Impacts on Other Florida State University Programs The College of Medicine has become an integral part of The Florida State University. Although it receives a separate state appropriation from the rest of the university and operates more independently than most colleges, its presence has positively impacted the quality of the undergraduate student body, the university’s expanding research reputation, and the linkages that FSU has across the state. Over the past several decades, FSU has increasingly become a “university of choice� for freshman applicants. Traditional measures of the quality of the incoming class, such as high grade point averages in high school and strong scores on college entrance exams (SAT and ACT), have seen increases over the period. While many factors have a role in these increases (e.g., growth in the state population, enrollment limitations, academic reputation of individual programs, and student life offerings), the medical school has had a major impact.
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