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UCF was founded in 1963 and opened its first classes in 1968 as Florida Technological University, with the mission to provide personnel educated in science, technology, engineering and math to support the growing U.S. space program at the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (known at the time as Cape Kennedy Air Force ...
The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a metropolitan public research and space-grant university located on a 1,415-acre (5.73 km 2) main campus in Orlando, Florida, United States. [1] UCF is a member institution of the State University System of Florida and is the largest university in the
The UCF Men's Basketball team played its first exhibition game in the 9,400-seat UCF Arena (now Addition Financial Arena), with an 86–78 win over the Saint Leo Lions, on November 3, 2007. Their first regular-season game in the venue was a 63–60 victory over the Nevada on November 11.
The Citronaut was the first mascot of Florida Technological University (FTU), which later became the University of Central Florida (UCF). The mascot appeared on the first student handbook in 1968–1969.
The UCF football program can be traced back to a speech given by the university's second president, Dr. Trevor Colbourn, in January 1979. [18] Colbourn believed that a successful athletics program would bring the university greater renown, and tasked Dr. Jack O'Leary with the job of creating a new football program at the school. [19]
Pegasus is the official academic logo, symbol and mascot of the University of Central Florida (UCF), a public research university with its main campus in unincorporated Orange County, Florida, United States.
UCF is listed as a university with "very high research activity" by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. [3] With an enrollment of over 7,500 undergraduate and graduate students as of Fall 2012, the college is one of the premier engineering schools in the United States.
UCF's fourth president, Dr. John C. Hitt presided over a university which doubled in terms of enrollment to become the nation's second-largest, increased its admission standards, and completed construction of an on-campus football stadium, new arena, and the development of the UCF College of Medicine at Lake Nona.