UCF in the News

With Florida facing a critical shortage of nurses, the University of Central Florida celebrated the grand opening of its new Dr. Phillips Nursing Pavilion that will help strengthen the state’s health care workforce. The state-of-the-art building at UCF’s Academic Health Sciences Campus in Lake Nona features simulation labs that mirror real hospital settings and an expanded global simulation center.

It’s the end of move-in week at the University of Central Florida, and the campus is buzzing with energy. Thousands of students are settling into their dorms. his year, more than 7,500 students are living on campus. That number, combined with parents, guardians, and friends helping them move in, brings more than 30,000 people and 15,000 vehicles to campus during the August 9–17 move-in period.

UCF has announced that it has completely sold out its season tickets for the upcoming 2025-26 football season. This marks the fifth consecutive year that the program has sold out its season tickets and the sixth time since 2019. The news comes as new coach Scott Frost prepares to return to the sidelines for the first time since the 2017 season. Frost previously coached from 2016 to 2017, during which he led the Knights to a remarkable American Athletic Conference title.