Florida State University (FSU), a sea-grant and space-grant public research university founded in 1851, consists of 16 colleges and more than 100 facilities, centers, facilities, and labs. Florida State University, known for its nationally ranked academic programs, enrolls about 42,000 students in more than 300 programs of study leading to a variety of undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees.
All the colleges and schools provide graduate degrees. FSU provides combined BA/MA programs. FSU has strong foundations in the sciences, with meteorology, biology, and chemistry ranked among the school’s best programs.
Through the Office of Distance Learning, FSU offers online degrees with courses which follow a semester schedule. Florida State University’s online undergraduate degree programs require students to have completed 60 or more semester hours of transferable credit, including all liberal arts requirements.
Florida State University offers bachelor’s degrees in public safety and security, computer science, criminology, and interdisciplinary social science; nearly 20 master’s degrees such as business administration, communication disorders, criminology, educational leadership/administration, and nurse educator; post-master’s degree programs in educational leadership/administration, and library and information systems; and numerous certificate programs.
FSU offers most online courses in an asynchronous format.
The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education recognizes Florida State University as a research university with very high research activity. FSU has over 50 prominent research centers and institutes.
U.S. News & World Report ranked Florida State University #95 in National Universities in its 2015 edition of Best Colleges. The magazine also ranked Florida State #39 in Best Education Schools and #172 in Best Global Universities. Florida State University also tied for #43 in Top Public Schools.
Bloomberg Business ranked Florida State University’s College of Business #85 in its 2014 list of Undergraduate Business School Programs. Forbes ranked Florida State #102 in Research Universities, while Princeton Review included FSU among the 2015 Best 379 Colleges.
The respected Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business provided accreditation to Florida State University’s College of Business. Florida State University also holds accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
