Latest Unofficial FSU Admissions Stats

parent2noles
Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:26:05 +0000

It’s my understanding that if the Florida Legislature funds the two proposed med schools they will be funded behind the UF, USF and FSU med schools. That supposedly is the agreement reached. Personally, I think a UCF and an FIU med school are a waste of taxpayer money.

If they took that ~$400 million it will take to start these new med programs and invested it into the existing schools, they’d probably get a faster return on the investment. It is political pork, pure and simple.

Not sure what you mean when you say FSU’s not doing anything…the undergrad College of Business rose three spots to #25 nationally in all Public Universities; the Law School has shown considerable elevation in national rankings for years and is close to UF’s in rank. The research dollars have reached a new record, in 2000 they received the first allopathic med school in the U.S. in 20 years…plus lots more. The latest freshman class has higher stats than ever before, FSU has more nationally ranked grad programs than ANY other school in Florida, including U Miami, except UF. FSU’s emphasis programs rank with the best in the U.S., with several Top 10 programs, exceeding UF’s rank in those areas, if they apply. What’s UCF’s Business program? #144 or something like that? FSU also hosts the National High Magnetic Field Lab plus lured away from UWisconsin-Madison the super lab they hosted. Plus, FSU is now ranked 51st (up from 54th in 2005) natioanlly of all public research universities - higher than all in Florida but UF.

How can you say they’ve done nothing? You’ve got to remember that UF claims the IFAS program - the state agricultural research program - there is no other, in it’s dollars appointed to research. They’re lucky, this is a gift, it make it seem they spend more per student than they actually do.