SRQ Magazine | May/June 2024: Guide to Colleges - University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

SARASOTA-MANATEE

This is a pivotal, exciting moment in the history of USF in Sarasota-Manatee, and of our campus. Our contributions to the region are growing as we expand academic and research opportunities available to our students and faculty. And with the opening of our new student center and residence hall this August, we are building a more vigorous campus experience brimming with vitality and purpose.

Karen Holbrook, regional chancellor USF Sarasota-Manatee

USF Sarasota-Manatee is a campus of the University of South Florida, a high-impact research university dedicated to student success and committed to community engagement. With campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Manatee, USF serves approximately 50,000 students who represent nearly 150 different countries. In fiscal year 2023, research spending at USF increased by 14% to $461 million and USF was again one of the top universities in the world for securing new patents, demonstrating that USF is a leader in solving global problems and improving lives.

The University of South Florida is growing, right here in Sarasota and Manatee counties. USF Sarasota-Manatee, a branch campus of a preeminent global research university, is growing along with the rest of the community, offering new and expanded programs in myriad fields, including cybersecurity, hospitality and tourism management, nursing, risk management and insurance and aeronautical engineering, designed to prepare graduates to fill the talent pipeline for these critical industries. USF’s stature, and that of higher education in the region, were further elevated in 2023, when USF became only the third Florida university invited to join the elite, 71-member Association of American Universities. AAU membership recognizes USF’s commitment to high-impact research and overall excellence that has impact on our community and the world.

Our campus also is growing along U.S. 41, across from Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport. We continue planning for a new Nursing/STEM building that will foster continued expansion of our academic and research offerings. And in August, we will open a new 100,000-square-foot student center and residence hall, the first expansion of the campus since it opened in 2006. The student center on the first two floors will include a dining hall, book store, offices for USF World, student government and other activities and a ballroom that will be available for use by the community. The top four floors will be the on-campus home for 200 USF students, who will build a new type of community at USF Sarasota-Manatee and forever set aside the notion that we’re just a “commuter campus.”

CURRICULUM HIGHLIGHTS

HERE FOR OUR GROWING COMMUNITY

The College of Behavioral and Community Sciences, the College of Education and the College of Nursing work with the local community to prepare students for careers in education, health care, communications sciences and disorders, aging studies, mental health policy, social work, the criminal justice system and other fields.

HERE FOR OUR GROWING MARKETPLACE

The Muma College of Business is expanding its School of Hospitality and Tourism Management and Baldwin Risk Partners School of Risk Management and Insurance to prepare more graduates to meet the growing and complex demands of their respective industries.

HERE FOR OUR GROWING FUTURE

The College of Engineering is offering a new aerospace engineering program on the Sarasota-Manatee campus to equip graduates for exciting opportunities in the evolving industry. And the College of Arts and Sciences is welcoming biomedical sciences majors to our campus for the first time.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA SARASOTA-MANATEE | 8350 N. TAMIAMI TRAIL | SARASOTA, FL 34243 | 941.359.4200 | SARASOTAMANATEE.USF.EDU