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{{Main|History of Florida State University}}

File:Entry to FSU - panoramio.jpg was the location of the Florida State Library until 1956. Rendered in gold leaf is the phrase, "The half of knowledge is to know where to find knowledge."{{Cite web |title=Dodd Hall |url=https://legacywalk.fsu.edu/locations/dodd-hall/ |access-date=July 18, 2024 |website=FSU Legacy Walk |language=en-US}}]]

Florida State University is traceable to a plan set by the 1823 U.S. Congress to create a higher education system.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jpVHAQAAIAAJ&q=university+of+florida |title=Memorial of the Trustees of the University of Florida (R.K. Call, John G. Gamble, Thomas Randall, Louis M. Goldsborough, Thos. Eston Randolph, F. Eppes, E. Loockerman, Benjamin Chaires, Turbutt R. Betton, Fitch W. Taylor, J. Loring Woart, Ashbeel Steele, J. Edwin Stewart)|page= cxxiii |publisher=United States Congress |date=December 7, 1835 |access-date=January 13, 2020}} The 1838 Florida Constitution codified the primary system by providing for land allocated for the schools.{{Cite web |title=Florida Constitution of 1838 |url=https://library.law.fsu.edu/Digital-Collections/CRC/CRC-1998/conhist/1838con.html |access-date=July 12, 2024 |website=library.law.fsu.edu}} In 1845 Congress passed the law admitting Florida as the 27th state. In a supplementary act to the law granting admission, Congress authorized two townships to host seminaries, one east and one west of the Suwannee River.{{Cite web |last=Green |first=Edwin L |date=September 14, 1898 |title=School history of Florida. Baltimore Williams & Wilkins company, 1898. | url=https://www.loc.gov/item/01006858/|access-date=July 12, 2024 |website=Library of Congress |pages=290–291}}

In 1851, the Florida Legislature authorized the seminaries to be awarded to the two towns offering the best school support. The legislature declared the first purpose of these institutions was to train male and female teachers in all subjects generally taught at public schools, then to educate the public in agriculture, science, law and citizenship.{{cite web |url= https://www.fsu.edu/about/history.html |title=About Florida State – History |publisher=Office of University Communications |date=September 23, 2009 |access-date=January 8, 2018 }}

While the East Seminary was settled in Ocala in 1853, the West Seminary state institution opportunity created a contentious fight between the towns of Quincy, Marianna, and Tallahassee.{{Cite journal |last=Dodd |first=William G. |date=1948 |title=Early Education in Tallahassee and the West Florida Seminary, Now Florida State University, Part II |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol27/iss2/5?utm_source=stars.library.ucf.edu%2Ffhq%2Fvol27%2Fiss2%2F5&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages |journal=Florida Historical Quarterly |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=2–5 |via=STARS.Library.ucf.edu}} Quincy dropped out of the competition in the following years, while Marianna and Tallahassee refused to yield. Failing to resolve the impasse, the conflict was returned to the governor and legislature for resolution. In 1854, as an incentive to the state, Tallahassee re-established an old school for boys, now called the Florida Institute, and combined the school with land and buildings. The legislature finally awarded Tallahassee with the West Seminary in 1856. The governor signed the law on January 1, 1857.{{Cite web |date=July 29, 2024 |title=1856 Law locating the West Florida Seminary in Tallahassee |url=https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/25059 |access-date=July 29, 2024 |website=State Archives of Florida - Florida Memory}}{{Cite journal |last=Dodd |first=William G. |date=1948 |title=Early Education in Tallahassee and the West Florida Seminary, Now Florida State University, Part II |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol27/iss2/5?utm_source=stars.library.ucf.edu%2Ffhq%2Fvol27%2Fiss2%2F5&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages |journal=Florida Historical Quarterly |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=5 |via=STARS.Library.ucf.edu}} In October 1858 the school was made coeducational by incorporating the Female Institute, which was located nearby.{{Cite journal |last=Dodd |first=William G. |date=1948 |title=Early Education in Tallahassee and the West Florida Seminary, Now Florida State University, Part II |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol27/iss2/5?utm_source=stars.library.ucf.edu%2Ffhq%2Fvol27%2Fiss2%2F5&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages |journal=Florida Historical Quarterly |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=13 |via=STARS.Library.ucf.edu}}

The West Florida Seminary was located on the former Florida Institute property. The area, slightly west of the state Capitol, was formerly and ominously known as Gallows Hill, a place for public executions in early Tallahassee.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e6s-hd6lBiQC&pg=PA42 |title=Tallahassee – A Capital City History|page=42|access-date=July 12, 2024|isbn=978-0-7385-2371-2|author1=Hare, Julianne|date=May 1, 2002|publisher=Arcadia }}{{Cite web |last=Norris, Wellge & Co. |date=1885 |title=Bird's-Eye View of Tallahassee, 1885. |url=http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/323098 |access-date=July 12, 2024 |website=State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory.}}

During 1860–1861, the legislature amended the 1851 law and started military instruction for students, partly due to the desire to protect the instructional staff from conscription, which would have closed the school.{{Cite journal |last=Boyd |first=Mark F. |title=The Joint Operations of the Federal Army and Navy Near St. Marks, Florida, March 1865 |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2386&context=fhq | date=October 1950 |journal=Florida Historical Quarterly |volume=29 |issue=2 |year=1950 |location=St. Augustine, Florida |publication-date=October 1950 |page=22}} During the Civil War, the seminary became "'The Florida Military and Collegiate Institute.'" {{Cite journal| last=Coles | first=David J. | title=Florida's Seed Corn: The History of the West Florida Seminary During the Civil War |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4216&context=fhq | journal=Florida Historical Quarterly | year=1999 | volume=77 | issue=3 | pages=283–319 | jstor=30147582}} Enrollment grew to around 250 students. The school arguably became the state's largest and most respected educational institution. In 1865, at the Battle of Natural Bridge south of Tallahassee, cadets from the school joined active-duty Confederate troops in the defensive line.{{Cite web |title=Battle of Natural Bridge |url=https://www.battlefields.org/learn/maps/battle-natural-bridge |access-date=2025-01-03 |website=American Battlefield Trust |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Boyd |first=Mark F. |title=The Joint Operations of the Federal Army and Navy Near St. Marks, Florida, March 1865 |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2386&context=fhq |date=October 1950 |journal=Florida Historical Quarterly |volume=29 |issue=2 |year=1950 |location=St. Augustine, Florida |publication-date=October 1950 |page=27}}File:Denham FSU rc11524.jpgThe cadets were trained by Valentine Mason Johnson and led into battle by Captain D.W. Gwynn.{{Cite journal |last=Boyd |first=Mark F. |title=The Joint Operations of the Federal Army and Navy Near St. Marks, Florida, March 1865 |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2386&context=fhq |date=October 1950 |journal=Florida Historical Quarterly |volume=29 |issue=2 |year=1950 |location=St. Augustine, Florida |publication-date=October 1950 |pages=12, 27}}{{Cite web |title=Historical Rosters Database – Valentine Mason Johnson, Roster ID 748 |url=https://archivesweb.vmi.edu/rosters/record.php?ID=748 |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute}} Some reports show the cadets played a minor role in the battle defending artillery pieces.{{Cite web |last=Ensley |first=Gerald |title=Battle of Natural Bridge myths endure |url=https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2017/03/01/battle-natural-bridge-myths-endure/98525912/ |access-date=July 1, 2024 |website=Tallahassee Democrat |language=en-US}} The combined Confederate forces defeated attacking Union forces leaving Tallahassee as the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi River not to fall to Union forces.{{Cite web |date=July 12, 2024 |title=Florida Memory – Timeline – State Library and Archives of Florida |url=https://www.floridamemory.com/learn/exhibits/timeline/ |access-date=July 12, 2024 |website=Institute of Museum and Library Services}}"West Florida Seminary cadets taking a break."
{{cite web |url=http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/reference/rc01132.jpg |title=State Library and Archives of Florida – Florida Photographic Collection, West Florida Seminary Cadets, published circa 187-. |access-date=April 29, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090927130053/http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/reference/rc01132.jpg |archive-date=September 27, 2009 |url-status=live }}

At the surrender of Florida, Union military forces disarmed the cadets and used campus buildings as barracks until September 1865. The school then reopened and resumed its academic purpose.{{Cite journal |last=Boyd |first=Mark F. |title=The Joint Operations of the Federal Army and Navy Near St. Marks, Florida, March 1865 |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2386&context=fhq |date=October 1950 |journal=Florida Historical Quarterly |volume=29 |issue=2 |year=1950 |location=St. Augustine, Florida |publication-date=October 1950 |page=28}}{{Cite book|title=History of West Florida Seminary |last=Dodd |first=William G. |year=1952 |publisher=Florida State University |location=Tallahassee, Florida |pages=27–28}} The FSU Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) is authorized to display a battle streamer Natural Bridge 1865.{{Cite web |date=August 25, 2014 |title=FSU 101: Intro to Florida State History |url=https://fsuspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/fsu-101-intro-to-florida-state-history/ |access-date=July 1, 2024 |website=Illuminations |language=en}} FSU is one of four institutions that can display a military battle streamer.{{Cite web |title=War Between The States |url=https://www.citadel.edu/citadel-history/war-deaths/war-between-the-states |access-date=July 18, 2024 |website=The Citadel History |language=en-US}}

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In 1883, the institution officially known as the West Florida Seminary was organized by the Board of Education as the Literary College of the University of Florida. (In the terminology of the time, schools were divided into seminaries and literary institutions; the name does not imply a focus on literature.) Under the new university charter, the seminary became the institution's Literary College and was to contain several "schools" or departments in different disciplines.{{Cite book | last=Bush | first=George Gary | title=History of Education in Florida | publisher=Government Printing Office | year=1889 | location=Washington | pages=46–47 | url= https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1956&context=cfm-texts| access-date=July 13, 2010 }} However, in the new university association the seminary's "separate Charter and special organization" were maintained.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OFcpAAAAYAAJ |title=Journal of the Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Florida, p. 21 |date=June 9, 1885 |publisher=Harvard College Library | access-date=July 13, 2010|author1=Constitutional Convention, Florida}} Florida University also incorporated the Tallahassee College of Medicine and Surgery, and recognized three more colleges to be established at a later date. The Florida Legislature recognized the university under the title " University of Florida" in Spring 1885 but committed no additional financing or support.{{cite web| last=Armstrong | first=Orland Kay | title=The Life and Work of Dr. A. A. Murphree|page=40 | date= 1928 | url=http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc/?m=hdFC&i=76093&td=florida+universit | access-date=July 13, 2010}} Without legislative support, the university project struggled. The institution never assumed the "university" title, and the association dissolved when the medical college relocated to Jacksonville later that year.

According to Doak Campbell, Florida State University's fifth president, "During the first 50 years...its activities were limited to courses of secondary-school grade. Progress was slow. Indeed, it was not until the turn of the [twentieth] century that it could properly qualify as a collegiate institution."{{cite book

|title=A University in Transition|first=Doak|last=Campbell|author-link=Doak Campbell|location=Tallahassee|publisher=Florida State University|page=120|year=1964|url=http://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu:676995#page/Page+130/mode/2up}} In 1901, it became Florida State College.

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The 1905 Florida Legislature passed the Buckman Act, which reorganized the Florida college system into a school for white men (University of the State of Florida), a school for white women (Florida Female College later changed to Florida State College for Women), and a school for African Americans (State Normal and Industrial College for Colored Students).{{cite web |url=http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/reference/rc05025.jpg |title=State Library and Archives of Florida – Florida Photographic Collection, Westcott Building at the Florida State College for Women, published 193-. |access-date=April 28, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090927130057/http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/reference/rc05025.jpg |archive-date=September 27, 2009 |url-status=live }} The Buckman Act was controversial, as it changed the character of a historic coeducational state school into a school for women. The school's early and major benefactor, James Westcott III, willed substantial monies to support continued operations.{{Cite web |title=Florida Supreme Court – Justice James Diament Westcott, Jr. |url=https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/Justices/Former-Justices/Justice-James-Diament-Westcott-Jr |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=Supreme Court |language=en-US}} In 1911, his estate sued the state educational board contending the estate was not intended to support a single-sex school. The Florida Supreme Court decided the issue in favor of the state, stating the change in character was within the intent of the Westcott will.{{Cite web |title=Lewis v. Gaillard |url=https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/lewis-v-gaillard-885829192 |access-date=July 21, 2024 |website=vLex |language=en}} File:Phi_Beta_Kappa_Key.JPG of Florida is at FSU.{{Cite web |title=The Phi Beta Kappa Society |url=https://pbk.fsu.edu/ |access-date=July 24, 2024 |website=pbk.fsu.edu}}{{Cite web |title=PBK - About Phi Beta Kappa |url=https://www.pbk.org/about |access-date=July 24, 2024 |website=www.pbk.org}}]]By 1933 the Florida State College for Women had grown to be the third largest women's college in the US. It was the first state women's college in the South to be awarded a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, as well as the first university in Florida so honored.{{cite web|url=http://diglib.lib.fsu.edu/findaids/FTaSU2003003.pdf |title=Florida State University Libraries Special Collections Department, Inventory of the Florida State College for Women Surveys and Reports (MSS2003003), Biographical/Historical Notes. |author=Amy McDonald. |publisher=Florida State University Libraries |year=2004 |access-date=April 30, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614073823/http://diglib.lib.fsu.edu/findaids/FTaSU2003003.pdf |archive-date=June 14, 2007 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.fsu.edu/dlmc/dlc/files/dlmc/FTaSU2005014.pdf |title=Florida State University Libraries Special Collections Department, Inventory of the Florida State College for Women/Florida State University Phi Beta Kappa Alpha of Florida Chapter. (MSS2005-014) Biographical/Historical Notes. |first=Erin|last=VanClay |publisher=Florida State University Libraries |date=September 2005 |access-date=April 30, 2007|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060903010622/http://www.lib.fsu.edu/dlmc/dlc/files/dlmc/FTaSU2005014.pdf |archive-date = September 3, 2006}} Florida State was the largest of the original two state universities in Florida until 1919.{{cite web |url=http://www.flbog.org/resources/_doc/factbooks/quickfacts/200804SUS_Headcount_Enrollment_1905-present.xls |title=Florida Board of Governors SUS Headcount Enrollment – 1905 – present |access-date=May 18, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101030124855/http://flbog.org/resources/_doc/factbooks/quickfacts/200804SUS_Headcount_Enrollment_1905-present.xls |archive-date=October 30, 2010 |url-status=live }}

Returning soldiers using the G.I. Bill after World War II stressed the state university system to the point that a Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida (TBUF) was opened on the campus of the Florida State College for Women with the men housed in barracks on nearby Dale Mabry Field. By 1947 the Florida Legislature returned the FSCW to coeducational status and designated it Florida State University.{{Cite web |title=West Campus of the Florida State University-Tallahassee Branch the University of Florida Historical Marker |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=157515 |access-date=July 21, 2024 |website=www.hmdb.org |language=en}} The FSU West Campus land and barracks plus other areas continually used as an airport later became the location of the Tallahassee Community College.{{Cite web |title=Dale Mabry Field Historical Marker |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=79561 |access-date=July 21, 2024 |website=www.hmdb.org |language=en}} The post-war years brought substantial growth and development to the university as many departments and colleges were added, including Business, Journalism (discontinued in 1959), Library Science, Nursing, and Social Welfare.{{cite web | title=2009–2010 General Bulletin | work=Bulletin | publisher=Florida State University – University Registrar | date=2009–2010 | url=http://registrar.fsu.edu/bulletin/undergrad/info/the_university.htm | access-date=August 29, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091128083655/http://registrar.fsu.edu/bulletin/undergrad/info/the_university.htm | archive-date=November 28, 2009 | url-status=live }} Strozier Library (1956),{{Cite web |title=FSU Heritage Museum {{!}} University Libraries |url=https://www.lib.fsu.edu/special-collections/heritage-and-university-archives/heritage-museum |access-date=July 21, 2024 |website=www.lib.fsu.edu}} and Tully Gymnasium (1956){{Cite web |title=Tully Gymnasium |url=https://seminoles.com/sports/2023/6/21/tully-gymnasium |access-date=July 21, 2024 |website=Florida State University |language=en}} were built at this time.

Florida State University ranked third in the United States for free speech and thought in a ranking released in 2024 by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.{{Cite web |title=2025 College Free Speech Rankings {{!}} The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression |url=https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/2025-college-free-speech-rankings |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=www.thefire.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Soule |first=Douglas |title=National college free speech rankings released, with FSU in top three, others near bottom |url=https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2024/09/05/how-did-florida-universities-fare-in-free-speech-rankings/75002122007/ |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=Tallahassee Democrat |language=en-US}}

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After many years as a whites-only university, in 1962, Maxwell Courtney became the first African-American undergraduate student admitted to Florida State.{{Cite web |title=The Story Behind the Statue: Honoring the Firsts of Florida State {{!}} Department of History |url=https://history.fsu.edu/article/story-behind-statue-honoring-firsts-florida-state |access-date=2024-08-15 |website=history.fsu.edu}} Fred Flowers joined the FSU baseball team as the first African-American athlete in university history in 1965.{{Cite web |last=Weiler |first=Curt |title=Florida State recognizes its history, invites Fred Flowers to throw out first pitch |url=https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/fsu/baseball/2018/04/04/florida-state-baseball-fsu-fred-flowers-integration-first-african-american-athlete-mike-martin/481358002/ |access-date=2024-08-15 |website=Tallahassee Democrat |language=en-US}} In 1966 Lenny Hall became the first African-American basketball player for Florida State.{{Cite web |last=McGurk |first=Tom |title=Camden basketball legend, pioneer Lenny Hall dies |url=https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/sports/2014/03/13/camden-basketball-legend-pioneer-lenny-hall-dies/6348183/ |access-date=2024-09-30 |website=Courier-Post |language=en-US}} In 1968 Calvin Patterson became the first African-American player for the university football team.{{Cite web |title=Calvin Patterson · Integration at The Florida State University · Integration at The Florida State University |url=https://fsuintegration50.omeka.net/exhibits/show/integration-at-the-florida-sta/athletics/calvin-patterson |access-date=July 18, 2024 |website=fsuintegration50.omeka.net}}

File:FSU protest Tallahassee rc01458.jpgDuring the 1960s and 1970s Florida State University became a center for student activism especially in the areas of racial integration, women's rights, and opposition to the Vietnam War.{{Cite web |date=1970 |title=FSU students anti-war protest in front of the Capitol – Tallahassee, Florida. |url=https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/25389 |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory.}}{{Cite web |last=Santi |first=Federico |title=A former Flambeau photographer recalls protests of another era in 'Salad Days' book |url=https://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/2020/09/12/former-flambeau-photographer-recalls-protests-another-era/3466873001/ |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=Tallahassee Democrat |language=en-US}} The school acquired the nickname "Berkeley of the South"{{cite web |url=http://www.fsu.edu/news/2006/09/06/remembering.sixties/ |title=Florida State University, News Archive, Events |access-date=April 30, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231137/http://www.fsu.edu/news/2006/09/06/remembering.sixties/ |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |url-status=live }} during this period, about similar student activities at the University of California, Berkeley. The school is also said to have originated the 1970s fad of "streaking," said to have been first observed on Landis Green.{{Cite web |date=1974 |title=Streaking – Tallahassee, Florida |url=https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/11351 |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory.}}{{Cite web |last=Brand |first=David |title=FSU streaking craze, for no particular reason, was over in a flash {{!}} Tallahassee history |url=https://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/2019/08/03/tallahassee-history-fsu-streaking-craze-over-flash-florida-state-streaker/1894693001/ |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=Tallahassee Democrat |language=en-US}}

In 1972 Margaret Menzel, a professor in the biology department, led a class-action lawsuit charging discrimination against women in pay and promotion.{{Cite news|date=June 22, 1972|title=FSU Professors File Discrimination Suit|language=en|pages=4|publisher=Sarasota Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWs0AAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Margaret+Menzel%22&pg=PA30&article_id=4049,4448649}}{{Cite conference|last=Roberts|first=Sylvia|author-link=Sylvia Roberts|date=January 15, 1973|title=Equality of opportunity in higher education – the impact of contract compliance and the equal rights amendment|url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED074920.pdf|conference=Annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges|location=San Francisco, CA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711065148/https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED074920.pdf|access-date=October 10, 2021|archive-date=July 11, 2020|url-status=live}} The case was settled in 1975 with an agreement that the university would establish a task force to investigate bias against women at the university and to revise its anti-nepotism policy so as to not discriminate against the wives of university employees.{{Cite news|date=January 17, 1975|title=Task Force Against Discrimination Set|language=en|page=6|newspaper=Ocala Star-Banner|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RYZPAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22Margaret+Menzel%22&pg=PA10&article_id=4174,2907276}} Bill Wade, a gay male student, was elected homecoming princess using the name "Billie Dahhling" in 1980.{{Cite web |title=Florida Flambeau, October 20, 1980 {{!}} DigiNole |url=https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu%3A483196 |access-date=July 21, 2024 |website=diginole.lib.fsu.edu}}{{Cite web |last=House |first=Moriah |title=The legacy of Florida State's male homecoming princess |url=https://www.fsunews.com/story/opinion/2023/10/22/the-legacy-of-florida-states-male-homecoming-princess/71280551007/ |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=FSView |language=en-US}} While Wade's election may initially have been more college prank than protest, the controversy of the social acceptance of homosexuality was evident at FSU in the 1980s.{{Cite web |title=Male 'princess' has no regrets – UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/10/07/Male-princess-has-no-regrets/5129592200000/ |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=UPI |language=en}} Official university policy established in 2013 prohibits discrimination against multiple protected groups, including the LGBT community.{{Cite web |title=4-OP-C-7-I Equal Opportunity and Compliance (EOC) {{!}} Policies and Procedures |url=https://policies.vpfa.fsu.edu/policies-and-procedures/faculty-staff/equal-opportunity-and-compliance-eoc#I3 |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=policies.vpfa.fsu.edu}}

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The Florida Legislature approved the creation of the allopathic Florida State University College of Medicine in June 2000 due to a need for medical doctors, especially in primary care fields.Chapter C2000-303, Laws of Florida It was the first medical school approved in the United States in almost two decades.{{Cite journal |last1=Hurt |first1=Myra M. |last2=Harris |first2=J. Ocie |date=November 2005 |title=Founding a new College of Medicine at Florida State University |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16249293/ |journal=Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges |volume=80 |issue=11 |pages=973–979 |doi=10.1097/00001888-200511000-00002 |issn=1040-2446 |pmid=16249293}} The King Life Sciences Building, located next to the College of Medicine, was added June 2008, to complement medical research with research in related fields.{{Cite web |title=FSU Biology – Faculty and Research – Faculty Research Interests |url=https://www.bio.fsu.edu/index-research.php |access-date=July 10, 2024 |website=www.bio.fsu.edu}}

In 2013 the Florida Legislature and the Florida Board of Governors designated Florida State University and the University of Florida as the first two "preeminent universities" among the twelve universities of the State University System of Florida.{{Cite web |date=June 10, 2013 |title=FSU, UF Named State's Top Research Universities – CBS Miami |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/fsu-uf-named-states-top-research-universities/ |access-date=July 10, 2024 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=June 10, 2013 |title=FSU, UF Become Florida's 'Preeminent' Universities |url=https://news.wfsu.org/education/2013-06-10/fsu-uf-become-floridas-preeminent-universities |access-date=July 10, 2024 |website=WFSU News |language=en}} The status is based on objective criteria and must be earned annually.{{Cite web |title=Statutes & Constitution :View Statutes : Online Sunshine |url=http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=1000-1099/1001/Sections/1001.7065.html |access-date=July 10, 2024 |website=www.leg.state.fl.us}} The shared goal of having top national universities in Florida is highly political, often centering on the use of the term "flagship," a poorly defined and frequently inflammatory informal title.{{Cite web |last=Coleman |first=Matt |title=UF 'flagship' status doesn't last long, as critics attack Senate bill |url=https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/education/2010/04/12/uf-flagship-status-doesn-t-last-long-critics-attack-senate-bill/15949891007/ |access-date=July 10, 2024 |website=The Florida Times-Union |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Powers |first=Scott |date=July 23, 2000 |title=Flagship Status an Elusive Goal for UF |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2000/07/23/flagship-status-an-elusive-goal-for-uf/ |access-date=July 10, 2024 |website=Orlando Sentinel |language=en-US}}

{{See also|2014 Florida State University shooting|2025 Florida State University shooting}}

Two school shootings have occurred on the university campus since 2014. The first shooting occurred on November 20, 2014, when a shooter injured three and was shot dead by police.{{Cite news |last=Calamur |first=Krishnadev |date=2014-11-20 |title=Florida State University Gunman Shot Dead By Campus Police |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/20/365402196/florida-state-gunman-shot-dead-by-campus-police |access-date=2025-04-18 |work=NPR}} The second shooting occurred on April 17, 2025, where two people were killed and six others injured before the shooter was shot and injured by responding police.{{Cite news |date=2025-04-17 |title=Live Updates: Active shooter reported at Florida State University; multiple patients hospitalized |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/florida-state-university-active-shooter-rcna201756 |access-date=2025-04-17 |work=NBC News |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Yan |first=Holly |last2=Young |first2=Ryan |last3=Rosales |first3=Isabel |last4=Valencia |first4=Nick |last5=Andone |first5=Dakin |date=2025-04-17 |title=At least six people injured in mass shooting at Florida State University |url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/17/us/florida-state-university-active-shooter/index.html |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=CNN}}

{{See also|List of Buildings at Florida State University}}

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The state acquired the land of the main campus from the City of Tallahassee in January 1857 when the Florida Institute was transferred.{{Cite web |date=July 21, 2024 |title=Site List |url=https://fac-report.facilities.fsu.edu:8443/Birt/run?__report=https://fac-fileaccess.facilities.fsu.edu/AimRepo/AIM_REPOSITORIES/PRODUCTION/2017/08/29/12/58/7AAF50D6-899F-42BB-8A72-41122A3D2A51.bin&__format=pdf |access-date=July 21, 2024 |website=Florida State University – Facilities}} The main campus consists of {{convert|485.87|acre|km2|1}}. Outside Leon County the university owns more than {{convert|1715|acre|km2}}.{{Cite web |title=Office of Institutional Research – Florida State University |url=https://ir.fsu.edu/facts.aspx |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=ir.fsu.edu}} The main campus is bordered by Stadium Drive to the west, Tennessee Street (U.S. Route 90) to the north, Macomb Street to the east, and Gaines Street to the south.{{Cite web |title=Florida State University |url=http://map.concept3d.com/?id=1235 |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=map.concept3d.com |language=en}} The Westcott Building is the school's readily identifiable structure at College Avenue and S. Copeland Street.{{Cite web |title=James D. Westcott Memorial Building |url=https://legacywalk.fsu.edu/locations/westcott-building/ |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=FSU Legacy Walk |language=en-US}} The Westcott location is the oldest continuously used site of higher education in Florida and is the home of Ruby Diamond Concert Hall which serves as the university's primary performance venue.{{Cite web |date=July 21, 2024 |title=Florida State University Campus - Historical Marker |url=https://apps.flheritage.com/markers/markers.cfm?county=leon |access-date=July 21, 2024 |website=Florida Department of State – Florida Historical Markers Program}}{{Cite web |date=May 12, 2020 |title=About Florida State |url=https://licensing.fsu.edu/about-florida-state |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=Florida State University |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Ruby Diamond Concert Hall |url=https://openingnights.fsu.edu/venues/ruby-diamond-concert-hall/ |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=Opening Nights at Florida State University |language=en}}

File:FSU Landisgreen.JPGHistoric student housing residence halls include Broward, Bryan, Cawthon, Gilchrist, Jennie Murphree, Landis, and Reynolds and are located on the older eastern half of campus.{{Cite web |date=2015–2016 |title=Florida State University Buildings – Some Facts |url=https://www.ir.fsu.edu/Factbooks/2015-16/Buildings_Some_Facts.pdf |access-date=July 21, 2024 |website=Florida State University – Office of Institutional Research}} Newer residence hall complexes, Ragans and Wildwood, located near the athletic quadrant; and DeGraff Hall, located on Tennessee Street.

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On and around the Florida State University main campus are seven libraries: Robert Manning Strozier Library, Dirac Science Library named after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and Florida State University professor Paul Dirac, Claude Pepper Library, College of Music Allen Music Library, College of Law Research Center, College of Medicine Maguire Medical Library and the FAMU/FSU Engineering Library.{{Cite web |title=Visiting Our Libraries {{!}} University Libraries |url=https://www.lib.fsu.edu/visit-and-study/visiting-our-libraries#locations |access-date=July 26, 2024 |website=www.lib.fsu.edu}} Strozier Library is located at the center of the campus and is open extended hours during Fall and Spring semesters.{{Cite web |title=Robert Manning Strozier Library {{!}} University Libraries |url=https://www.lib.fsu.edu/visit-and-study/strozier-library |access-date=July 26, 2024 |website=www.lib.fsu.edu}}

File:FSU greenspace 16June2007.JPG Next to the Donald L. Tucker Center, the College of Law is between Jefferson Street and Pensacola Street. The College of Business is in the heart of campus near the FSU Student Union and across from the HCB Classroom Building. The science and research quad is located in the northwest quadrant of the campus. The College of Medicine, King Life Science buildings (biology) as well as the Department of Psychology are located on the west end of campus on Call Street and Stadium Drive.

Located off Stadium Drive in the southwest quadrant is the University Center, which encloses Doak Campbell Stadium and Bobby Bowden Field. The stadium seats 79,560 spectators.{{Cite web |title=Bobby Bowden Field at Doak S. Campbell Stadium – Facilities |url=https://seminoles.com/facilities/bobby-bowden-field-at-doak-s.-campbell-stadium/1 |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=Florida State University |language=en}} Doak Campbell Stadium is contained within the brick facade walls of the University Center. It is reportedly the largest continuous brick structure in the United States and one of the largest in the world.{{cite news |last1=Brockman |first1=Jack |title=The infrastructure of sports at Florida State |url=https://www.fsunews.com/story/sports/2021/09/30/history-behind-florida-states-athletic-stadiums/5864886001/ |access-date=June 19, 2023 |work=FSU News.com |date=September 30, 2021}} The brick complex also houses offices of the university, the registrar,{{Cite web |date=March 18, 2024 |title=University Registrar |url=https://registrar.fsu.edu/do-not-delete |access-date=July 21, 2024 |website=University Registrar |language=en}} the Dedman School of Hospitality,{{Cite web |title=About the College {{!}} Dedman College of Hospitality |url=https://dedman.fsu.edu/about-college |access-date=July 21, 2024 |website=dedman.fsu.edu}} and classrooms.

The FSU Southwest Campus was acquired by the university in 1930 and was formerly known as "The Farm".{{Cite web |date=June 2, 2011 |title=Master Plan - Southwest Campus (2008 Update, revised June 2, 2011) |url=https://www.facilities.fsu.edu/depts/planningMan/Documents/MP_docs/SD/SouthwestCampusOverview.pdf |access-date=August 1, 2024 |website=Florida State University - Facilities}} It encompasses another {{convert|740|acre|km2|1}} of land off Orange Drive.{{Cite web |title=Florida State University Campus Master Plan – 2020 Update Tallahassee Campus Southwest Overview |url=https://www.facilities.fsu.edu/depts/planningMan/Documents/MP_docs/GOP/2020/GOP%2000-4%20SWC%20OVERVIEW%202020.pdf |access-date=July 20, 2024 |website=FSU Facilities}} The southwest campus currently houses the Florida A&M University – Florida State University College of Engineering, which is housed in a two-building joint facility with Florida A&M University. In addition to the College of Engineering, The Don Veller Seminole Golf Course and Club are located here and at the Morcom Aquatics Center. The FSU Research Foundation buildings, as well as the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, are located on the Southwest Campus in Innovation Park.

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Florida State University Panama City is located approximately {{convert|100|mi|km|-1}} from the main campus. The campus began operations in 1967, and FSU assumed control in July 1982.{{Cite web |date=2023–2024 |title=Panama City Campus Student Headcount Enrollment, Fall Semesters |url=https://ir.fsu.edu/Factbooks/2023-24/Panama_City.pdf |access-date=July 21, 2024 |website=Florida State University – Office of Institutional Research}} The Bay County Commission donated a 26-acre waterfront site for a new campus, which was completed in 1987. In Fall, 2023 the campus had over 1200 students engaged in undergraduate and graduate degree programs.{{Cite web |title=Office of Institutional Research – Florida State University |url=https://ir.fsu.edu/enrollment.aspx |access-date=July 11, 2024 |website=ir.fsu.edu}}{{Cite web |title=About Us {{!}} FSU Panama City |url=https://pc.fsu.edu/about-us |access-date=July 11, 2024 |website=pc.fsu.edu}} The satellite institution currently has a ratio of 20 students to each faculty member.{{Cite web |title=Military students {{!}} FSU Panama City |url=https://pc.fsu.edu/military |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=pc.fsu.edu}}

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The College of Medicine has six regional campuses{{Cite web |title=Regional Campus Locations {{!}} College of Medicine |url=https://med.fsu.edu/home/regionalMap |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=med.fsu.edu}} located in Daytona Beach,{{Cite web |title=Daytona Beach Regional – Home {{!}} College of Medicine |url=https://med.fsu.edu/daytona/home |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=med.fsu.edu}} Fort Pierce, Orlando,{{Cite web |title=Orlando Campus – Home {{!}} College of Medicine |url=https://med.fsu.edu/orlando/home |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=med.fsu.edu}} Pensacola,{{Cite web |title=Pensacola Campus – Home {{!}} College of Medicine |url=https://med.fsu.edu/pensacola/home |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=med.fsu.edu}} Sarasota{{Cite web |title=Sarasota Campus – Home {{!}} College of Medicine |url=https://med.fsu.edu/sarasota/home |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=med.fsu.edu}} and Tallahassee.{{Cite web |title=Tallahassee Regional Medical School Campus / Home {{!}} College of Medicine |url=https://med.fsu.edu/tallahassee/home |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=med.fsu.edu}} Three rural based medical training facilities are located in Marianna, Immokalee and Thomasville, Georgia.{{cite web |title=Community-Based |url=https://med.fsu.edu/home/communityBased |website=med.fsu.edu |publisher=Florida State University |access-date=29 January 2025}}

Florida State has campuses in London, Florence, Panama City, Panama and Valencia, Spain.{{Cite web |title=Florida State University – Campuses |url=https://www.fsu.edu/academics/campuses.html |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=www.fsu.edu |language=en-US}} These campuses are a part of the year-round international programs.

{{See also|List of Presidents of Florida State University}}

Florida State University is divided into 17 colleges and over 110 centers, facilities, labs, and institutes offering 277 degree programs.{{Cite web |title=Florida State University - Degree Offerings and Academic Programs |url=https://www.fsu.edu/academics/degrees.html |access-date=July 13, 2024 |website=www.fsu.edu |language=en-US}}

As a part of the State University System of Florida,{{Cite web |title=Universities |url=https://www.flbog.edu/universities/ |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=State University System of Florida |language=en-US}} Florida State University falls under the purview of the seventeen member Florida Board of Governors.{{Cite web |date=March 27, 2024 |title=1.001 - University Board of Trustees Powers and Duties |url=https://www.flbog.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/FINAL-Regulation-1.001-3.27.24-Formatting-Update.pdf |access-date=July 27, 2024 |website=State University System of Florida - Active Regulations}}{{Cite web |title=Members |url=https://www.flbog.edu/board/members/ |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=State University System of Florida |language=en-US}} Guided by the Board of Governors, the thirteen member Board of trustees is "responsible for the administration of its university in a manner that is dedicated to, and consistent with the university’s mission which shall be otherwise consistent with the mission and purposes of the State University System as

defined by the Board of Governors".{{Cite web |title=Trustees |url=https://trustees.fsu.edu/trustees |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=Board of Trustees |language=en}} The president of the university answers to the Board of Trustees.{{Cite web |title=Section 2: Florida State University Administrative Structure {{!}} Faculty Handbook |url=https://facultyhandbook.fsu.edu/handbook-sections/section-2-florida-state-university-administrative-structure |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=facultyhandbook.fsu.edu}} The university executive staff{{Cite web |title=Cabinet |url=https://president.fsu.edu/staff/cabinet/ |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=Office of the President |language=en-US}} report to the president, with subordinate sections reporting through the staff.{{Cite web |title=University Organization Charts {{!}} Office of Human Resources |url=https://hr.fsu.edu/sections/compensation-services/university-organization-charts |access-date=July 18, 2024 |website=hr.fsu.edu}}

The Faculty Senate is the legislative body for the university and elected from member of the general faculty.{{Cite web |title=Faculty Senate |url=https://facsenate.fsu.edu/ |access-date=July 18, 2024 |website=facsenate.fsu.edu}} The Faculty Senate prepares academic policy and sets academic standards. Any action of the Faculty Senate is subject to the veto authority of the university president, which may be appealed to the university trustees by two-thirds Senate vote.{{Cite web |date=April 2, 2024 |title=The Constitution of the Florida State University |url=https://regulations.fsu.edu/sites/g/files/upcbnu486/files/regulations/adopted/FSU-Chapter-1.pdf |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=Florida State University – Regulations}}

The student government was established in 1935 and consists of executive, judicial, and legislative branches.{{Cite web |title=Student Government Association History |url=https://sga.fsu.edu/student-government/student-government-association-history |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=Student Government Association |language=en}} The student government executive branch is led by the student body president and includes the student body's vice president, treasurer, seven agencies, four bureaus, and an executive cabinet responsible for handling an agenda set out by the student body president.{{Cite web |title=Executive Branch |url=https://sga.fsu.edu/student-government/executive-branch |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=Student Government Association |language=en}} The legislative branch{{Cite web |title=Legislative Branch |url=https://sga.fsu.edu/student-government/legislative-branch |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=Student Government Association |language=en}} includes eighty senators, and the judicial branch consists of a chief justice and four associate justices, who must be in their second or third year of law school.{{Cite web |title=Supreme Court |url=https://sga.fsu.edu/student-government/judicial-branch/supreme-court |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=Student Government Association |language=en}}

Reforming male collegiate sports after the 42-year hiatus (1905–1947) when FSU was a women-only college, FSU students voted to use the name "Seminoles" as the university collective name and symbol.{{Cite web |last=Hagaman |first=Kristin |title=Research Guides: Florida State University & Our Relationship with the Seminole Tribe of Florida: Overview |url=https://guides.lib.fsu.edu/fsuandseminoles/overview |access-date=July 11, 2024 |website=guides.lib.fsu.edu |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Where does the Seminoles Nickname Come from in Florida State Football? |url=https://fanarch.com/blogs/fan-arch/where-does-the-seminoles-nickname-come-from-in-florida-state-football |access-date=July 11, 2024 |website=Fan Arch |date=January 6, 2024 |language=en}} The Seminole imagery in some university activities is by permission of the Tribal Council, the governing body of the Seminole Tribe of Florida.{{Cite web |date=November 25, 2024 |title=Constitution of the Seminole Tribe of Florida|url=https://nniconstitutions.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/2021-11/Seminole%20Tribe.pdf |access-date=November 25, 2024 |website=University of Arizona Native Nations Institute's Constitution Resource Center}} FSU's use of the Seminole imagery was granted an NCAA waiver in 2005, due to the coordination the Seminole Tribe of Florida has with Florida State.{{Cite web |title=USATODAY.com – NCAA allowing Florida State to use its Seminole mascot |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/college/2005-08-23-fsu-mascot-approved_x.htm |access-date=July 11, 2024 |website=usatoday30.usatoday.com}}{{Cite web |title=Seminole Presence on Campus |url=https://www.fsu.edu/seminole-tribe/presence.html |access-date=July 11, 2024 |website=www.fsu.edu |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=FSU & the Seminole Tribe of Florida |url=https://www.fsu.edu/seminole-tribe/ |access-date=July 11, 2024 |website=www.fsu.edu |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Why Florida State, Seminole Tribe stand behind the Seminoles nickname |url=https://www.tampabay.com/sports/seminoles/2020/07/10/why-florida-state-seminole-tribe-stand-behind-the-seminoles-nickname/ |access-date=July 11, 2024 |website=Tampa Bay Times |language=en}}{{cite magazine| title=The Florida State Seminoles: The Champions of Racist Mascots| magazine=The Nation| date=January 7, 2014| last=Zirin| first=Dave| url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/florida-state-seminoles-champions-racist-mascots/}}

{{as of|2024}} FSU's university-wide financial endowment was $785.2 million with total assets valued at $1.03 billion.{{Cite web |title=About the Foundation {{!}} FSU Foundation |url=https://foundation.fsu.edu/about |access-date=July 10, 2024 |website=foundation.fsu.edu}} The endowment helps provide scholarships to students, support teaching and research, and fund other specific purposes designated by donors.{{Cite web |title=Endowed Gifts {{!}} FSU Foundation |url=https://foundation.fsu.edu/more-ways-give/endowed-gifts |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=foundation.fsu.edu}}

In 2022 Florida State University was rated by Fitch, Moody's and S&P Global as having the highest credit rating of all universities in Florida.{{Cite web |last=Prentiss |first=Anna |date=October 5, 2022 |title=FSU again boasts highest credit rating of all Florida public universities |url=https://news.fsu.edu/news/university-news/2022/10/05/fsu-again-boasts-highest-credit-rating-of-all-florida-public-universities/ |access-date=July 10, 2024 |website=Florida State University News |language=en-US}} Moody's Ratings graded FSU debt at Aa1 and Aa2 in 2022. S&P Global Ratings rated the university AA+ overall in 2022. Fitch Ratings affirmed the FSU Issuer Default Rating at AA+ on February 14, 2022, with a stable outlook.{{Cite web |url=https://www.fitchratings.com/research/us-public-finance/fitch-affirms-florida-state-university-idr-aa-revs-at-aa-outlook-stable-14-02-2022 |title=Rating Action Commentary 14-02-2022 Fitch Affirms FSU Financial Assistance's (FL) Revenue Bond Ratings at 'A+'; Outlook Stable|access-date=July 26, 2022 |website=fitchratings.com}} Fitch's Analytical Conclusion states:

As a comprehensive flagship university, FSU has a statewide and even national draw for students and has considerable fundraising capabilities. The Stable Outlook reflects Fitch's expectation that the university will sustain adjusted cash flow margins, as defined in Fitch's criteria, in line with historical trends, and that balance sheet strength will be maintained and improve over time.

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Florida State University aspires to become a top ten public research university and AAU member.{{Cite web |date=August 4, 2023 |title=Strategic Plan 2023-2027 |url=https://strategicplan.fsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2023-2027-Strategic-Plan.pdf |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=Florida State University}} The university is the home of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory among other advanced research facilities. Other milestones at the university include the first ETA10-G/8 supercomputer and the development of the process to syntheisize the anti-cancer drug Taxol.[http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/super-users-view.html Ed-thelen.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070405111106/http://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/super-users-view.html |date=April 5, 2007 }} Jeff Bauer – A History of Supercomputing at Florida State University, 1991 Retrieved on April 30, 2007.{{Cite web |last=Patronis |first=Amy Farnum |date=December 11, 2018 |title=FSU creator of life-saving breast cancer drug elected to National Academy of Inventors |url=https://news.fsu.edu/news/science-technology/2018/12/11/fsu-creator-of-life-saving-breast-cancer-drug-elected-to-national-academy-of-inventors/ |access-date=July 18, 2024 |website=Florida State University News |language=en-US}}

Florida State University is divided into 17 colleges and schools including the Colleges of Applied Studies, Arts & Sciences, Business, Communication & Information, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Human Sciences, Law, Medicine, Motion Picture Arts, Music, Nursing, Social Sciences & Public Policy, and Social Work, plus the Graduate School, Dedman School of Hospitality, and the Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship.{{Cite web |title=Florida State University – Academic Departments and Programs |url=https://www.fsu.edu/academics/departments.html |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=www.fsu.edu |language=en-US}} Florida State offers 103 baccalaureate degree programs, 107 master's degree programs, an advanced masters/specialist degree in 6 areas, 63 doctorate degree programs, and 3 professional degree programs.{{Cite web |title=Florida State University – Degree Offerings |url=https://www.fsu.edu/academics/degrees.html |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=www.fsu.edu |language=en-US}} The most popular colleges by enrollment are Arts and Sciences, Business, Social Sciences, Education, and Human Science.{{Cite web |date=July 22, 2024 |title=Florida State University Academics |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/florida-state-university-1489/academics |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=U.S. News & World Report}}{{Cite web |title=Office of Institutional Research – Florida State University |url=https://ir.fsu.edu/facts.aspx |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=ir.fsu.edu}}

The Florida State University College of Medicine operates using diversified hospital and community-based clinical education medical training for medical students.{{Cite web |title=Community-Based {{!}} College of Medicine |url=https://med.fsu.edu/home/communityBased |access-date=July 13, 2024 |website=med.fsu.edu}} The students spend their first two years in academic medical courses on the FSU campus in Tallahassee.{{Cite web |title=Current Academic Programs Calendar {{!}} College of Medicine |url=https://med.fsu.edu/medicalEducation/academic-calendar |access-date=July 13, 2024 |website=med.fsu.edu}} They are then assigned to one of the regional medical school campuses for their third- and fourth-year clinical training.{{Cite web |title=Regional Campus Locations {{!}} College of Medicine |url=https://med.fsu.edu/home/regionalMap |access-date=July 13, 2024 |website=med.fsu.edu}} Rotations can be done at one of the six regional campuses in Daytona Beach, Fort Pierce, Orlando, Pensacola, Sarasota or in Tallahassee.{{Cite web |title=Florida State University College of Medicine {{!}} College of Medicine |url=https://med.fsu.edu/ |access-date=July 9, 2024 |website=med.fsu.edu}}

The average admitted student of the Fall 2023 entering freshmen class had a weighted GPA of 4.26. For the class, the 25th to 75th percentile standardized test score ranges were 1250 to 1380 for the SAT and 27 to 31 for the ACT.{{Cite web |title=Common Data Set |url=https://ir.fsu.edu/commondataset.aspx |publisher=Florida State University |access-date=February 12, 2023 }} The acceptance rate for admission in 2023 was 25.4% for 74,038 freshman applicants.

FSU's second-year, full-time freshman retention rate is 96% and a four-year graduation rate of 75%.{{Cite web |last=Patronis |first=Amy Farnum |date=September 15, 2023 |title=Florida State University achieving record levels of excellence |url=https://news.fsu.edu/news/university-news/2023/09/15/florida-state-university-achieving-record-levels-of-excellence/ |access-date=July 17, 2024 |website=Florida State University News |language=en-US}} The university has an 83.0% six-year graduation rate.{{Cite web |date=July 16, 2024 |title=Retention & Graduation Rates for Full-Time FTICs |url=https://www.ir.fsu.edu/Factbooks/2023-24/Retention_and_Graduation_rates_FTIC.pdf |access-date=July 16, 2024 |website=Florida State University – Office of Institutional Research – ir.fsu.edu}}

Florida State University students, numbering 43,701 in 2023, came from more than 130 countries, and all 50 U.S. states. The ratio of women to men is 58:42, and 24.2 percent are graduate and professional students.{{Cite web |date=July 15, 2024 |title=Florida State University – 2023–2024 – Pocket Fact Book |url=https://ir.fsu.edu/pocketfactbooks/2023-24%20Pocket%20Fact%20Book.pdf |access-date=July 15, 2024 |website=FSU Office of Institutional Research}}

Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Hillsborough, and Leon County make up the Florida counties with the greatest enrollment of in-state students. Students from Georgia, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Illinois make up the largest states for out-of-state students.

FSU hosts about 2500 international students.{{Cite web |title=International Student Enrollment Data {{!}} Center for Global Engagement |url=https://cge.fsu.edu/about-us/student-scholar-data |access-date=July 15, 2024 |website=cge.fsu.edu}} Around seventy-seven percent of the international students are graduate students and come from mainly China, India, South Korea, Panama, and Turkey.{{Cite web |title=International Students {{!}} FSU Global |url=https://global.fsu.edu/international-students |access-date=July 18, 2024 |website=global.fsu.edu}}

{{Infobox US university ranking

| Forbes = 67

| THE_WSJ = 173

| USNWR_NU = 55

| Wamo_NU = 73

| THES_W = 251–300

| QS_W = 448

| USNWR_W = 190

| ARWU_W = 201–300

}}

Florida State University is one of the two original state-designated "preeminent" universities in Florida.{{cite web|url=https://news.wfsu.org/post/fsu-uf-become-floridas-preeminent-universities|title=FSU, UF Become Florida's 'Preeminent' Universities|date=June 10, 2013|website=WFSU.org|access-date=December 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227181339/https://news.wfsu.org/post/fsu-uf-become-floridas-preeminent-universities|archive-date=December 27, 2019|url-status=live}} Florida State University receives the highest National Science Foundation research and development award in the state.{{cite web|url=https://nsf.gov/news/factsheets/florida_factsheet.pdf|title=State Fact Sheet – NSF & Florida|publisher=National Science Foundation|access-date=December 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227181328/https://nsf.gov/news/factsheets/florida_factsheet.pdf|archive-date=December 27, 2019|url-status=live}} Princeton Review's 2024 Best Value Colleges ranked FSU the top public university in Florida and sixteenth nationally.{{Cite web |last=Ralph |first=Jenny |date=July 10, 2024 |title=FSU named 'Best Value' public university in Florida, No. 16 in the nation by The Princeton Review |url=https://news.fsu.edu/news/university-news/2024/07/10/fsu-named-best-value-public-university-in-florida-no-16-in-the-nation-by-the-princeton-review/ |access-date=July 17, 2024 |website=Florida State University News |language=en-US}}

For 2022, U.S. News & World Report ranked Florida State University as the 19th best public university in the United States, and 55th overall among all national universities, public and private.{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/florida-state-university-1489/overall-rankings|title=Florida State University Rankings|magazine=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=October 6, 2020}} For 2019, the FSU College of Business was ranked 27th undergraduate program among all public universities and 44th among all national universities.{{cite web|url=https://news.fsu.edu/news/university-news/2018/09/10/florida-state-continues-meteoric-rise-in-national-rankings/|title=Florida State continues meteoric rise in national rankings|date=September 10, 2018|access-date=September 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180910151633/https://news.fsu.edu/news/university-news/2018/09/10/florida-state-continues-meteoric-rise-in-national-rankings/|archive-date=September 10, 2018|url-status=live}} In 2017, Florida State was ranked one of the most efficient universities.{{Cite web |last=Irby |first=Kara |date=December 11, 2017 |title=Florida State again one of the nation's most efficient universities |url=https://news.fsu.edu/news/university-news/2017/12/11/florida-state-one-nations-efficient-universities/ |access-date=July 17, 2024 |website=Florida State University News |language=en-US}}

Florida State is ranked the 16th best doctorate-granting university in the US for the highest amount of African American doctorate recipients by the National Science Foundation.{{cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2018/nsf18304/datatables/tab09.htm|title=Table 9 – NCSES Survey of Earned Doctorates: FY 2016 – US National Science Foundation (NSF)|website=nsf.gov|access-date=November 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004180013/https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2018/nsf18304/datatables/tab09.htm|archive-date=October 4, 2018|url-status=live}} Florida State is ranked the 29th top college in the United States by Payscale and CollegeNet's Social Mobility Index college rankings(2014).{{cite web| title = Social Mobility Index| website = Social Mobility Index| publisher = CollegeNet and PayScale| date = 2014| url = http://socialmobilityindex.org/| access-date = June 5, 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150524132827/http://www.socialmobilityindex.org/| archive-date = May 24, 2015| url-status = live}}

Florida State University's International Programs (FSU IP) is ranked 11th in the nation among university study abroad programs. Every year Florida State consistently sends over 2,379 students across the world to study in multiple locations.{{cite web|url=https://news.fsu.edu/news/2018/11/14/fsus-study-abroad-programs-continue-to-rise-in-international-education-rankings/|title=FSU's study-abroad programs continue to rise in international education rankings|date=November 14, 2018|access-date=November 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116173401/https://news.fsu.edu/news/2018/11/14/fsus-study-abroad-programs-continue-to-rise-in-international-education-rankings/|archive-date=November 16, 2018|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://international.fsu.edu/Default.aspx|title=International Programs – Home|author=Florida State University International Programs|access-date=May 4, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420095445/http://international.fsu.edu/Default.aspx|archive-date=April 20, 2016}}

Florida State has four permanent study centers providing residential and academic facilities in London; Florence, Italy; Valencia, Spain; and Panama City, Panama.{{cite web|url=http://international.fsu.edu/Students/StudyCenters.aspx|title=International Programs / FSU – International Programs|author=Florida State University International Programs|access-date=May 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420095144/http://www.international.fsu.edu/Students/StudyCenters.aspx|archive-date=April 20, 2016|url-status=dead}}

The FSU Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement (CARE) provides preparation, orientation, and academic support programming for first-generation college students who are disadvantaged by economical and educational circumstances.{{Cite web |title=About CARE {{!}} Center for Academic Retention & Enhancement |url=https://care.fsu.edu/about-care |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=care.fsu.edu}} CARE provides academic support services such as a dedicated tutoring and computer lab as well as advising and life coaching.{{Cite web |title=Student Support Services – S.C.O.P.E. {{!}} Center for Academic Retention & Enhancement |url=https://care.fsu.edu/college-programs/student-support-services-scope |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=care.fsu.edu}}

The Unconquered Scholars Program of CARE is for students who were previously homeless, wards of the state or in foster care.{{Cite web |title=Support the Unconquered Scholars Program {{!}} Center for Academic Retention & Enhancement |url=https://care.fsu.edu/USP/Support-USP |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=care.fsu.edu}} Transition programs in CARE work as a bridge into the university.{{Cite web |title=Transition Programs {{!}} Center for Academic Retention & Enhancement |url=https://care.fsu.edu/transition-programs |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=care.fsu.edu}}

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The Florida State University Libraries alone include more than 4 million titles and offers access to more than 1,064 databases and 120,000 electronic journals, including the statewide UBorrow system which includes over 15 million books from all 40 state university and college libraries.{{Cite web |title=Our Organization {{!}} University Libraries |url=https://www.lib.fsu.edu/about/organization |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=www.lib.fsu.edu}} In total, Florida State has fifteen libraries and millions of books and journals to choose from, including a strong statewide UBorrow system.{{Cite web |title=Interlibrary Loan and UBorrow {{!}} University Libraries |url=https://www.lib.fsu.edu/find-and-borrow/extended-borrowing |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=www.lib.fsu.edu}} Eight libraries are located on the main Tallahassee campus, with the other seven located all over the world.{{Cite web |title=Libraries Abroad {{!}} University Libraries |url=https://www.lib.fsu.edu/visit-and-study/libraries-abroad |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=www.lib.fsu.edu}} The collection covers virtually all disciplines and includes a wide array of formats – from books and journals to manuscripts, maps, and recorded music. Increasingly collections are digital and are accessible on the Internet via the library web page or the library catalog.{{Cite web |title=Off-Campus {{!}} University Libraries |url=https://www.lib.fsu.edu/help/off-campus |access-date=July 23, 2024 |website=www.lib.fsu.edu}}

The Robert M. Strozier Library is Florida State's main library. It is located in the historic central area of the campus adjacent to Landis Green. FSU has had a library since the 1880s, and the main library has been housed in several buildings.{{Cite web |last=Reguera |first=Kassandra |title=Research Guides: Florida State Heritage & University Archives: History of University Libraries |url=https://guides.lib.fsu.edu/c.php?g=353010&p=7695971 |access-date=July 13, 2024 |website=guides.lib.fsu.edu |language=en}}

The Paul A. M. Dirac Science Library, which opened in December of 1989,{{cite web|title=Remodelled Dirac Science Library Opened at FSU|url=http://grahamfarmelo.com/remodelled-dirac-science-library-formally-opened-at-fsu/|publisher=Graham Farmelo|access-date=19 February 2025|date=22 February 2015}} is the main science library for Florida State University and houses over 500,000 books.{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.fsu.edu/dirac-science-library|title=Dirac Science library|work=fsu.edu|access-date=February 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215213354/http://www.lib.fsu.edu/dirac-science-library|archive-date=February 15, 2015|url-status=live}} The library building is also home to the FSU School of Computational Science and Information Technology.{{cite web|title=The Paul A. M. Dirac Science Library|url=http://www.lib.fsu.edu/about/FSUlibraries/dirac/index.html|publisher=Florida State University|access-date=October 11, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110502152538/http://www.lib.fsu.edu/about/FSUlibraries/dirac/index.html|archive-date=May 2, 2011}} The library houses a collection of materials related to Dirac's work at FSU and Cambridge University.{{cite web|title=Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Collection|url=http://www.lib.fsu.edu/about/fsulibraries/dirac/collection.html|work=The FSU Library|publisher=Florida State University Libraries|access-date=August 16, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429193838/http://www.lib.fsu.edu/about/FSUlibraries/dirac/collection.html|archive-date=April 29, 2012}} These papers, donated by Dirac's wife from 1984-1997, include photographs, lecture notes, and personal belongings that were left in his office when he passed.{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Altman |first2=Burt |title=Paul A.M. Dirac Papers |url=https://archives.lib.fsu.edu/repositories/10/resources/1408 |website=Florida State University Special Collections & Archives |access-date=19 February 2025 }} There is a marble statue featuring Dirac located outside of the library.{{cite book |last=Farmelo |first=Graham |author-link=Graham Farmelo |year=2009 |title=The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius |location=London |publisher=Faber and Faber |isbn=978-0-571-22278-0}} [Published in the United States as The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom. {{isbn|978-0-465-01827-7}}.]

The Claude Pepper Center on campus is located in what was originally the Florida State College for Women Library, which served as studios for WFSU-TV in past years.{{Cite web |title=Special Collections & Archives: About the Claude Pepper Library {{!}} University Libraries |url=https://www.lib.fsu.edu/special-collections/claude-pepper/about |access-date=July 9, 2024 |website=www.lib.fsu.edu}} The center is also home to the Reuben O'Donovan Askew Papers.{{Cite web |title=Collection: Reubin Askew Papers {{!}} Archival Collections |url=https://archives.falsc.lyrtech.org/repositories/fsu_special_collections_and_archives/resources/reubin_askew_papers |access-date=July 9, 2024 |website=archives.falsc.lyrtech.org}}

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The Warren D. Allen Music Library is located in the Housewright Music Building in the Florida State University College of Music and contains scores, sound recordings (albums and CDs), video recordings, books, periodicals, microforms and streaming media.{{Cite web |date=April 28, 2022 |title=About the Library - Florida State University College of Music |url=https://music.fsu.edu/library/about-the-library/ |access-date=July 23, 2024 |website=music.fsu.edu |language=en-US}}

The Harold Goldstein Library{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://ischool.cci.fsu.edu/about/history/ |access-date=July 23, 2024 |website=School of Information |language=en-US}} was a library on the main campus that housed a collection relating to library and information science, information technology, and juvenile literature. In 2018, the Goldstein Library was replaced with the Innovation Hub, a technology hub, makerspace, and design-thinking center.{{Cite web|date=March 9, 2018|title=The future of learning: FSU opens new Innovation Hub|url=https://news.fsu.edu/news/university-news/2018/03/09/future-learning-fsu-opens-new-innovation-hub/|access-date=November 28, 2021|website=Florida State University News|language=en-US}} When the Goldstein Library closed, its collections were split among the main library, Strozier, while the IT materials were moved to Dirac.{{Cite web|date=January 17, 2021|title=Virtual Goldstein Library – Virtual Goldstein Library in the College of Communication & Information at Florida State University|url=https://goldstein.cci.fsu.edu/|access-date=November 28, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117181733/https://goldstein.cci.fsu.edu/|archive-date=January 17, 2021}}

File:Florida Supreme Court Justice Kenneth B. Bell.jpg{{Cite web |title=Florida Supreme Court |url=https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/Justices/Former-Justices/Justice-Kenneth-B.-Bell |access-date=July 23, 2024 |website=Supreme Court |language=en-US}} circa 2003]]

The Florida State University College of Law Research Center houses the official library of the Florida State University College of Law. Located in B. K. Roberts Hall, the library has digital holdings, amassed by the Florida Academic Law Libraries in cooperation with other state and private colleges and universities.{{Cite web |title=Digitized Legal Collections {{!}} College of Law |url=https://law.fsu.edu/research-center/digitized-legal-collections |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=law.fsu.edu}} The library also maintains subscriptions and access to 116 law-specific databases which can be accessed by students.{{Cite web |title=A-Z Databases |url=https://guides.law.fsu.edu/az.php |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=guides.law.fsu.edu}}

In addition to the libraries located on the Tallahassee campus, FSU has five other libraries, museums, and research centers. These include the FSU Panama City Florida Library and Learning Center, the FSU Panama, Republic of Panama Library, the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the FSU Florence, Italy Study Center, and the FSU London, England Study Center.

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The Ringling, the State Art Museum of Florida, is located in Sarasota, Florida and is administered by Florida State University.{{Cite web |title=Museum of Art |url=https://www.ringling.org/about-ringling/mission-and-history/#mission |access-date=July 23, 2024 |website=Ringling mission and history |language=en-US}} The museum opened in 1930. The institution offers twenty-one galleries of European paintings as well as Cypriot antiquities and Asian, American, and contemporary art. The museum's art collection currently consists of more than 10,000 objects that include a wide variety of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, and decorative arts from ancient through contemporary periods and from around the world. Celebrated items include eight Peter Paul Rubens paintings.{{Cite web |title=Peter Paul Rubens Online |url=http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/rubens_peter_paul.html |access-date=July 23, 2024 |website=www.artcyclopedia.com}} The Ringling Museum collections constitute one of the largest university museum complexes in the United States.{{cite web |url=http://www.ringling.org/ |title=John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art |access-date=May 2, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070421180818/http://www.ringling.org/ |archive-date=April 21, 2007 |url-status=live }} In 2014 the Ringling was selected as the second most popular attraction in Florida by the readers of USAToday Travel.{{cite web |url=http://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-florida-attraction |title=WINNERS: Best Florida Attraction – Chosen by readers of USA TODAY and 10Best |date=December 25, 2013 |access-date=January 25, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140129032001/http://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-florida-attraction/ |archive-date=January 29, 2014 |url-status=live }} Florida State University also maintains the FSU Museum of Fine Arts (MoFA) on the Tallahassee main campus.

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The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education ranks Florida State as a doctoral research institution which performs very high levels of research.{{Cite web |title=Carnegie Classifications |url=https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/carnegie-classification/ |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Florida State University |url=https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/institution/florida-state-university/ |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=DeLisa |first=Caden |date=2022-12-20 |title=Three Florida universities crack top 100 of National Science Foundation research rankings |url=https://thecapitolist.com/three-florida-universities-crack-top-100-of-national-science-foundation-research-rankings/ |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=The Capitolist |language=en-US}} Florida State presently rates second in the state of Florida as a public university by the Nature Index for research output.{{Cite web |title=Florida State University (FSU) |url=https://www.nature.com/nature-index/institution-outputs/United%20States%20of%20America%20(USA)/Florida%20State%20University%20(FSU)/5139073734d6b65e6a00223b |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=Nature Index |language=en}} The university engages in many areas of academic inquiry at the undergraduate,{{Cite web |title=Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement |url=https://cre.fsu.edu/ |access-date=July 23, 2024 |website=cre.fsu.edu}} graduate,{{Cite web |title=Graduate Studies {{!}} FSU Office of Research |url=https://www.research.fsu.edu/research-offices/materials-science-at-fsu/graduate-studies/ |access-date=July 23, 2024 |website=www.research.fsu.edu}} and postdoctoral levels.{{Cite web |title=Office of Postdoctoral Affairs {{!}} Office of Postdoctoral Affairs |url=https://opda.fsu.edu/ |access-date=July 23, 2024 |website=opda.fsu.edu}} Florida State University was awarded over $355 million in annual research expenditures in sponsored research in fiscal year 2022, ranking it 82nd out of 890 ranked. FSU receives the highest National Science Foundation funding in the state of Florida.{{Cite web |date=July 27, 2024 |title=Florida - FY 2023 Fast Facts |url=https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/florida_factsheet.pdf?VersionId=3W1rIwdH4.q5NS5Uf.SLKuVeaUC7CKgI |access-date=July 27, 2024 |website=U.S. National Science Foundation}}{{Cite web |title=Award Summary Information: By State /Institution |url=https://dellweb.bfa.nsf.gov/AwdLst2/default.asp |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=dellweb.bfa.nsf.gov}} Florida State currently has 37 degree programs in interdisciplinary research fields.{{Cite web |title=Interdisciplinary Studies {{!}} Academic Program Guide |url=https://academic-guide.fsu.edu/interdisciplinary-studies |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=academic-guide.fsu.edu}} Interdisciplinary programs merge academic disciplines into common areas where discoveries may be exploited by more than one method. Interdisciplinary research at FSU covers traditional subjects such as chemistry,{{Cite web |title=FSU {{!}} Academic Program Guide |url=http://undergrad1.its.fsu.edu/academic_guide/guide-display.php?program=materials-chemistry |access-date=July 27, 2024 |website=undergrad1.its.fsu.edu}} physics{{Cite web |title=Department of Physics - Florida State University |url=https://physics.fsu.edu/undergraduates/majors-minors-and-advising |access-date=July 27, 2024 |website=physics.fsu.edu |language=en}} and engineering to social sciences.{{Cite web |title=Interdisciplinary Studies {{!}} Academic Program Guide |url=https://academic-guide.fsu.edu/interdisciplinary-studies |access-date=July 27, 2024 |website=academic-guide.fsu.edu}}

{{See also|National High Magnetic Field Laboratory}}

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The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) or "Mag Lab" at Florida State develops and operates high magnetic field facilities that scientists use for research in physics, biology, bioengineering, chemistry, geochemistry, biochemistry, materials science, and engineering. It is a unique facility in the United States and one of only nine worldwide.{{Cite web |last=Kaufman |first=Jac |date=September 28, 2021 |title=Learn about the MagLab |url=https://news.fsu.edu/multimedia/video/2021/09/28/learn-about-the-maglab/ |access-date=July 17, 2024 |website=Florida State University News |language=en-US}} Significant records have been set at the Mag Lab to date.{{Cite web |title=World Records – MagLab |url=https://nationalmaglab.org/about-the-maglab/facts-figures/world-records/ |access-date=July 17, 2024 |website=nationalmaglab.org |language=en}} The Magnetic Field Laboratory is a 440,000 sq. ft (40,877 square meter) complex employing 715 faculty, staff, graduate, and postdoctoral students.{{Cite web |title=By the Numbers – MagLab |url=https://nationalmaglab.org/about-the-maglab/facts-figures/by-the-numbers/ |access-date=July 17, 2024 |website=nationalmaglab.org |language=en}} This facility is the largest and highest powered laboratory of its kind in the world.{{Cite web |title=About the MagLab – MagLab |url=https://nationalmaglab.org/about-the-maglab/ |access-date=July 9, 2024 |website=nationalmaglab.org |language=en}}

In 1990 the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Florida State University the right to host the new National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Rather than improve the existing Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory controlled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) together with a consortium of other universities, the NSF elected to move the Lab mainly to Florida State University, with a smaller facility at the University of Florida.{{cite web|url=https://nationalmaglab.org/about/facts-figures/by-the-numbers|title=National High Magnetic Field Laboratory – Media Center Fact Sheets – Records|access-date=May 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227050045/https://nationalmaglab.org/about/facts-figures/by-the-numbers|archive-date=February 27, 2015|url-status=live}} MIT contested the award in an unprecedented request to the National Science Board (NSB) for a review of the award, accusing NSF officials of manipulating facts, in that the NSB overruled a peer-reviewed process awarding the lab to MIT in favor of long-term State of Florida support for the facility and faculty.{{Cite journal |last=Hamilton |first=David P. |date=September 21, 1990 |title=Magnet Lab Decision Repels MIT: Stung by losing a major research award to Florida State University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology charges National Science Foundation officials with manipulating the facts |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.249.4975.1367 |journal=Science |language=en |volume=249 |issue=4975 |pages=1367–1368 |doi=10.1126/science.249.4975.1367 |pmid=17812150 |issn=0036-8075}} The NSB denied the appeal, and the NSF considered the matter closed.{{Cite news |title=Florida State Beats MIT for Magnet Lab |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1990/0820/agall.html |access-date=July 13, 2024 |work=Christian Science Monitor |issn=0882-7729}}

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The High Energy Physics program at Florida State was established in 1950 and collaborates with the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (also known as Fermilab), near Chicago, IL, and with CERN, the European Center of Nuclear Research located near Geneva, Switzerland.{{Cite web |title=Department of Physics – Florida State University |url=https://physics.fsu.edu/research/high-energy-experimental-physics |access-date=July 13, 2024 |website=physics.fsu.edu |language=en}} Current interests include the basic structure of matter.{{Cite web |title=FSU High Energy Physics Theory Group |url=http://www.hep.fsu.edu/theory.php |access-date=July 27, 2024 |website=www.hep.fsu.edu}}

The High-Performance Materials Institute (HPMI) is a multidisciplinary research institute investigating materials suitable for advanced applications including artificial limbs and space travel.{{Cite web |title=HPMI {{!}} High-Performance Materials Institute |url=https://hpmi.research.fsu.edu/ |access-date=July 13, 2024 |website=hpmi.research.fsu.edu}}

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FSU's Coastal and Marine Laboratory researches coastal and marine ecosystems, using the research vessel Apalachee.{{Cite web |title=About {{!}} Coastal and Marine Laboratory |url=https://marinelab.fsu.edu/about/ |access-date=July 13, 2024 |website=marinelab.fsu.edu}} The facility is located in St. Teresa, Florida (on the coast) and can house students and researchers for extended times.{{Cite web |title=Facilities {{!}} Coastal and Marine Laboratory |url=https://marinelab.fsu.edu/facilities/ |access-date=July 13, 2024 |website=marinelab.fsu.edu}}

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The Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University-FSU College of Engineering is a partnership between an HBCU, a public Research 1 University and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.{{Cite web |title=FAMU-FSU College of Engineering |url=https://eng.famu.fsu.edu/ |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=eng.famu.fsu.edu}} Students complete basic studies at their respective university, then complete requirements at the College of Engineering. The college has undergraduate and graduate degree programs in chemical, civil, computer, electrical, industrial, biomedical and mechanical engineering.{{Cite web |title=Florida State University College of Engineering |url=https://www.fsu.edu/engineering/ |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=www.fsu.edu |language=en-US}}

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The university's colors are garnet and gold. Florida State University's marching band is the Marching Chiefs.{{Cite web |title=Bands - Florida State University College of Music |url=https://music.fsu.edu/ensembles/bands/ |access-date=July 26, 2024 |website=music.fsu.edu |language=en-US}}

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The alma mater for Florida State University was composed by Charlie Carter in 1956.{{cite web|url=http://tallahasseescene.com/2014/11/hymn-garnet-gold-tradition-making/|title=The Hymn to the Garnet and Gold: A Tradition in the Making|work=TallahasseeScene|access-date=May 29, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017140700/http://tallahasseescene.com/2014/11/hymn-garnet-gold-tradition-making/|archive-date=October 17, 2015}}

The most popular songs of Florida State University include:

• Alma Mater – "High O'er Towering Pines"{{Cite web |title=FSU Song Lyrics |url=https://welcome.fsu.edu/resources/fsu-song-lyrics |access-date=2024-08-04 |website=Welcome FSU |language=en}}
• Hymn – "Hymn To the Garnet and the Gold"
• Fight Song – "FSU Fight Song"

{{Main|Florida State University student housing}}

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Florida State University is a traditional residential university wherein most students live on campus in university residence halls or nearby in privately owned residence halls, apartments and residences.{{Cite web |date=July 13, 2024 |title=Visitor Guide 2016 |url=https://admissions.fsu.edu/publications/visitorsguide/FSU_Visitor_Guide_2016.pdf |access-date=July 13, 2024 |website=Florida State University Admissions}}

Florida State University provides 6,387 undergraduate and graduate students with housing as well as Living–Learning Communities (LLC) on the main campus.{{Cite web |title=University Housing / Future Residents |url=https://housing.fsu.edu/future-residents/ |access-date=July 13, 2024 |website=housing.fsu.edu}}{{Cite web |title=University Housing / Florida State University |url=https://housing.fsu.edu/ |access-date=July 13, 2024 |website=housing.fsu.edu}} The university now offers video tours and other remote access information.{{Cite web |title=Main Index |url=https://visit.fsu.edu/main-index |access-date=July 13, 2024 |website=The Visitor Center |language=en}}

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Florida State University has more than 650 Recognized Student Organizations (RSOs) for students to join.{{Cite web |title=Office of Student Organizations & Involvement |url=https://soi.fsu.edu/ |access-date=2024-07-30 |website=soi.fsu.edu}} They range from athletic, cultural and musical to philanthropy, including Phi Beta Kappa, AcaBelles,{{Cite web |date=July 13, 2024 |title=Acabelles |url=https://nolecentral.dsa.fsu.edu/organization/acabelles |access-date=July 13, 2024 |website=Acabelles}} Garnet and Gold Scholar Society,{{Cite web |title=Garnet & Gold Scholar Society |url=https://garnetandgoldscholar.fsu.edu/ |access-date=July 13, 2024 |website=garnetandgoldscholar.fsu.edu}} Marching Chiefs,{{Cite web |date=July 13, 2024 |title=Marching Chiefs |url=https://fsuchiefs.com/ |access-date=July 13, 2024 |website=FSU Chiefs}} Garnet Girls Competitive Cheerleading,{{Cite web |title=Cheerleading Club |url=https://campusrec.fsu.edu/activities/club-cheerleading/ |access-date=July 13, 2024 |website=FSU Campus Recreation |language=en-US}} FSU Pow Wow, FSU Majorettes, Hillel at FSU,{{Cite web |title=Hillel at FSU |url=https://hillelatfsu.org/ |access-date=July 13, 2024 |website=hillelatfsu.org |language=en-US}} FSU Student Foundation,{{Cite web |title=Student Foundation |url=https://studentfoundation.fsu.edu/ |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=studentfoundation.fsu.edu}} InternatioNole,{{Cite web |last=Patronis |first=Amy Farnum |date=February 20, 2017 |title=InternatioNole: FSU Faculty Conduct Research Around the World |url=https://news.fsu.edu/news/university-news/2017/02/20/internationole-fsu-faculty-conduct-research-around-the-world/ |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=Florida State University News |language=en-US}} Student Alumni Association,{{Cite web |date=April 5, 2017 |title=SAA Home |url=https://alumni.fsu.edu/saa-home |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=FSU Alumni Association |language=en}} Hispanic/Latino Student Union,{{Cite web |title=Hispanic/Latinx Student Union |url=https://sai.fsu.edu/hlsu |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=Office of Student Agencies and Institutes |language=en}} Relay For Life, The Big Event at FSU, Por Colombia, and the Men's Soccer Club. All organizations are funded through the SGA and many put on events throughout the year. Students may create their own RSO if the current interest or concern is not addressed by the previously established entities.{{Cite web |title=Register a Student Organization {{!}} Office of Student Organizations & Involvement |url=https://soi.fsu.edu/registered-student-organizations/register-student-organization |access-date=2024-07-30 |website=soi.fsu.edu}}

The Bobby E. Leach Student Recreation Center has three regulation-size basketball courts on the upper level with the third court being designated for other sports such as volleyball, table tennis, and badminton.{{Cite web |last=DiDonato |first=Kari |title=Leach Center & FMC |url=https://campusrec.fsu.edu/fitness/fitness-facilities/ |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=FSU Campus Recreation |language=en-US}} The Leach Center is membership access available to FSU students, staff and alumni.{{Cite web |title=Leach Memberships |url=https://campusrec.fsu.edu/memberships/ |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=FSU Campus Recreation |language=en-US}}

The Florida State University intramural sports program is designed to encourage fitness and wellness in students.{{Cite web |title=FSU Intramural Sports Mission |url=https://campusrec.fsu.edu/mission/ |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=FSU Campus Recreation |language=en-US}} Sports clubs include equestrian{{Cite web |title=FSU Equestrian Club |url=https://campusrec.fsu.edu/activities/club-equestrian/ |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=FSU Campus Recreation |language=en-US}} and sailing.{{Cite web |title= FSU Sailing Club |url=https://campusrec.fsu.edu/activities/club-sailing/ |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=FSU Campus Recreation |language=en-US}} The clubs compete against other intercollegiate club teams around the United States. Intramural sports include flag football, basketball, recreational soccer, volleyball, sand volleyball, softball, swimming, kickball, mini golf, team bowling, tennis, ultimate frisbee, wiffle ball, dodge ball, battleship, college pick em, innertube water polo, kan jam, spikeball, and wallyball.{{Cite web |title=FSU Intramural Sports |url=https://campusrec.fsu.edu/sports/im/ |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=FSU Campus Recreation |language=en-US}}

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Student life at Florida State is often centered around the FSU Student Union, located on the North side of campus. A student activities facility first opened at the Rowena Longmire Student-Alumnae building in 1940.{{Cite web |title=History of the FSU Student Union Complex |url=https://union.fsu.edu/about-us/history |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=FSU Student Union |language=en}} The Student Union offers over 223,000 square feet of space for dining, activities and entertainment.{{Cite web |title=FSU Student Union |url=https://union.fsu.edu/ |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=FSU Student Union |language=en}}

The Askew Student Life Center is home to the Student Life Cinema, a large movie theater run primarily by the student body.{{Cite web |title=Askew Student Life Center |url=https://union.fsu.edu/movies |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=FSU Student Union |language=en}} Films are free for students and generally fall into one of four categories: midnights, classics, new releases, and co-sponsorships. Students can attend weekly meetings where upcoming films are selected by students. FSU alumni, staff and the public may view movies for a nominal fee.{{Cite web |title=Cinema |url=https://union.fsu.edu/movies/cinema |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=FSU Student Union |language=en}}

The Lakefront Park & Retreat Center Reservation is a {{convert|73|acre|m2|adj=on}} lakeside recreational area located off campus on Lake Bradford in Tallahassee.{{Cite web |last=DiDonato |first=Kari |title=FSU Lakefront Park |url=https://campusrec.fsu.edu/outdoors/lake/ |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=FSU Campus Recreation |language=en-US}} This university facility (later called Camp Flastacowo) was founded in 1920 as a retreat for students when FSU was the state college for women between 1905 and 1947.{{Cite web |last=Reguera |first=Kassandra |title=Research Guides: Florida State Heritage & University Archives: Camp Flastacowo |url=https://guides.lib.fsu.edu/HeritageUniversityArchives/UniversityTraditions/CampFlastacowo |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=guides.lib.fsu.edu |language=en}}

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The FSU Flying High Circus is one of two collegiate schools in the country that has a circus.{{Cite web |title=The FSU Flying High Circus |url=https://circus.fsu.edu/ |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=circus.fsu.edu}} Participants audition for roles and must be enrolled degree-seeking students of the university.{{Cite web |title=About Us {{!}} The FSU Flying High Circus |url=https://circus.fsu.edu/about-us |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=circus.fsu.edu}}

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About 17% of undergraduate men are in a fraternity and 23% of undergraduate women are in a sorority.{{Cite web |date=July 22, 2024 |title=Florida State University Student Life |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/florida-state-university-1489/student-life |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=U.S. News & World Report}} The Office of Greek Life at Florida State University encompasses the Interfraternity Council (IFC), Panhellenic Council (NPC), Multicultural Greek Council (MGC), and the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC).{{Cite web |title=Fraternity and Sorority Life |url=https://fsl.fsu.edu/ |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=fsl.fsu.edu}}

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Florida State University's Reserve Officer Training Corps is the military officer training and commissioning program at Florida State University.{{Cite web |title=What is Army ROTC? {{!}} Army ROTC |url=https://armyrotc.fsu.edu/what-army-rotc |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=armyrotc.fsu.edu}} Dating back to Civil War days, the Army ROTC unit at Florida State University is one of four collegiate military units with permission to display a battle streamer, in recognition of the military service of student cadets during the Battle of Natural Bridge in 1865. The Reserve Officer Training Corps offers commissions for the United States Army. The Reserve Officer Training Corps at Florida State is located at the Harpe-Johnson Building.{{Cite web |title=FSU Department of Military Science {{!}} Army ROTC |url=https://armyrotc.fsu.edu/ |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=armyrotc.fsu.edu}} The Reserve Officer Training Corps at Florida State University offers training in the military sciences to students who desire to perform military service after they graduate. The Departments of the Army maintains a Reserve Officers Training Corps and has a full staff of active duty military personnel serving as instructor cadre or administrative support staff.{{Cite web |title=CADRE and STAFF {{!}} Army ROTC |url=https://armyrotc.fsu.edu/cadre |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=armyrotc.fsu.edu}}

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The FSU campus is served by eight bus routes of the Seminole Express Bus Service.{{Cite web |title=Bus Services {{!}} Transportation & Parking Services |url=https://transportation.fsu.edu/bus |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=transportation.fsu.edu}} FSU also provides other campus services, including Spirit Shuttle (during football games),{{Cite web |title=Spirit Express Shuttle {{!}} Doak S. Campbell Stadium {{!}} Tallahassee, Florida |url=https://www.tallahasseestadium.com/spirit-express-shuttle/ |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=www.tallahasseestadium.com |language=en-US}} Nole Cab,{{Cite web |title=NOLE Cab – |url=https://tallahasseeyellowcab.com/our-services/nole-cab/ |access-date=July 22, 2024 |language=en}} S.A.F.E. Connection,{{Cite web |title=Services & Resources {{!}} Florida State University Police Department |url=https://police.fsu.edu/services-resources |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=police.fsu.edu}} and Night Nole{{Cite web |title=FSU Seminole Express Routes - City of Tallahassee StarMetro |url=https://www.talgov.com/starmetro/starmetro-routes-se |access-date=July 22, 2024 |website=StarMetro Routes - City of Tallahassee |language=en-US}} nighttime service.

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WFSU Public Media is affiliated with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), and FSU holds licenses.{{Cite web |last=Media |first=WFSU Public |title=About WFSU Public Media and Our Mission |url=https://wfsu.org/about/ |access-date=July 16, 2024 |website=WFSU Public Media's Mission |language=en}} FSU operates two television stations, WFSU and WFSG-TV, and four FM-broadcast radio stations, WFSU-FM, WFSQ-FM, WFSW-FM and WFSL-FM including repeater broadcast stations in Apalachicola, Marianna, and Port St. Joe. WFSU Public Media also has cable and streaming delivery of the broadcast content.{{Cite web |last=Media |first=WFSU Public |title=WFSU Television: Stream and Learn More About WFSU Programming |url=https://wfsu.org/television/ |access-date=July 27, 2024 |website=Television Home {{!}} WFSU Public Media |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Media |first=WFSU Public |title=Available Streams and How to Watch {{!}} WFSU Public Media |url=https://wfsu.org/television/streams/ |access-date=July 27, 2024 |website=Available Streams and How to Watch {{!}} WFSU Public Media |language=en}}

FSU operates a fifth radio station, WVFS (V89, "The Voice," or "The Voice of Florida State"), as an on-campus instructional radio station affiliated with the FSU Student Government Association as well as the FSU College of Communication and Information and staffed by student and community volunteers.{{Cite web |date=July 16, 2024 |title=WVFS – About – The Basics |url=https://wvfs.fsu.edu/about/basics/ |access-date=July 16, 2024 |website=WVFS Tallahassee {{!}} Defeating Evil Since 1987}} WVFS broadcasts diverse and spontaneous music as an alternative to commercial radio.{{Cite web |date=July 16, 2024 |title=WVFS – About – Mission and Philosophy |url=https://wvfs.fsu.edu/about/missionphilosophy/ |access-date=July 16, 2024 |website=WVFS Tallahassee {{!}} Defeating Evil Since 1987}}

The campus newspaper, the FSView & Florida Flambeau, publishes weekly during the summer and semiweekly on Mondays and Thursdays during the school year following the academic calendar.{{Cite web |title=FSView & Florida Flambeau: FSUnews and sports coverage |url=https://www.fsunews.com/ |access-date=July 16, 2024 |website=FSView |language=en-US}} The FSView & Florida Flambeau is owned by Gannett Co, Inc.{{Cite web |last=Fu |first=Angela |date=January 25, 2023 |title=Gannett owns a student paper. It also experienced cuts. |url=https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2023/gannett-cuts-fsview-florida-flambeau-tallahassee-student-newspaper/ |access-date=July 17, 2024 |website=Poynter |language=en-US}}

The English Department publishes a literary journal, The Southeast Review, founded in 1979 as Sundog.{{Cite web |title=Southeast Review |url=https://www.southeastreview.org/ |access-date=July 16, 2024 |website=thesoutheastreview |language=en}}

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The school's athletic teams are called the Seminoles, derived from the Seminole people. The name was chosen by students in 1947 and is officially sanctioned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida.{{Cite web |title=Top Things to Know |url=https://www.fsu.edu/seminole-tribe/know.html |access-date=July 23, 2024 |website=www.fsu.edu |language=en-US}} The NCAA granted FSU permission to use the name Seminoles due to the coordination and blessing of the Seminole Tribe of Florida{{Cite web |last=Kallestad |first=Brent AP |title=NCAA reverses, says FSU can use Seminoles name |url=https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2005/08/24/ncaa-reverses-says-fsu-can-use-seminoles-name/28859395007/ |access-date=July 23, 2024 |website=Sarasota Herald-Tribune |language=en-US}}

Florida State's athletes participate in the NCAA's Division I (Bowl Subdivision for football) and in the Atlantic Coast Conference.{{Cite web |title=Florida State University {{!}} NCAA.com |url=https://www.ncaa.com/schools/florida-st |access-date=July 16, 2024 |website=www.ncaa.com |language=en}}

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Florida State University is known for its competitive athletics in both men's and women's sports competitions.{{Cite web |date=June 26, 2024 |title=Florida State Places 12th In Final Learfield Directors' Cup Standings |url=https://www.si.com/college/fsu/florida-state-seminoles-college-football/florida-state-places-12th-in-final-learfield-directors-cup-standings-2024 |access-date=July 23, 2024 |website=FSU Seminoles On SI |language=en-US}} The men's program consists of 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. FSU's Intercollegiate Club sports include bowling, crew, rugby, soccer and lacrosse.{{Cite news | first=Wayne | last=McGahee III | title=Financial pain | url=https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/fsu/football/2020/07/29/financial-fallout-no-football-season-would-significant-fsu/5516179002/| newspaper=Florida Today | location=Melbourne, Florida| pages= 1B | date=August 2, 2020 | access-date=August 9, 2020}}

There are two major stadiums and an arena in or around FSU's main campus: Doak Campbell Stadium for football, Dick Howser Stadium for men's baseball, and the Donald L. Tucker Center for men's and women's basketball. The Mike Long Track is the home of the national champion men's outdoor track and field team.{{cite web |url=http://www.fsu.edu/news/2007/06/19/track.honored/ |title=Track & field team honored at White House |website=FSU News |date=June 19, 2007 |access-date=December 31, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080502214433/http://fsu.edu/news/2007/06/19/track.honored/ |archive-date=May 2, 2008 |url-status=live }} H. Donald Loucks courts at the Speicher Tennis Center is the home of the FSU tennis team. By presidential directive the complex was named in honor of Lieutenant Commander Michael Scott Speicher, a graduate of Florida State University and the first American casualty during Operation Desert Storm.{{cite web |url=http://www.ksvet.net/miapow/pow.htm |title=Veterans of Modern Warfare Kansas Chapter KCK # 10 (website) |access-date=December 31, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204121401/http://www.ksvet.net/miapow/pow.htm |archive-date=December 4, 2008 }}{{cite web |url=http://seminoles.cstv.com/facilities/fsu-trads-fac-speicher.html |title=Seminoles.Com (Official Athletic Site of Florida State University) – Scott Speicher Tennis Center |access-date=December 31, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071229083944/http://seminoles.cstv.com/facilities/fsu-trads-fac-speicher.html |archive-date=December 29, 2007 |url-status=dead }} The Seminole Soccer Complex is home to women's soccer.{{Cite web |title=Seminole Soccer Complex - Facilities |url=https://seminoles.com/facilities/seminole-soccer-complex/6 |access-date=July 24, 2024 |website=Florida State University |language=en}} The home record is 4,582 for the 2006 game versus the University of Florida.{{cite web | url=http://soccerfla.com/2006/20060908-4.htm | website=soccerFLA.com | date=September 8, 2006 | title=Florida Soccer Drops 1–0 Decision at No. 2 FSU in Front of Record Crowd | access-date=January 1, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061216153927/http://soccerfla.com/2006/20060908-4.htm | archive-date=December 16, 2006 | url-status=live }} The FSU women's softball team plays at the Seminole Softball Complex; the field is named for JoAnne Graf.{{Cite web |title=Seminole Softball Complex - Facilities |url=https://seminoles.com/facilities/seminole-softball-complex/7 |access-date=July 24, 2024 |website=Florida State University |language=en}}

[[Luis Alicea{{Cite web |title=Luis Alicea - Baseball Stats - The Baseball Cube |url=https://www.thebaseballcube.com/content/player/1309/ |access-date=2024-08-04 |website=TheBaseballCube.com |language=en}} salutes the crowd (1986)|left|thumb]]

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Seminole baseball is one of the most successful collegiate baseball programs in the United States having been to 20 College World Series', and having appeared in the national championship final on three occasions.{{Cite web |last=Kassim |first=Ehsan |title=Has FSU baseball ever won the College World Series? Seminoles history in NCAA Baseball Tournament |url=https://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/fsu/baseball/2024/06/14/florida-state-baseball-ever-made-cws-seminoles-history-ncaa-tournament/74048437007/ |access-date=July 24, 2024 |website=Tallahassee Democrat |language=en-US}} As of 2024, the Seminoles had the third-most college world series appearances.

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The Florida State Seminoles football program has played in 49 bowl games, won three consensus national championships, sixteen Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) championships, six ACC division titles, produced 218 All-Americans, 47 National Football League (NFL) first-round draft choices, and three Heisman Trophy winners.{{Cite web |title=Florida State Seminoles College Football History, Stats, Records |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/florida-state/index.html |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=College Football at Sports-Reference.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Florida St. Players/Alumni |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/schools/floridast/index.htm |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}} The Seminoles have achieved three undefeated seasons and finished ranked in the top five of the AP Poll for 14 straight years from 1987 through 2000.{{Cite web |title=Football {{!}} College Poll Archive |url=https://www.collegepollarchive.com/football/index.cfm |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=www.collegepollarchive.com}}

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The Seminoles' home field is Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium, which has a capacity of 79,560.{{Cite web |title=Bobby Bowden Field at Doak S. Campbell Stadium - Facilities |url=https://seminoles.com/facilities/bobby-bowden-field-at-doak-s.-campbell-stadium/1 |access-date=July 24, 2024 |website=Florida State University |language=en}}

Florida State University fielded its first official varsity football team in the fall of 1902 until 1904, which were then known as "The Eleven".{{cite web |url=http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/general/n044028.jpg |title=State Library and Archives of Florida – Florida Photographic Collection, West Florida Seminary Football Team at College Hall, published 1899 |access-date=April 29, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614073835/http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/general/n044028.jpg |archive-date=June 14, 2007 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://nolefan.org/ffsuexhibition.html |title=FSU Football – Pre 1947 teams |access-date=April 23, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612074327/http://nolefan.org/ffsuexhibition.html |archive-date=June 12, 2011 |url-status=live }} The team went (7–6–1) over the 1902–1904 seasons posting a record of (3–1) against their rivals from the Florida Agricultural College in Lake City. In 1904 the Florida State football team became the first ever state champions of Florida after beating both the Florida Agricultural College and Stetson University.

Under head coach Bobby Bowden, the Seminole football team became one of the nation's most competitive college football teams.{{cite web|url=http://seminoles.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/bowden_bobby01.html |website=Seminoles.com |title=Profile: Bobby Bowden |access-date=June 30, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703111234/http://seminoles.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/bowden_bobby01.html |archive-date=July 3, 2007 }} The Seminoles played in five national championship games between 1993 and 2001 and won the championship in 1993 and 1999. The FSU football team was the most successful team in college football during the 1990s, boasting an 88% winning percentage.{{Cite web |date=December 22, 2012 |title=Schlabach: The case for FSU's dynasty |url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/bowls12/story/_/id/8772406/if-florida-state-1990s-dynasty-college-football |access-date=July 19, 2024 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}} Bobby Bowden would retire with the record for most all-time career wins in Division I football.{{cite web|url=http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/19638175/paterno-loses-111-wins-in-ncaa-sanctions-bowden-becomes-new-wins-leader|title=Paterno loses 111 wins in NCAA sanctions, Bowden becomes new wins leader|access-date=July 23, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130407210504/http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/19638175/paterno-loses-111-wins-in-ncaa-sanctions-bowden-becomes-new-wins-leader|archive-date=April 7, 2013}} The 2013 Seminoles football team next won a national championship in 2013 under Jimbo Fisher.{{Cite web |last=Kostidakis |first=Perry |date=December 28, 2023 |title=One of the best to ever do it: 2013 FSU stats, records, roster, season summary |url=https://www.tomahawknation.com/florida-state-football-fsu-seminoles-college-cfb-acc-norvell-team-roster-schedule-game/2023/12/28/24017088/2013-schedule-all-time-ncaa-acc-player-nfl-championship-bcs-stats-records-roster-season-summary |access-date=July 24, 2024 |website=Tomahawk Nation |language=en}}

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The FSU men's Track & Field team won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship four times running, in addition to winning the NCAA National Championship three consecutive years.{{cite web |url=http://www.theacc.com/this-is/accchampionships07.html |title=theACC.com – The Official Website of the ACC – 2006–07 ACC Championships Sites and Dates |access-date=January 1, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012133928/http://www.theacc.com/this-is/accchampionships07.html |archive-date=October 12, 2007 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.theacc.com/this-is/accchampionships06.html |title=theACC.com – The Official Website of the ACC – 2005–06 ACC Championships Sites and Dates |access-date=January 1, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012133939/http://www.theacc.com/this-is/accchampionships06.html |archive-date=October 12, 2007 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.theacc.com/sports/c-track/recaps/042305aan.html |title=theACC.com – The Official Website of the ACC – 2004–05 ACC Championship Track & Field |access-date=January 1, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020230211/http://www.theacc.com/sports/c-track/recaps/042305aan.html |archive-date=October 20, 2007 }} In 2006 Head Coach Bob Braman and Associate Head Coach Harlis Meaders helped lead individual champions in the 200 m (Walter Dix), the triple jump (Raqeef Curry), and the shot put (Garrett Johnson). Individual runners-up were Walter Dix in the 100 m, Ricardo Chambers in the 400 m, and Tom Lancashire in the 1500 m. Others scoring points in the National Championship were Michael Ray Garvin in the 200 m (8th), Andrew Lemoncello in the 3000 m steeplechase (4th), Raqeef Curry in the long jump (6th), and Garrett Johnson in the discus (5th).{{cite web |url=http://fsu.edu/profiles/johnson/ |title=Florida State University, Student Profiles – Garrett Johnson |access-date=May 8, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070222064129/http://fsu.edu/profiles/johnson/ |archive-date=February 22, 2007 |url-status=dead }} In 2007, FSU won its second straight men's Track & Field NCAA National Championship when Dix became the first person to hold the individual title in the 100 m and 200 m.{{Cite web |date=June 26, 2011 |title=Dix wins 100-200 double at U.S. championships |url=https://www.espn.com/olympics/trackandfield/news/story?id=6706915 |access-date=July 24, 2024 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}}{{cite web|url=http://seminoles.cstv.com/sports/c-track/spec-rel/060907aae.html |website=Seminoles.com |title=Track & Field: FSU Wins Back-to-Back National Titles |access-date=June 9, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071113051259/http://seminoles.cstv.com/sports/c-track/spec-rel/060907aae.html |archive-date=November 13, 2007 }}

{{see also|List of Florida State University people#Notable faculty and staff}}

File:Portrait of FSU distinguished professor Dr. Anna Forbes Liddell - Tallahassee, Florida.jpg circa 1969]]

Florida State University currently employs 2,727 faculty members and over 3,920 staff. Florida State is represented by faculty serving in a number of renowned Academies, Voluntary Associations and Societies.{{Cite web |title=Faculty Honors & Awards |url=https://awards.faculty.fsu.edu/ |access-date=July 23, 2024 |website=awards.faculty.fsu.edu}} Florida State was home to the first ETA10-G/8 supercomputer.{{cite web |url=http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/super-users-view.html |first=Jeff |last=Bauer |title=A History of Supercomputing at Florida State University |year=1991 |access-date=April 30, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070405111106/http://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/super-users-view.html |archive-date=April 5, 2007 |url-status=live }} Professor E. Imre Friedmann and researcher Roseli Friedmann demonstrated primitive life could survive in rocks, establishing the potential for life on other planets.{{cite web|url=http://cmex.ihmc.us/ExtremeEnvironments/index.html|title=Hypolithic Algae at Johnson Canyon-Death Valley Sample Collection of March 5–7, 1997|access-date=July 10, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926224311/http://cmex.ihmc.us/ExtremeEnvironments/index.html|archive-date=September 26, 2007}}{{cite web|url=http://bio.fsu.edu/~friedm/|title=E. Imre Friedmann, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor and Director, Polar Desert Research Center |access-date=July 10, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070614215131/http://bio.fsu.edu/~friedm/ |archive-date = June 14, 2007}} Robert A. Holton, a professor of chemistry at Florida State, developed the first total synthesis of the anti-cancer drug paclitaxel, which had previously been obtainable only from the bark of the Pacific yew tree. Holton patented an improved process with an 80% yield.{{Cite web |last=Stephenson |first=Frank |date=July 15, 2024 |title=A Tale of Taxol |url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/6353501/a-tale-of-taxol-pdf-mds-research-foundation |access-date=July 15, 2024 |website=Yumpu |page=12}} Florida State University earned more than $351 million in royalties through its patent on Taxol.{{Cite web |date=July 10, 2023 |title=FSU wants to turn its research into local business ventures |url=https://news.wfsu.org/wfsu-local-news/2023-07-10/fsu-wants-to-turn-its-research-into-local-business-ventures |access-date=July 15, 2024 |website=WFSU News |language=en}} Holton was later elected to the National Academy of Inventors.{{Cite web |last=Patronis |first=Amy Farnum |date=December 11, 2018 |title=FSU creator of life-saving breast cancer drug elected to National Academy of Inventors |url=https://news.fsu.edu/news/science-technology/2018/12/11/fsu-creator-of-life-saving-breast-cancer-drug-elected-to-national-academy-of-inventors/ |access-date=July 14, 2024 |website=Florida State University News |language=en-US}}

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As of August 2023, Florida State University has over 400,000 alumni{{cite web |title=Florida State University celebrates a historic milestone: 400,000 alumni worldwide |url=https://news.fsu.edu/news/students-campus-life/2023/08/03/florida-state-university-celebrates-historic-milestone-400000-alumni-worldwide/#:~:text=Florida%20State%20University%20celebrates%20historic%20milestone%3A%20400%2C000%20alumni%20worldwide,-By%3A%20Janecia%20Britt&text=Florida%20State%20University's%20summer%20commencement,surpasses%20400%2C000%20living%20graduates%20worldwide. |website=news.fsu.edu | date=August 3, 2023 |publisher=Florida State University |access-date=August 9, 2023}} located in all fifty states and in many countries.{{Cite web |date=April 2021 |title=Residence of Alumni by State |url=https://ir.fsu.edu/Factbooks/2020-21/Alumni_State.pdf |access-date=July 15, 2024 |website=Florida State University – Office of Institutional Research – Fact Book}}{{Cite web |title=Alumni {{!}} College of Law |url=https://law.fsu.edu/alumni |access-date=July 15, 2024 |website=law.fsu.edu}} Approximately thirty percent are under the age of thirty-five.{{Cite web |date=December 9, 2021 |title=Annual Highlights |url=https://alumni.fsu.edu/annualhighlights |access-date=July 15, 2024 |website=FSU Alumni Association |language=en}} Notable Florida State alumni include NASA astronauts, U.S. Senators and Representatives, state governors, Rhodes Scholars, scientists, medical doctors, inventors, philanthropists, musicians, athletes, artists, accountants, military members, activists, first responders and many others.{{Cite web |date=August 11, 2021 |title=100 Notable Alumni of Florida State University [Sorted List] |url=https://edurank.org/uni/florida-state-university/alumni/ |access-date=July 16, 2024 |website=EduRank.org – Discover university rankings by location |language=en}}

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