Founded in 1956, the University of South Florida (USF) is a major public research university with status as a Preeminent Research University as designated by the Florida Board of Governors. USF is “One University: Geographically Distributed” comprised of three campuses: Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Sarasota-Manatee. All three campuses serve more than 48,000 students and house 13 colleges. The Patel College of Global Sustainability (PCGS) is the newest degree-granting college at USF. The mission of PCGS is achieving sustainable development, both locally and globally, by fostering social, economic and environmental sustainability. The University of South Florida is classified as Doctoral Universities: Very High Research Activity by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Collectively, USF has an annual economic impact of $6.02 billion statewide. It has an annual budget of $2 billion and its endowment is valued at $637 million. USF faculty are distinguished for their election as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), with 6 Fellows named in 2022 (placing USF among organizations worldwide with the highest numbers of Fellows elected annually), bringing USF’s total AAAS Fellows to ninety-four. The USF library holds over 2.8 million volumes and more than 115,000 serials. There are five libraries in total that are spread across the three campuses. All three campuses can enjoy the benefits of the Judy Genshaft Honors College. In 2023, USF became the first public university in Florida in nearly 40 years to be invited to join the Association of American Universities (AAU), a prestigious group of the leading universities in the United States and Canada.
Subject | Rank |
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Library & Information Science | 8 |
Law | 21 |
Transportation Science & Technology | 25 |
Hospitality & Tourism Management | 28 |
Oceanography | 51-75 |
Nursing | 51-75 |
Communication | 51-75 |
Education | 76-100 |
Undergraduate Programs |
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Accounting |
Advertising |
Africana Studies |
American Studies and Humanities |
Anthropology |
Applied Sciences |
Architecture |
Art Studio and Art History |
Athletic Training/Sports Medicine |
Biology & Microbiology |
Biomedical Science |
Chemical Engineering |
Chemistry |
Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Classics |
Communication |
Communication Sciences and Disorders |
Computer Science and Engineering |
Criminology |
Dance |
Dance Studies |
Early Childhood Education |
Economics |
Economics |
Electrical Engineering |
Elementary Education |
English |
Environmental Science and Policy |
Finance |
Foreign Languages |
General Business |
Geography |
Geology |
Gerontology |
Government and International Affairs |
History |
Hotel and Restaurant Management |
Industrial & Management Systems Engineering |
Information Technology |
Interdisciplinary Classical Civilizations |
Interdisciplinary Natural Science |
Interdisciplinary Social Sciences |
International Business |
International Studies |
Management |
Management Information Systems |
Marketing |
Mass Communications |
Mathematics |
Mechanical Engineering |
Medical Technology |
Microbiology and Biology |
Music |
Music Education |
Music Studies |
Nursing |
Philosophy |
Physical Education |
Physics |
Political Science |
Pre-Law |
Pre-Medical, Pre-Dental, & Pre-Veterinary |
Psychology |
Public Health |
Religious Studies |
Secondary Education |
Social Work |
Sociology |
Special Education |
Theatre |
Women's Studies |
Graduate Programs |
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Academic Role (Nursing) |
Accelerated Health Education (Public Health) |
Accountancy |
Acute Care Nursing (Nursing) |
Addictions and Substance Abuse Counseling (Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling (5 Year)) |
Addictions and Substance Abuse Counseling (Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling (Post Baccalaureate)) |
Adult Education |
Adult Education (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Adult Health Nursing (Nursing) |
Adult Health Nursing and Occupational Health Nursing (Nursing) |
Africana Studies (Liberal Arts) |
Aging and Neuroscience (Medical Sciences) |
American History (History) |
American Studies |
Analytical Chemistry (Chemistry) |
Anatomy (Medical Sciences) |
Ancient History (History) |
Applied Anthropology |
Applied Behavior Analysis |
Architecture |
Art |
Art History |
Athletic Training (Medical Sciences) |
Atmospheric Physics (Physics) |
Atomic and Molecular Physics (Physics) |
Audiology (Post Baccalaureate) |
Aural (Re)Habilitation (Post Baccalaureate) |
Autism Spectrum Disorders & Severe Intellectual Disabilities |
Behavioral Health (Public Health) |
Bio-Cultural Medical Anthropology (Applied Anthropology) |
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (Medical Sciences) |
Biochemistry (Chemistry) |
Bioethics and Medical Humanities |
Bioinformatics (Public Health) |
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology |
Biological Oceanography (Marine Science) |
Biology |
Biology (College Teaching) |
Biology (Science Education) |
Biomedical and Biotechnology (Chemical Engineering) |
Biomedical Engineering |
Biostatistics (Public Health) |
Biotechnology |
Business (College Teaching) |
Business Administration/MBA |
Career and Technical Education |
Career Counseling (Counselor Education) |
Cell Biology, Microbiology & Molecular Biology (Biology) |
Chamber Music (Music) |
Chemical Engineering |
Chemical Oceanography (Marine Science) |
Chemistry |
Chemistry (College Teaching) |
Chemistry (Non-Thesis Option) |
Chemistry (Science Education) |
Circuits, Controls and Systems (Electrical Engineering) |
Civil Engineering |
Classics: Latin/Greek |
Clinical and Translational Research (Medical Sciences) |
Clinical Mental Health Counseling (Counselor Education) |
Clinical Nurse Leader (Nursing) |
Clinical Psychology (Psychology) |
Cognition, Neuroscience & Social Psychology (Psychology) |
College Student Affairs (Curriculum and Instruction) |
College Teaching |
Communication |
Communications and Signal Processing (Electrical Engineering) |
Composition (Music) |
Computational Chemistry (Chemistry) |
Computer Engineering |
Computer Science |
Conducting (Music) |
Counselor Education |
Creative Writing |
Criminal Justice Administration |
Criminology |
Critical Care Nursing (Nursing) |
Cultural Resource Management (Applied Anthropology) |
Curriculum and Instruction |
Digital Architecture and Design (Electrical Engineering) |
Dramatic Writing |
Early Childhood (Elementary Education) |
Early Childhood Education |
Early Childhood Education (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Ecology and Evolution (Biology) |
Economic, Social and Planning Issues in the Urban Environment (Geography) |
Economics |
Educational Leadership |
Electric Power Systems (Electrical Engineering) |
Electrical Engineering |
Electro-Acoustic Music (Music) |
Elementary Curriculum (Elementary Education) |
Elementary Education |
Elementary Education (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Engineering (College Teaching) |
Engineering Management |
Engineering Management (Industrial Engineering) |
Engineering Science (5 Year Program) |
English |
English (College Teaching) |
English Education |
Entrepreneurship in Applied Technologies |
Environmental and Ecological Microbiology (Biology) |
Environmental Chemistry (Chemistry) |
Environmental Engineering |
Environmental Health (Public Health) |
Environmental Science and Policy |
Epidemiology (Public Health) |
Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Public Health) |
Epidemiology and Global Communicable Disease (Public Health) |
Epidemiology and Global Health (Public Health) |
Epidemiology and Maternal & Child Health (Public Health) |
European History (History) |
Exceptional Student Education |
Executive M.B.A. |
Executive M.B.A. For Physicians |
Executive Program For Health Professionals (Public Health) |
Executive Program For MBA Physicians (Public Health) |
Exercise Science (Physical Education) |
Family Health Nursing (Nursing) |
Fiction (Creative Writing) |
Film Studies (Liberal Arts) |
Finance |
Florida Studies (Liberal Arts) |
Foreign Language Education |
French |
French (College Teaching) |
French (Foreign Language Education) |
Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis (Geography) |
Geography |
Geography (College Teaching) |
Geological Oceanography (Marine Science) |
Geology |
Geology (College Teaching) |
Geotechnical (Civil Engineering) |
German (Foreign Language Education) |
Gerontological Nursing (Nursing) |
Gerontology |
Global Communicable Disease (Public Health) |
Global Disaster Management and Humanitarian Relief (Public Health) |
Global Health Informatics (Public Health) |
Global Health Practice (Public Health) |
Global Sustainability |
Health Administration |
Health Care Organizations and Management (Public Health) |
Health Policies and Programs (Public Health) |
Health Policy and Management (Public Health) |
Health Science (Medical Sciences) |
Heath Systems Informatics (Nursing) |
Heritage Studies (Applied Anthropology) |
History |
History (College Teaching) |
Human Resource Development (Adult Education) |
Humanities (Liberal Arts) |
Industrial Engineering |
Industrial Hygiene (Public Health) |
Industrial Organizational Psychology (Psychology) |
Inorganic Chemistry (Chemistry) |
Interdisciplinary (Marine Science) |
Interdisciplinary Education (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Interdisciplinary Medical Sciences (Medical Sciences) |
Interdisciplinary Transportation (Civil Engineering) |
Jazz Composition (Music) |
Jazz Performance (Music) |
Language Arts (Elementary Education) |
Laser Physics (Physics) |
Latin American History (History) |
Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies |
Leading Sustainable Enterprises (Management) |
Liberal Arts |
Liberal Studies (Liberal Arts) |
Library and Information Science |
Linguistics |
Linguistics: English As A Second Language |
Literature (English) |
Management |
Management Information Systems |
Marine Resource Assessment (Marine Science) |
Marine Science |
Marketing |
Marriage and Family Therapy (Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling (5 Yr)) |
Marriage and Family Therapy (Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling (Post Baccalaureate)) |
Mass Communications |
Materials (Civil Engineering) |
Materials (Civil Engineering) |
Materials Physics (Physics) |
Materials Science and Engineering |
Maternal and Child Health (Public Health) |
Mathematics |
Mathematics (5 Year Program) |
Mathematics (College Teaching) |
Mathematics Education |
Mathematics Education (6-12) |
Measurement and Evaluation (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Mechanical Engineering |
Media Studies (Mass Communications) |
Medical Microbiology and Immunology (Medical Sciences) |
Medical Physics (Physics) |
Medical Sciences |
Medieval History (History) |
Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine (Medical Sciences) |
Microbiology |
Microelectronics (Electrical Engineering) |
Middle Grades Mathematics |
Middle School Education (General) (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Middle School Education, English (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Middle School Education, Mathematics (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Middle School Education, Science (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Middle School Education, Social Studies (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Molecular Medicine (Medical Sciences) |
Multimedia Journalism (Mass Communications) |
Music |
Music Education |
Natural/Technological Hazards and Environmental Justice (Geography) |
Nurse Anesthesia (Nursing) |
Nursing |
Nursing Education (Nursing) |
Occupational Health (Public Health) |
Occupational Health Nursing (Nursing) |
Occupational Medicine Residency (Public Health) |
Occupational Safety (Public Health) |
Oncology Nursing (Nursing) |
Optical Physics (Physics) |
Organic Chemistry (Chemistry) |
Pediatric Health Nursing (Nursing) |
Performance (Music) |
Philosophy |
Philosophy and Religion (Philosophy) |
Physical Chemistry (Chemistry) |
Physical Education |
Physical Oceanography (Marine Science) |
Physics |
Physics (College Teaching) |
Physics (Science Education) |
Physiology and Morphology (Biology) |
Piano Pedagogy (Music) |
Poetry (Creative Writing) |
Political Science |
Political Science (College Teaching) |
Polymer Chemistry (Chemistry) |
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing (Nursing) |
Psychology |
Public Administration |
Public Health |
Public Health Administration (Public Health) |
Public Health Education (Public Health) |
Public Health Practice (Public Health) |
Public Health Practice Program (Public Health) |
Pure and Applied (Mathematics) |
Quantitative Analysis (Industrial Engineering) |
Reading Education |
Reading Education (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Real Estate |
Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling (5 Year Program) |
Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling (Post Baccalaureate) |
Religious Studies |
Rhetoric and Composition (English) |
Safety Management (Public Health) |
School Counseling (Counselor Education) |
School Psychology |
Science and Mathematics (Elementary Education) |
Science Education |
Secondary Education (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Secondary Education: Biology (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Secondary Education: Chemistry (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Secondary Education: English (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Secondary Education: Foreign Language (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Secondary Education: Instructional Technology (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Secondary Education: Mathematics (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Secondary Education: Physics (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Secondary Education: Social Science (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Secondary Education: Tesol (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Semiconductor Physics (Physics) |
Social and Political Thought (Liberal Arts) |
Social Science Education |
Social Work |
Socio-Health Sciences (Public Health) |
Sociology |
Sociology (College Teaching) |
Solid State Physics (Physics) |
Spanish |
Spanish (College Teaching) |
Spanish (Foreign Language Education) |
Special Education, Behavior Disorders |
Special Education, Behavior Disorders (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Special Education, Gifted |
Special Education, Gifted (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Special Education, Intellectual Disabilities |
Special Education, Mental Retardation (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Special Education, Motor Disabilities |
Special Education, Motor Disabilities (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Special Education, Specific Learning Disabilities |
Special Education, Specific Learning Disabilities (Curriculum and Instruction) |
Speech Communication (College Teaching) |
Speech-Language Pathology (Post Bacc) |
Statistics |
Strategic Communication Management (Mass Communications) |
Structures (Civil Engineering) |
Theory (Music) |
Toxicology and Risk Assessment (Public Health) |
Transportation (Civil Engineering) |
Urban and Community Design |
Urban and Regional Planning |
Water Resources (Civil Engineering) |
Wireless Circuits and Systems (Electrical Engineering) |
Women's Health (Medical Sciences) |
Women's Studies |