<p>They do have a great engineering program. Even in that field, however, UCF is far ahead of USF and other, older, state schools. Here are the latest Engineering School rankings as per U.S. News and World Report for Florida schools:</p>
<p>Engineering National Rankings:</p>
<h1>24 - University of Florida</h1>
<h1>80 - University of Central Florida</h1>
<h1>92 - Florida State University/Florida A&M University</h1>
<p>The following received no score and were listed alphabetically:</p>
<p>N/A - Florida Atlantic University
N/A - Florida Institute of Technology
N/A - Florida International University
N/A - University of Miami
N/A - University of South Florida</p>
<p>Also, both the University of South Florida and the University of Central Florida recently released their Fall 2008 incoming freshman class statistics.</p>
<p>Fall 2008 - USF Average SAT Score: 1160
Fall 2008 - UCF Average SAT Score: 1219</p>
<p>Fall 2008 - USF Average H.S. GPA: 3.73
Fall 2008 - UCF Average H.S. GPA: 3.76</p>
<p>Fall 2008 - USF National Merit Scholars: 22
Fall 2008 - UCF National Merit Scholars: 63</p>
<p>Sources:
USF: <a href=“http://www.usf.edu/pdfs/USF_PocketFacts.pdf[/url]”>http://www.usf.edu/pdfs/USF_PocketFacts.pdf</a>
UCF: [UCF</a> Newsroom](<a href=“http://news.ucf.edu/UCFnews/index?page=article&id=002400417e90e1810117e04d7e29007ab4]UCF”>http://news.ucf.edu/UCFnews/index?page=article&id=002400417e90e1810117e04d7e29007ab4)</p>