Florida Southern College is a private college located in Lakeland, Florida, United States. It was selected by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top ten Southern Comprehensive Colleges-Bachelors, and by The Princeton Review as a Best Southeastern College, a Best Value College, and included in the Best 366 Colleges: 2008. Florida Southern is the home of the world’s largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture. The college was founded in Orlando in 1856, and moved to Leesburg in 1885 under the sponsorship of the United Methodist Church and was open to both... male and female students. It moved to Sutherland in 1901 and changed its name to Southern College. Due to fires in the early 1920s it was temporarily relocated to Clearwater Beach and then moved to Lakeland in 1922. In 1935 it was renamed Florida Southern College by the trustees. The present campus comprises some 64 buildings on 100 acres of land and is the home of the largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world.
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| Location: | Lakeland, Florida
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| Founded: | 1883 |
| Endowment: | $
55,850,429 |
| Colors: | Scarlet, White |