UCF Beats UF For Largest Florida School
Academics, News, Videos — By Jennifer Evans on August 28, 2009 at 11:29 amIf you have been thinking that it seems like more students than ever are crowding our roads and attempting to park on campus, you are right.
The fall 2009 semester is a record-setting one for UCF to say the least. Not only is this year’s freshmen profile the best ever in UCF history, the enrollment count has reached astonishing numbers.
According to UCF, in 1998, only 11 years ago, the school had only 30,000 students. The preliminary fall 2009 headcount shows that this number has grown to 53,811. There are 11,940 new students at UCF this year, made up of freshmen, transfer, and graduate students. There was an increase of 3,536 students from the 2008 school year.
Even more impressive is that these numbers place UCF ahead of UF in total enrollment. For the first time, the University of Central Florida is the largest college in Florida. These constantly increasing numbers, along with other factors like UCF’s new med school, have UCF now ranked at No. 5 on the “Top Up-and-Coming School” list by U.S. News & World Report.
As the school year begins, you may question whether UCF can even handle this many students. Will parking continue to get worse as more students choose UCF? Will the local roads become unbearable because of traffic? We want to know your opinion on our constantly growing school.
Despite these unavoidable effects of this many students, the University of Central Florida is clearly proud to have come so far since 1963.
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I heard University of Phoenix has a lot of students too. Does that make them good?
We didn’t beat UF. We lost to UF when UCF got bigger. Getting bigger is a bad thing.
Its great the UCF is getting bigger, but the problem is the State hiring freeze. This means, no hiring of new faculty and staff. Even if a professor leaves, UCF still can not hire someone new.
So even though we grew in the number of students, we have not grown in the amount of resources offered to us which hurts us.
Brian Peterson is far from a ‘moron’ as you call him. Becoming the largest school in the state gives us distinction and acknowledgment throughout the state and country.
Not only that, but the number of graduate students who are researching actually increased in greater percentage then the number of incoming freshmen from last fall.
Brian Peterson is such a moron. UCF being a bigger school doesn’t make it a good school. It makes it a worse school with terrible overcrowding. It means that each teacher has to take on a larger amount of students which means more papers to grade, easier test causing grade inflation and more catering and less time for research.
They should cap it at 50K and simply stop growing. Instead send the rest of the kids to the new state schools.
some people are bringing their own seats to class
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