University of North Florida is a public institution that was founded in 1965. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 14,398, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 1,300 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. University of North Florida's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities (South), 51.

The University of North Florida is located in Jacksonville, about 15 miles west of the Atlantic coastline and about 150 miles east of the state capital of Tallahassee.