Florida State University

Florida State University (FSU) is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States, and a senior member of the State University System of Florida that was chartered in 1851.佛罗里达州立大学（Florida State University，简称 FSU）是美国佛罗里达州塔拉哈西的一所公立研究型大学，也是 1851 年获特许设立的佛罗里达州立大学系统资深成员。

It occupies Florida's oldest continuous site of higher education, maintains 17 colleges, and hosts Florida's only national laboratory, the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.该校坐落于佛罗里达州历史最悠久且连续使用的高等教育校址，设有 17 个学院，并拥有佛州唯一的国家实验室——国家强磁场实验室。

In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Florida State is placed 546th globally, and in fall 2025 it enrolled 46,184 students from all 50 U.S. states and 133 non-US countries.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，佛罗里达州立大学位列全球第 546 位；2025 年秋季入学学生 46,184 人，来自美国全部 50 个州与 133 个国家。

History

• Florida State traces to an 1823 plan of the U.S. Congress to create a higher education system for the Florida territory, later codified by the 1838 Florida Constitution, which set aside land for schools.佛罗里达州立大学的渊源可追溯至 1823 年美国国会为佛罗里达属地创建高等教育体系的计划，1838 年佛州宪法将其确立，并为学校划拨土地。
• In 1845 Congress passed the law admitting Florida as the 27th state, and in a supplementary act authorised two townships to host seminaries, one east and one west of the Suwannee River.1845 年，国会通过接纳佛罗里达为第 27 个州的法案，并在补充法案中授权设立两个镇区各办一所神学院，分居苏瓦尼河东西两岸。
• In 1851 the Florida Legislature authorised the seminaries to be awarded to the two towns offering the best school support, with a first purpose of training male and female teachers.1851 年，佛罗里达州议会授权将两所神学院授予提供最佳办学支持的两个城镇，其首要目标是培养男女师资。
• The East Seminary settled in Ocala in 1853, while the West Seminary sparked a contest among Quincy, Marianna and Tallahassee, and Quincy dropped out in the following years.东神学院于 1853 年落户奥卡拉，而西神学院则在昆西、玛丽安娜与塔拉哈西之间引发争夺，昆西在此后数年退出。
• In 1854 Tallahassee re-established an old school for boys, called the Florida Institute, and combined it with land and buildings as an incentive to the state.1854 年，塔拉哈西重建了一所旧式男子学校「佛罗里达学院」，并连同土地与校舍一并作为争取州府的筹码。
• The legislature awarded Tallahassee the West Seminary in 1856, the governor signed the law on 1 January 1857, and the state acquired the campus land from the City of Tallahassee that January.州议会于 1856 年将西神学院授予塔拉哈西，州长于 1857 年 1 月 1 日签署法案，州政府亦在同月从塔拉哈西市取得校园土地。
• In October 1858 the school became coeducational by incorporating the nearby Female Institute, which had been founded in 1843, and Francis Eppes chaired the seminary's board of education for eight years.1858 年 10 月，该校并入 1843 年创立的邻近女子学院而成为男女同校；弗朗西斯·埃普斯则主持该神学院教育董事会达八年。
• During 1860-1861 the legislature amended the 1851 law and began military instruction, partly to protect teaching staff from conscription, and the seminary grew to about 250 students as the Florida Military and Collegiate Institute.1860 至 1861 年间，州议会修订 1851 年法案并开始军事训练，部分是为使教职员免于被征召；神学院以「佛罗里达军事与文理学院」之名发展到约 250 名学生。
• In 1865 cadets from the school joined Confederate troops at the Battle of Natural Bridge south of Tallahassee, helping to leave Tallahassee as the only Confederate capital east of the Mississippi not to fall.1865 年，该校学员加入邦联军队参加塔拉哈西南部的自然桥战役，使塔拉哈西成为密西西比河以东唯一未被攻陷的邦联首府。
• At the surrender of Florida, Union forces disarmed the cadets and used campus buildings as barracks until September 1865, when the school reopened and resumed its academic purpose.佛罗里达投降后，北方军队解除了学员武装并将校舍用作兵营直至 1865 年 9 月，此后学校复课并恢复其学术职能。
• In 1883 the West Florida Seminary was reorganised by the Board of Education as the Literary College of the University of Florida, and in 1884 it awarded its first diploma.1883 年，西佛罗里达神学院由教育董事会改组为佛罗里达大学文学院，并于 1884 年颁发第一张毕业文凭。
• In 1885 the legislature recognised the institution under the title University of Florida but committed no additional financing, and the association dissolved when the medical college moved to Jacksonville that year.1885 年，州议会以「佛罗里达大学」之名承认该机构，却未追加经费；同年医学院迁往杰克逊维尔后，这一联合体随即解散。
• By 1897 it had become Florida's first arts college, and in 1901 it was renamed Florida State College, a four-year institution divided into the College, the Teachers College, the Music College and the Academic College.到 1897 年，它已成为佛罗里达州第一所文科学院；1901 年更名为佛罗里达州立学院，成为设有学院部、师范部、音乐部与学术部的四年制机构。
• In 1902 Florida State awarded its first master's degree, enrolled 252 men and women, and operated Florida's first university library from 1903.1902 年，该校颁发了第一个硕士学位，注册学生共 252 名男女；自 1903 年起，该校图书馆成为佛罗里达州第一所大学图书馆。
• The 1905 Buckman Act reorganised Florida's colleges into a school for white men, a school for white women and a school for African Americans, converting the coeducational institution into the Florida Female College, later the Florida State College for Women.1905 年的《巴克曼法案》将佛州的学院重组为白人男子学校、白人女子学校与非裔美国人学校，把原本男女同校的机构改为佛罗里达女子学院，即后来的佛罗里达州立女子学院。
• In 1911 the estate of benefactor James Westcott III sued the state educational board, and the Florida Supreme Court ruled in favour of the state, holding that the change of character was within the intent of the Westcott will.1911 年，捐助人詹姆斯·韦斯科特三世的遗产管理方起诉州教育董事会，佛州最高法院判州方胜诉，认定院校性质的改变符合韦斯科特遗嘱的本意。
• By 1933 the Florida State College for Women was the third-largest women's college in the United States and the first state women's college in the South awarded a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.到 1933 年，佛罗里达州立女子学院已成为全美第三大女子学院，也是南方第一所获授 Phi Beta Kappa 分会的州立女子学院。
• After World War II, veterans using the G.I. Bill strained the state system, so a Tallahassee Branch of the University of Florida was opened on the women's college campus with men housed in barracks at nearby Dale Mabry Field.二战后，凭《退伍军人法案》入学的退伍军人使州立体系不堪重负，于是在女子学院校园开设「佛罗里达大学塔拉哈西分校」，男生则安置于附近戴尔·马布里机场的营房。
• In 1947 the Florida Legislature returned the institution to coeducational status and designated it Florida State University, and in the post-war years departments and colleges in business, journalism, library science, nursing and social welfare were added.1947 年，佛罗里达州议会恢复该校男女同校地位并将其定名为佛罗里达州立大学；战后数年间，又陆续增设商学、新闻、图书馆学、护理与社会福利等院系。
• In 1962 Maxwell Courtney became the first African-American undergraduate admitted to Florida State, followed by Fred Flowers in 1965, Lenny Hall in 1966 and Calvin Patterson in 1968 as pioneers in baseball, basketball and football.1962 年，马克斯韦尔·考特尼成为佛州州立录取的首位非裔本科生；其后弗雷德·弗劳尔斯于 1965 年、伦尼·霍尔于 1966 年、卡尔文·帕特森于 1968 年分别成为棒球、篮球与橄榄球项目的首位非裔球员。
• In June 2000 the Florida Legislature approved the allopathic Florida State University College of Medicine, the first medical school approved in the United States in almost two decades, and in 2013 FSU was designated a preeminent university.2000 年 6 月，佛罗里达州议会批准设立对抗疗法医学院——这是美国近二十年来首个获批的医学院；2013 年，FSU 被指定为佛州最初的两所「卓越大学」之一。

Academics

• Florida State University is divided into 17 colleges and more than 110 centers, facilities, labs and institutes, offering 277 degree programs in total.佛罗里达州立大学下设 17 个学院与 110 余个中心、设施、实验室与研究所，共提供 277 个学位项目。
• The university offers 103 baccalaureate programs, 107 master's programs, an advanced master's or specialist degree in six areas, 63 doctoral programs and three professional degree programs.该校开设 103 个本科学位、107 个硕士项目、六个领域的高级硕士或专业学位、63 个博士项目以及三个专业学位项目。
• Its colleges include Arts and Sciences, Business, Communication and Information, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Human Sciences, Law, Medicine, Motion Picture Arts, Music, Nursing, Social Sciences and Public Policy, and Social Work.其学院包括文理学院、商学院、传播与信息学院、犯罪学与刑事司法学院、教育学院、工程学院、美术学院、人文科学学院、法学院、医学院、电影艺术学院、音乐学院、护理学院、社会科学与公共政策学院以及社会工作学院。
• Florida State employed 2,727 faculty members and more than 3,920 staff, and in fall 2025 it enrolled 46,184 students from all 50 states and 133 non-US countries.佛罗里达州立大学聘有 2,727 名专任教师与 3,920 余名职员；2025 年秋季入学学生 46,184 人，来自美国全部 50 个州与 133 个国家。
• In 2024 the university enrolled 44,308 students, about 24.2 percent of them graduate and professional students, with a women-to-men ratio of 58 to 42, and hosted roughly 2,500 international students.2024 年该校注册学生 44,308 人，其中约 24.2% 为研究生与专业学位学生，男女比例约为 58 比 42，另有约 2,500 名国际学生。
• The Fall 2023 entering class had a weighted GPA of 4.26, with 25th-to-75th percentile scores of 1250 to 1380 on the SAT and 27 to 31 on the ACT, and an acceptance rate of 25.4 percent for 74,038 applicants.2023 年秋季入学新生的加权 GPA 为 4.26，SAT 第 25 至 75 百分位分数为 1250 至 1380，ACT 为 27 至 31；在 74,038 名申请者中录取率为 25.4%。
• Florida State reported a second-year full-time freshman retention rate of 96 percent, a four-year graduation rate of 75 percent and a six-year graduation rate of 83.0 percent.佛罗里达州立大学的二年级全日制新生保有率为 96%，四年毕业率为 75%，六年毕业率为 83.0%。
• Per 2023 National Science Foundation data the university had research and development expenditures of 414.46 million dollars, ranking 79th out of 890 evaluated institutions.根据 2023 年美国国家科学基金会数据，该校研发支出为 4.1446 亿美元，在 890 所受评机构中位列第 79 位。
• Florida State operates the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, the State Art Museum of Florida, which opened in 1930 and holds more than 10,000 objects including eight paintings by Peter Paul Rubens.佛罗里达州立大学运营位于萨拉索塔的约翰与梅布尔·林格林艺术博物馆，即佛罗里达州立美术馆，该馆于 1930 年开馆，藏品逾 10,000 件，其中包括鲁本斯的八幅画作。
• The FSU Libraries hold more than four million titles and provide access to over 1,064 databases and 120,000 electronic journals, with eight libraries on the Tallahassee campus and seven elsewhere in the world.FSU 图书馆系统藏书逾 400 万种，可访问 1,064 个以上数据库与 120,000 种电子期刊，塔拉哈西主校区有八座图书馆，另有七座分布于世界其他地区。
• The Paul A. M. Dirac Science Library, named for the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and FSU professor Paul Dirac, opened in December 1989 and houses more than 500,000 books.保罗·A·M·狄拉克理科图书馆以诺贝尔物理学奖得主、FSU 教授保罗·狄拉克命名，于 1989 年 12 月启用，藏书逾 500,000 册。
• The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, or Mag Lab, is a 440,000-square-foot complex employing 715 faculty, staff, graduate and postdoctoral researchers, and it is the largest and highest-powered laboratory of its kind in the world.国家强磁场实验室（俗称 Mag Lab）占地 440,000 平方英尺，雇有 715 名教职员、研究生与博士后研究人员，是同类实验室中规模最大、功率最高者。
• The College of Medicine, approved in 2000, trains students through diversified hospital and community-based clinical education, with first- and second-year students in Tallahassee and third- and fourth-year rotations at six regional campuses.医学院于 2000 年获批，采用多元化的医院与社区临床教学，一、二年级学生在塔拉哈西就读，三、四年级则在六个地区校区轮转实习。
• Florida State's International Programs rank 11th nationally among university study-abroad programmes, sending more than 2,379 students abroad each year through four permanent study centres in London, Florence, Valencia and Panama City.FSU 国际项目在全美大学海外学习项目中位列第 11，每年派出 2,379 名以上学生，依托伦敦、佛罗伦萨、瓦伦西亚与巴拿马城四个常设学习中心。
• The Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement provides preparation, orientation and academic support for first-generation college students, including the Unconquered Scholars Program for students who were homeless or in foster care.学业保留与提升中心为第一代大学生提供预备、入学导引与学业支持，并设有面向曾无家可归或身处寄养体系学生的「Unconquered Scholars」项目。
• Research at Florida State spans 37 degree programs in interdisciplinary fields, and its High Energy Physics programme, established in 1950, collaborates with Fermilab and CERN.佛罗里达州立大学的研究覆盖 37 个跨学科领域的学位项目，其 1950 年设立的高能物理项目与费米实验室和欧洲核子研究中心合作。

Campus

• The Tallahassee main campus consists of 485.87 acres and is bordered by Stadium Drive to the west, Tennessee Street, or U.S. Route 90, to the north, Macomb Street to the east and Gaines Street to the south.塔拉哈西主校区占地 485.87 英亩，西临体育场大道、北靠田纳西街（美国 90 号公路）、东至马科姆街、南接盖恩斯街。
• The Westcott Building at College Avenue and S. Copeland Street is the university's most identifiable structure and is the oldest continuously used site of higher education in Florida, home to the Ruby Diamond Concert Hall.位于学院大道与南科普兰街交口的韦斯科特大 楼是该校最具标志性的建筑，也是佛州历史最悠久且连续使用的高等教育场所，内设红宝石·戴蒙德音乐厅。
• Seven libraries sit on or around the main campus, including the Robert Manning Strozier Library, the Dirac Science Library, the Claude Pepper Library and the FAMU/FSU Engineering Library.主校区内及周边共有七座图书馆，包括罗伯特·曼宁·斯特罗齐尔图书馆、狄拉克理科图书馆、克劳德·佩珀图书馆以及 FAMU/FSU 工程图书馆。
• Doak Campbell Stadium seats 79,560 spectators, is contained within the brick facade of the University Center, and is reportedly the largest continuous brick structure in the United States.多克·坎贝尔体育场可容纳 79,560 名观众，被包裹在大学中心的砖砌外立面之内，据称是美国最大的连续砖构建筑。
• The FSU Southwest Campus, acquired in 1930 and formerly called "The Farm", covers 740 acres and houses the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and the Don Veller Seminole Golf Course.FSU 西南校区于 1930 年购入，旧称「农场」，占地 740 英亩，容纳 FAMU-FSU 工程学院、国家强磁场实验室与唐·维勒塞米诺尔高尔夫球场。
• Florida State University Panama City began operations in 1967 and FSU assumed control in July 1982, with the Bay County Commission donating a 26-acre waterfront site completed in 1987.佛罗里达州立大学巴拿马城校区于 1967 年开始运作，FSU 于 1982 年 7 月接管，湾县委员会捐出的一块 26 英亩滨水校地于 1987 年建成。
• Florida State maintains campuses in London, Florence, Panama City in Panama and Valencia in Spain as part of its year-round international programmes, and its College of Medicine has six regional campuses in Florida and Georgia.佛罗里达州立大学在伦敦、佛罗伦萨、巴拿马的巴拿马城与西班牙瓦伦西亚设有校区，作为全年制国际项目的一部分；其医学院在佛州与佐治亚州设六个地区校区。
• Historic residence halls on the older eastern half of the Tallahassee campus include Broward, Bryan, Cawthon, Gilchrist, Jennie Murphree, Landis and Reynolds, with newer complexes Ragans, Wildwood and DeGraff Hall.塔拉哈西校区东部旧区的历史宿舍楼包括布劳沃德、布莱恩、考森、吉尔克里斯特、珍妮·墨菲、兰迪斯与雷诺兹，较新的宿舍群则有拉根斯、野林与德格拉夫楼。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Florida State University is placed 546th in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，佛罗里达州立大学位列全球第 546 位。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place Florida State in the 326-350 band globally.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将佛罗里达州立大学列入全球 326 至 350 区间。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities edition of 2026-2027 ranks Florida State 314th in the world.在 2026 至 2027 年版美国新闻最佳全球大学排名中，佛罗里达州立大学位列世界第 314 位。
• The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 places Florida State University in the 301-400 band.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名将佛罗里达州立大学列入 301 至 400 区间。
• Florida State is one of the two original state-designated "preeminent" universities in Florida, a status based on objective criteria that must be earned annually since 2013.佛罗里达州立大学是佛州最初指定的两所「卓越大 学」之一，该地位自 2013 年起基于客观指标评选且须逐年重新获得。
• For 2022, U.S. News & World Report ranked Florida State as the 19th best public university in the United States and 55th overall among all national universities.2022 年，《美国新闻与世界报道》将佛罗里达州立大学列为美国最佳公立大学第 19 位、全美大学综合第 55 位。
• Princeton Review's 2024 Best Value Colleges ranked FSU the top public university in Florida and sixteenth nationally, and the university receives the highest National Science Foundation research award in the state.《普林斯顿评论》2024 年「最具价值大学」将 FSU 评为佛州最佳公立大学、全美第 16 位；该校还获得佛州最高的国家科学基金会科研资助。
• In 2024 the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression ranked Florida State third in the United States for free speech and thought.2024 年，个人权利与表达基金会将佛罗里达州立大学列为全美言论与思想自由第 3 位。
• OpenAlex attributes 113,849 works to Florida State University with 8,830,635 citations, and the university's faculty have included six Nobel laureates.OpenAlex 为佛罗里达州立大学收录 113,849 篇成果、被引 8,830,635 次；其历任教师中曾有六位诺贝尔奖得主。

Student life

• Florida State University's motto is "Vires, Artes, Mores", meaning strength, skill and character, and its colours are garnet and gold with the Marching Chiefs as its marching band.佛罗里达州立大学的校训是「Vires、Artes、Mores」，意为力量、技艺与品格；其代表色为石榴红与金色，行进乐队名为「Marching Chiefs」。
• The university's alma mater, "High O'er Towering Pines", was composed by Charlie Carter in 1956, and the fight song is the "FSU Fight Song".该校校歌《High O'er Towering Pines》由查理·卡特于 1956 年谱写，战歌为《FSU Fight Song》。
• About 17 percent of undergraduate men are in a fraternity and 23 percent of undergraduate women are in a sorority, coordinated through the Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Council, Multicultural Greek Council and National Pan-Hellenic Council.约 17% 的本科男生加入兄弟会、23% 的本科女生加入姐妹会，由校际兄弟会理事会、泛希腊理事会、多元文化希腊理事会与全国泛希理事会协调。
• Florida State has more than 650 Recognized Student Organizations, ranging from athletic and cultural to musical and philanthropic groups such as the Garnet and Gold Scholar Society and InternatioNole.佛罗里达州立大学有 650 多个注册学生组织，涵盖体育、文化、音乐与公益等领域，如石榴金学者学会与 InternatioNole。
• The FSU Flying High Circus is one of only two collegiate circus programmes in the United States, whose participants audition for roles and must be enrolled degree-seeking students.FSU 高空飞行马戏团是全美仅有的两个高校马戏项目之一，参与者须经试演选拔，且必须是正式注册的学位在读学生。
• Florida State provides housing for 6,387 undergraduate and graduate students as well as Living-Learning Communities, with the 223,000-square-foot Student Union at the centre of campus life.佛罗里达州立大学为 6,387 名本科与研究生提供住宿，并设有「生活-学习社区」；占地 223,000 平方英尺的学生活动中心是校园生活的中心。
• The Lakefront Park and Retreat Center is a 73-acre lakeside recreational area on Lake Bradford, founded in 1920 as a retreat when FSU was the state college for women, and later called Camp Flastacowo.湖滨公园与静修中心是位于布拉德福德湖畔、占地 73 英亩的滨水休闲区，1920 年创立时为女子学院时期的静修地，后称 Camp Flastacowo。
• Florida State's varsity teams, the Seminoles, have won 19 all-time national athletic championships in nine sports and compete in NCAA Division I and the Atlantic Coast Conference.佛罗里达州立大学的校队「塞米诺尔人」在九个运动项目上累计赢得 19 次全国冠军，参加 NCAA 一级联赛与大西洋沿岸联盟。

Notable people

• Paul Dirac, the British physicist who won the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics, was a professor at Florida State University, where the Dirac Science Library is named after him.1933 年诺贝尔物理学奖得主、英国物理学家保罗·狄拉克曾任佛罗里达州立大学教授，该校的狄拉克理科图书馆即以他命名。
• Robert A. Holton, a professor of chemistry at Florida State, developed the first total synthesis of the anti-cancer drug paclitaxel, or Taxol, earning the university more than 351 million dollars in royalties.佛罗里达州立大学化学教授罗伯特·A·霍尔顿首次完成了抗癌药物紫杉醇（Taxol）的全合成，为该校赢得逾 3.51 亿美元专利使用费。
• Harold Kroto, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and James M. Buchanan, the 1986 Nobel laureate in Economics, were among Florida State's faculty.分享 1996 年诺贝尔化学奖的哈罗德·克罗托，以及 1986 年诺贝尔经济学奖得主詹姆斯·M·布坎南，都曾是佛罗里达州立大学的教师。
• John Schrieffer, who shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Robert Sanderson Mulliken, the 1966 Nobel laureate in Chemistry, taught at Florida State University.分享 1972 年诺贝尔物理学奖的约翰·施里弗，以及 1966 年诺贝尔化学奖得主罗伯特·桑德森·马利肯，都曾在佛罗里达州立大学任教。
• Konrad Bloch, who won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Medicine, was also among the university's Nobel laureate faculty.获得 1964 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖的康拉德·布洛赫，同样是该校诺贝尔奖得主教师中的一员。
• Faye Dunaway, the Academy Award-winning actress of Bonnie and Clyde and Network, and Burt Reynolds, the American actor and director, are alumni of Florida State University.凭《雌雄大盗》与《电视台风云》获奥斯卡奖的女演员费·唐娜薇，以及美国演员兼导演伯特·雷诺兹，都是佛罗里达州立大学的校友。
• Reubin Askew, a former Governor of Florida who also served as U.S. Trade Representative, and Charlie Crist, another former Florida governor, both graduated from Florida State University.曾任佛罗里达州州长与美国贸易代表的鲁宾·艾斯丘，以及另一位佛州前州长查理·克里斯特，均毕业于佛罗里达州立大学。
• Jim Morrison, the lead singer of the rock band the Doors, and Alan Ball, the film director and screenwriter known for American Beauty, are alumni of the university.摇滚乐队「大门」主唱吉姆·莫里森，以及因《美国丽人》闻名的导演兼编剧艾伦·鲍尔，都是该校校友。
• Doug Flutie, who won the Heisman Trophy in 1984 as Florida State's quarterback, and Bobby Bowden, the head football coach with the most career wins in Division I at his retirement, are associated with the university.1984 年以佛州州立四分卫身份赢得海斯曼奖的道格·弗鲁蒂，以及退役时保持一级联赛最多胜场纪录的橄榄球主教练鲍比·鲍登，都与该校紧密相关。
• Wang Chih-ming, later a member of Taiwan's Examination Yuan, and Jin Yimeng, the first Chinese-language female director whose film grossed over 100 million yuan, are among the university's alumni.后来出任台湾考试委员的王执明，以及首位票房过亿元人民币的华语女导演金依萌，都是该校校友。