What Students Say
Likes
- Lets start with the cost of tution. It is one of the most budget college you will ever get in US. The cost of living is also very cheap if you opt for off campus housing. They have really good sports complexes to play and and many communities like chess etc. You can opt for any services for free like Yoga, Dance, or any other instructor based service.
- As mentioned before it is cost effective, weather is good, and the ranking is top 50 in CS.
Dislikes
- Its a common issue among all the colleges and universities in the USA, that there is no placement cell as we find in Indian colleges, hence students have to grind for jobs on their own. Apart from that there is not much to dislike about.
Required Exams for Admission
Its a good experience as long as you take benefit of the services offered to you as a student. If you are paying such hefty amount make sure you extract every dollar out of it by honestly studying and making the best out of it.
Course Curriculum
It highly depends on the professor, for example there was a professor who taught the same text book from undergraduate, but there as professor who made us go through multiple research papers to understand what is going on in the present period rather then the text book knowledge. Overall I would say moderate because both ends exists.
Faculty
Highly depends on the course, I have been in a course with 1:200 and 1:7 class ratio. Faculty are awesome, some are renowned. They are very approachable. Alin Dobra is one of the most famous faculty in UF.
Campus Life
There are many clubs to join, like SE club, chess clubs, Computer networking club, ACM club, mainly all are from discord, so you need to check your discord feature where it advertises clubs around you based on the location. There is access to research websites especially for CS students, you can approach the faculty to know how to access them using your college credentials. Its pretty much straight forward, you just need to be on college VPN and go to ACM or any other research paper based website where you need the papers. They have vast libraries and they have a special floor for graduate students as well. You can even book conference rooms and there are plenty of it. Keep an eye out during exam time, they fill up really quickly. Its good for group studies. They have 2 sports complexes, one is pretty large with Lawn tennis, Basketball, Squash, Volleyball etc. All apartments will happen to have a swimming pool of their own and college also does have it. WIFI is as fast as it can get, free to access for anyone.
Placement
Salaries cannot be given out since we need to literally ask students, there is no placement reports, it all depends on the student if he can crack it. There are students who got into FAANG there are students who went back home.
Accommodation
You can either stay off campus (Niche, Stoneridge are some apartments) or on campus. Off campus you can get unfurnished from 250$ per half room to 600$ furnished single room. On campus rates are almost double starting around 1050$ per room.
Exams
I submitted my CV which highlighted skills required specific to the project I will be working on with relevant experience and publications in journals &/ conferences. I was interviewed by the Project supervisor with whom I have to work on the project. I was asked to present my experiences and achievements by a presentation at the start and then the relevant question followed. I submitted a statement of purpose, along with a Resume and 3 LORs.
Fees
1255$ * 30 credits - 4500$ scholarship. (rate per credit changes every year).
Scholarship
4,500$ Total.
