis on artificial intelligence across fields. Its central material also points to the UF Health network and UF/IFAS activity in every Florida county. For a prospective researcher, this shows that university activity can extend beyond the Gainesville campus and involve health, agriculture, technology, and community settings. It does not establish the right route for an individual question. Begin with the college, department, or programme that owns the subject, then use the wider institutional structure to understand any relevant research context.
The university's public research stories span areas such as semiconductors, diabetes, agriculture, mosquito-borne disease, hurricanes, and Parkinson's research. These examples can be useful for discovering the language used in active work. They are not a programme catalogue or a promise that every topic has the same opportunities. Follow a story to the research group, department, or expert associated with it. That will show whether the methods, research setting, and academic field are actually aligned with the work you want to develop.
Research impact pages can generate better questions
UF's impact material connects research with public, statewide, national, and global contexts. It also identifies work with scientific and technical themes that reach beyond one discipline. Use this as a way to sharpen your question. If a topic is connected to health, environment, food systems, engineering, or computing, ask what part of the university is doing the work and what kind of evidence it uses. The answer should come from a current local source, not from an institution-wide statement about impact.
The university's AI-related material is another example of a cross-cutting theme. A technology theme may appear in different colleges with different purposes and methods. One unit may focus on technical development, another on a field application, and another on social or organisational consequences. Map the part that is relevant to your question instead of assuming that a university-wide initiative defines every academic route. This distinction will make a research comparison more accurate.
Write a University of Florida comparison record
A useful University of Florida note contains the formal academic home, a current research group or project, and a short account of your own connection. The connection might be a prior study, a technical skill, a data method, laboratory experience, fieldwork, or a practical question from work. Keep the description narrow enough to reveal whether you understand the research setting. A broad sentence about health, technology, or public impact is only a starting point; a strong note identifies the problem and the work around it.
Review the latest material from the relevant programme and group before making a decision. Central UF sources can show the scope of the institution, while local pages clarify the details of an individual route. A careful shortlist should preserve that distinction and stay focused on current evidence that ties your question to an identifiable academic setting. The statewide health and agricultural context may help frame a topic, but the named college or research group must still show how that topic is being investigated.