University of North Florida

Excellent ballet! Much better then I expected. Thoses dancers/​kids were so professional and dedicated. I am sure there are many very proud parents and grandparents. Lets not forget their teachers, too.

Worst school I’ve ever attended. Everyone is confused here, including the guidance counselors. Every semester was a new chapter of different reasons why I have another semester to attend. Mediocre, smack down in the middle of a highway with a colorful, rainbowesque retention pond leading into this typical looking nightmare of a school. Parking is horrendous. Do not attend this little slice of shitty America.

This review is for the Library. Its open to the public and always has super fast internet!!! I go here all the time and it credit them for staying open so late so i can get papers done with no distractions.

An excellent University where I went many years ago, and my daughter graduated from. I just drove thru here on the way home from a Unilocal event at the Town Center, just to see what it looked like now after several decades (3) of me being absent. I didn’t recognize any of it and it looked fantastic.

First of all, let me dispel any notions about the unfairness of parking that any poopy-​pants baby reviewers have put into your mind. EVERY college has parking disasters. You will not find one that does not. EVERY college will have eagle-​eyed meter maids. I used to be one of them. While the job is a thankless one, surely all of you who are old enough to read this review and operate an automobile KNOW that you will receive a ticket if you park illegally. Don’t want a ticket? Then follow the goddamn parking rules. You’re not allowed to bitch and moan if you knowingly broke a rule and got punished for it. Get over it.
As for the academics, which should be the real focus of a review about a university, they’re simply okay. It largely depends on which major you go into. The most passionate professors are in the humanities, while the jerkiest ones are in the sciences. That is a fact, plain and simple. There are professors who will flat-​out to your face tell you that they dislike you, and that they want to see you fail. There are professors who will take the time to email you after class and ask you how you’re doing and if everything is okay at home if you seem off during a lecture. It’s hit and miss. This comes with any college.
What you really need to watch out for is UNF’s money-​grubbing hands when it comes to late fees, damage fees, cleaning fees, and pretty much anything else they can affix toy our account in order to drain more money from your naïve, youthful 18-​year-​old pockets (probably jingling with loans, grants, or mommy and daddy’s money). UNF loves money. The campus food situation is highway robbery. They make freshmen live on campus AND purchase a meal plan, which is guaranteed to put those extra 15 on your waistline with all of its empty calories and shit food options.
Oh, by the way: if you happen to leave a single bubble-​gum wrapper in your dorm when you move out? $ 80 cleaning fee. Got locked out? $ 40. Decided you didn’t want to live in the damp, mildewed dorms? $ 100 late fee for backing out of that, too. Of course, I’d be a hypocrite if I said that you didn’t deserve those things for breaking UNF’s rules. But it’s still disgusting.
DO NOT LISTEN TO THE ACADEMIC ADVISERS. They are batty old morons with no formal training in their jobs. They will tell you to take 12 credit hours a semester to graduate on time. This is false. You need 15 credit hours a semester to graduate, but I found that out as a junior. Go to your major’s adviser; he or she will be much more knowledgeable about what you need to take, and likely give you a free pass out of some of the prereqs.
One more thing: the Education department is a bully. They’ll push you hard to change your major to Education, saying you won’t get hired in Duval county if you don’t, or anywhere else. But honestly, you could probably replace a good portion of the Education department with sacks of rocks and find no difference in their collective GPA. Bless those girls’ hearts, but they’re trying as hard as they can. Education is the major where other people who couldn’t make it elsewhere (Biology, Math, History, English, etc.) go to die. You can be a great teacher without majoring in Education. Unless you’re going for elementary ed., don’t bother.

For the past few years, UNF has been ranked as a «best value» school. That title is well deserved. Of course, it’s not cheap but compared to the other state schools, you get a great deal.
During my time at UNF I saw a lot of changes happen. When I first started in 2006, the new library had just opened (Starbucks hadn’t even opened on campus!). Four years later when I graduated, almost every building has been renovated and the new student union had been built.
The school has some amazing professors who have serious connections and are more than willing to help students get where they want to be. I would (and do!) highly recommend UNF.
As other people have noted, parking sucks and, IMO, will get worse before it gets better. At least there’s a shuttle now. When I was a freshman, commuters had to park in the lot off Beach Blvd (which at the time could not be accessed from campus) and walk every day, so the shuttle is an improvement to me.

After attending a basketball game tonight, the school needs to hire better crowd control. Wasted obnoxious college kids running onto the court in the middle of a play is uncalled for… Especially when y’all’s coach has to get on the speaker to yell at them. Another complaint is directed towards your aisle seat checkers. The women assigned to section 13 was God awful! I showed her my ticket and my seat was taken so she said to just sit here in one of these empty seats. Well game time had started and the stands were filling up… And of course there were paying fans not happy about not being able to sit in their assigned seats. The aisle staff had screwed the entire section up so bad that she had to bring over police officers to fix her mistake. Not a single person was in their correct seat but we were in the correct section and correct row. Very pathetic to witness. Last complaint, teach your beer vendors how to not over serve the college kids. You could spot a mile away that they needed to be cut off, but yet the venders kept allowing them to purchase 2 beers every time they visited the register. (I’m not a bitter 30y/​o… I’ve just grown up around how college sporting events are supposed to be ran and I was expecting a lot more from y’all, as a new school)

One of the most suburban campuses I’ve visited. That said the students always seem friendly enough and all areas of the school seem well maintained.

Watched our grand daughter do her cheer competitions here for the last two years. The place is very clean and lots and lots of seating. Plenty of restrooms to accommodate the crowds. Love that they have food venders and reasonably priced. The place is beautiful with lots of shade trees. You can tell they take pride in their campus and college. Security is great. Parking garage also accommodates for plenty of cars of all sizes. It is so well laid out for traffic coming and going. You can see from most anywhere you sit to watch the competition and hear. That is an extra plus. So many places the sound system just sucks. They allow you to take pictures as long as you don’t distract the teams from performing. I love that we have our city competition here. Easy to find and super nice large oak trees everywhere. The girls always have a nice place to eat their lunch. Keep up the great work you guys do at UNF.

I’ve been a student of this university (twice now) and I definitely have grown to love it. It’s still got a small school feel even though it’s in a big city. And while it may be smaller than other schools in the state university system, it’s definitely becoming a competitor.
I love that they really take the ‘working’ student into consideration; especially the business school. You can finish your degree and hold down a full time job at the same time. It really is possible.
My biggest complaint — like many others — would be the parking. While the school is expanding and adding buildings, they’re not replacing the parking they remove very well and they’re charging more & more each year. Yes, I know every school goes through this, but that does not make it any less annoying.

Pretty campus! Some of the dorm complexes looked amazing and one of them had a damn lazy river! Not like I would have gotten much studying had UCF had that available to me when I was going to college.
We were there to show my daughter the campus and take a tour. It is really amazing what they are doing up there.

Premium parking pass 160 dollars… parking spots available in premium parking every day… zero

If Justin Beber sold 20 000 tickets to an arena that only held 10 000 people… do you think people would be pissed? Campus cops prey on students like eagles on rabbits… they cant wait to write you a ticket for something…
Love the professors… like the campus, the atmosphere and the courses offered
DO NOT LIKE the fact that last year they exposed thousands of students NAMES AND SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS to a «foreign computer» they said in the letters that we got… why are they stored locally and non encrypted on a single drive ?? My home network has more security… thanks UNF

Did you know that you don’t have to be a college student to enjoy some of the cool stuff a college offers?
Yes, my son took swimming lessons at the UNF Aquatics Center. His lessons were about $ 60/​$ 70 for a session. The public was welcome to swim for $ 5 a person in their indoor swimming pool. Keep in mind, however, the pool closes early on Sunday.
I’ve seen several shows and performances at UNF as well. Recently, I took my son and my friend and her daughter to the Positive Influence Tour show for kids. It was a pretty small venue in the Robinson Theatre. I also watched a Filipino play in that same theatre.
A few years ago, I saw comedians Kyle Cease and Demetri Martin in the UNF Arena, a much larger venue. When I was much younger, I also saw Third Eye Blind perform and attended a ceremony there.
For the outdoorsy in you, they also have several nature trails you can hike.
If you want some knowledge but you’re not looking to make the commitment for a degree, consider taking an extra-​curricular class. Travel chica took an online Japanese language course a few years ago.

I love the place. I go to school there. It is one of the most under rated Universities out there. The dorms have a lazy river for crying out loud. You cant get that anywhere in Florida

We live nearby and love to go on bike rides through the campus. There are great paths in the woods to go for walks on. And nice places to picnic at. Campus is never busy or crowded. Go watch a tennis match (free) or baseball game ($ 3.00) during the summer.