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Awards and Recognition

ÎÞÂëרÇø ranked number 2 among more than 150 Peace Corps Prep partner universities. ÎÞÂëרÇø issued 58 Peace Corps Prep certificates to the graduating class of 2021. There were 250 students enrolled in ÎÞÂëרÇø’s Peace Corps Prep program during the 2020–21 academic year (2021).

ÎÞÂëרÇø was ranked No. 2 for total graduate volunteers and No. 25 among undergraduate volunteers for large schools. Since the agency’s founding in 1961, more than 545 alumni from ÎÞÂëרÇø have served abroad as Peace Corps volunteers (2020).

ÎÞÂëרÇø is designated by the Association for Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) as an Innovation & Economic Prosperity University, one of only 80 in the nation (2023).

Tampa and St. Petersburg campuses of the ÎÞÂëרÇø as two of 118 U.S. college and university campuses to receive the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement.