Cost
Campus
- Living on-campus is the best way to get involved, meet new people, and give yourself a leg up in the class room.
- University Housing's 16 residence halls provide housing for 6,387 undergraduate students on the main FSU campus.
- FSU is ranked in the top 100 most affordable colleges in the U.S.
- The FSU Office of Financial Aid awards over 280 million dollars of assistance each year to eligible students in the form of scholarships, grants, work-study, and loans to help them achieve their educational goals.
Social Life
- Greek Life
- FSU works with 57 social fraternities and sororities that promote leadership, scholarship, brotherhood/sisterhood and service.
- Clubs/Organizations
- Join one of 700 recognized student organizations, honor societies, Greek organizations, community service groups, or start your own brand new student org to meet like minds and make lifelong friends.
- Recreation
- The Leach Recreation Center and Fitness & Movement Clinic is home to an extensive collection of workout equipment where you can enjoy group fitness and personal training opportunities.
- Play to win or just for fun by participating in one of over 50 intramural and club sports.
- Swim, sun, paddleboard, and more at the "Rez", FSU's lakefront property.
Opportunities
Admission
Florida State University
- Living Learning Communities
- A small group of students who live together, share an interest, and take one or two of their classes together — usually in a small classroom inside their residence hall.
- Honors Program
- An enriched program of academic experiences for our most outstanding students which provides opportunities for research, honor societies, and national fellowships/scholarships.
- Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP)
- Students can choose from literally hundreds of projects representing all areas of study and join an established researcher to collect data, co-author, and present findings at conferences.
- International Programs
- We have 40 study abroad programs in 20 locations around the world where students can travel the globe to study every imaginable subject from international leaders in their fields.
The History of Florida State
- 1851: as the all-male Seminary West of the Suwannee River.
- 1905: Florida legislature passed the Buckman Act
- Sent all men on our campus to....
- 1909: Established Florida State College for Women
- Adopted our motto: Vires, Artes, Mores
- 1947: Following WWII, we became coeducational
- Renamed Florida State University
- Adopted the Florida Seminole as our mascot in honor of their unconquered spirit
Academics
- Many of our programs consistently rank among the nation’s top 25 public universities
- Including: Physics, Chemistry, Statistics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Meteorology, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Criminology, Information, Creative Writing, Public Policy, Business and Law.
- Florida State University's arts programs—dance, film, music and theatre—rank among the finest in the world.
- FSU is home to the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, funded by the National Science Foundation.
- Other research centers, such as the Center for Advanced Power Systems, are supported by the U.S. Departments of Defense and Energy.
Why Florida State?
- FSU is ranked #33 and climbing among top public universities.
- FSU has a 93% retention and 80% graduation rates, meaning students that go here are more likely to stay and graduate here.
- FSU is ranked #2 nationally in efficiently providing academic quality (US News & World Report).
- With more than 130 majors and nationally ranked programs in the arts, sciences, social sciences and business, you can study what you love and work one-on-one with dedicated, world-class professors.