What do students say about University College?
USF University College student Erik Richards poses at the McMurdo Station sign with the icebreaker Oden in the background.
"For economic and personal reasons my wife and I decided that our family would be best served for her to take a leave of absence from her job with Manatee County School District and for me to return to my job with Honeywell working down in Antarctica."
"I will be deploying to Australia in a few months and without such a program, continuing my degree work would be impossible."
Student Kelly Budnick benefits from the Osher Reentry Scholarship Program, which provides scholarship grants to assist non-traditional, reentry students with tuition expenses. Reentry students are defined as individuals who have experienced a cumulative gap in their education of five or more years and who now want to resume their undergraduate university studies to complete their first baccalaureate degree.