I got to this thread by my friend Lotus1 tagging me, so I’m not sure what the question is, or who’s asking, LOL.
However, if I can be of any help, please message me since I won’t be visiting this thread often.
I went to UF, and my youngest daughter is currently a sophomore at UCF in Health Sciences. My next door neighbor’s son just graduated in December from UCF Engineering and is now in graduate school at Arizona State. They both LOVE UCF.
There are a couple of misstatements about UCF above. First of all, UCF does not have 50,000 students – they have a little more than 76,000, and they are from all over the world! I believe it is the largest public university in the US.
Size can be good and bad, but I am very impressed by the number, depth, and quality of UCF resources dedicated to student success. The resources are just plain incredible.
UCF has four campuses in Orlando, and here’s a link that describes each campus: Locations & Campuses | University of Central Florida The Engineering school is on Main Campus.
UCF was NOT founded as a commuter school. It is not, and never has been, a commuter school.
UCF was founded in a partnership between the State of Florida and NASA, and still has very close NASA ties.
When NASA launches from Kennedy Space Center, the launch is clearly visible from Main Campus, and if you look at a map of UCF, you’ll see many of the roads are named after NASA projects (Apollo, Gemini, Mercury, etc.)
That’s one reason for the strong engineering school, and the school is surrounded by numerous huge scientific research campuses of major global companies.
Siemens has a very large complex of buildings across the street to the West of Main Campus and the entire area South of Main Campus is a large research park. For science and engineering students, that translates into numerous internship opportunities. UF engineering students come to UCF’s research areas for internships.