Under new agreement, Santa Fe College students will be guaranteed admission to 17 UF programs

Press release from Santa Fe College
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Santa Fe College students interested in liberal arts and sciences now have 17 guaranteed admission pathways into the University of Florida.
Officials from both institutions will formalize the partnership during a signing ceremony at 10 a.m. on Monday, April 1, at the Jackson N. Sasser Fine Arts Hall on the Santa Fe College Northwest Campus, 3000 NW 83rd St., Gainesville.
Dr. Paul Broadie II, President of Santa Fe College, will be joined by University of Florida Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dr. David Richardson, Associate Dean for Student Affairs Dr. Gillian Lord, and Director of Strategic Initiatives Dr. Adrienne Provost, as well as members of the Santa Fe College leadership team, including Provost and VP for Academic Affairs Dr. Nate Southerland and Senior Vice President Patti Locascio.
To qualify for the Going Gator guaranteed admissions program, students must earn an Associate in Arts degree with a 2.5 cumulative GPA, successfully complete pre-requisite coursework for select majors, and intend to transfer to UF starting in Summer 2025 or later.
The programs are:
- African American Studies
- Astronomy
- Botany
- Classical Studies
- Foreign Languages and Literatures (all specializations)
- Geography (including Environmental Geosciences)
- Geology (including Environmental Geosciences)
- Hispanic and Latin American Languages
- Literature and Linguistics (all specializations within the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies)
- History
- Jewish Studies
- Meteorology
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Religion
- Sustainability Studies
- Women’s Studies
The guaranteed admissions program complements other transfer agreements between the college and university, including general transfer and focused programs in pharmacy, engineering, and design and construction.
More than 70 percent of Santa Fe College’s associate of arts graduates transfer to the University of Florida, more than all 27 Florida College System institutions combined.
Seems nothing is merit based anymore. They care more about the number of students ($) than the quality of the graduates.
“We’ll accept anyone.” It looks like university education is so last century. Applications must be way, way down for those (cough) ‘majors’.
It’s a real shame more local, in-state students don’t garner the same priority admission out-of-state students get to the “Flagship” university of Florida. It’s all about the $$$$.
Most of those educational career paths are worthless until completion of a graduate degree. Is it any wonder the students are wanting their loans forgiven ?
UF has traditionally taken SF grads going back at least 40 years and probably before that. People came here from other parts of the state to attend SF and then transfer into UF. This is nothing new and it’s how Senator Rubio got into UF. Look it up.
You get partial credit. I’ve known many, including IB students who didn’t gain admission as incoming freshman. Sure, some gained admission after attending SFCC first, but that doesn’t change the fact that UF values out of state tuition payments over in state bright futures money.
Look that up.
Email your state senator expressing your displeasure with the strangle hold the Council for Higher Education Association has on Florida universities. They require 30 credit hours in non degree focused classes for a four year degree to be accredited. That is an entire year’s tuition for classes that have nothing to do with your degree. To get an aerospace engineering degree in Germany, a hard S.T.E.M. degree, it only takes three years. And every single class is related to engineering. Even the math class is called “Math for Engineering”. Not a single history, humanities, or language class.
Disagree Befuddled. I think we should want those with higher degrees to not be able to say “I was just following orders” because they have studied and considered history, including of the art, philosophy, religions, and governments that separate us from the chimps. Those are old school undergrad degree requirements.