I don't know where you went when you visited the University of Florida, but they have recently made a $30 million renovation on their main library, and it is the most state of the art library in the state of Florida with over 4 million books. They have professors that have discovered the first vaccine for a virus, invented the most profitable polymer ever made by DuPont Corporation, mentored Nobel Prize Winners (2 Nobel Prize Winners came from UF as a matter of fact), and is soon to be in the top five public universities in the United States. People go to the University of Florida from all over the world to get a first class education, and for the value, they are giving Ivy League Schools a run for their money. I'd say this is a VERY impressive institution that is one of the leading research institutions in the U.S. with a $500 million a year research budget.