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The Fisher School of Accounting is the academic accounting unit at the University of Florida . In 1977, the School of Accounting was established by the Florida Board of Regents as a separate school within the Warrington College of Business, and was endowed in 1985 by Frederick Fisher. Dr. John... Simmons was the founding Director of the Fisher School. The school first conferred degrees in Accounting in December 1978. The Fisher School of Accounting is often ranked in the top 10 accounting programs within public universities. The 2006 and 2005 rankings of U.S. News and World Report rank both the undergraduate and graduate programs #7 among public universities. Fisher School of Accounting graduates' pass rate on the Certified Public Accountant Exam has been traditionally twice as high as the national average. The Fisher School of Accounting has approximately 720 undergraduate and 200 graduate students. Eighty-five percent of University of Florida students score above the national mean on standard entrance exams taken by college-bound students.
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Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968. The consolidation gave Jacksonville its... great size and placed most of its metropolitan population within the city limits; with a population of 821,784, it is the most populous city proper in Florida and the Southeast, and the eleventh most populous in the United States. Jacksonville is the principal city in the Greater Jacksonville Metropolitan Area, with a population of 1,345,596 in 2010. Jacksonville is in the First Coast region of northeast Florida and is centered on the banks of the St. Johns River, about 25 miles south of the Georgia state line and about 340 miles north of Miami. The Jacksonville Beaches communities are along the adjacent Atlantic coast. The area was originally inhabited by the Timucua people, and in 1564 was the site of the French colony of Fort Caroline, one of the earliest European settlements in what is now the continental United States.
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