University of North Florida

The University of North Florida is Jacksonville’s public state university on the Southside, at 1 UNF Drive in the 32224 zip code. This Stay Safe Jax page is the main campus, not a bus stop, not a satellite classroom, and not “North florida university” on Southside Boulevard. An earlier Places dump pinned a University of North Florida label with 4.4 from only 8 reviews and typed it as a bus stop. Eight reviews on a well-known university is a failed match, so that card is rejected. The listing used here is University of North Florida (UNF) at 1 UNF Drive, 4.5 from 626 Google reviews. Those numbers are a stored snapshot, not a live campus poll. U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 Best Colleges guide ranked UNF among national universities at No. 222, the seventh straight year in that national list, according to coverage of the September 2025 release. The Jacksonville Business Journal reported on September 1, 2026, that fall enrollment had reached about 18,900 as the university worked through a presidential search. That follows a fall 2025 profile of roughly 17,600 students. Stay Safe Jax is not copying unofficial student-review sites such as Niche into the headline. The Southside campus is known as much for woods as for classrooms. Visit Jacksonville lists the Robert W. Loftin Nature Trails at 1 South UNF Drive, more than 500 acres open daily from sunrise to sunset, with picnic areas and a Red Maple Boardwalk that the visitor bureau marks as wheelchair accessible. Hodges Stadium on campus has hosted track meets and visiting teams, according to Visit Jacksonville’s sports guide. Those public trail hours are not the same as registrar or advising office hours, which this page does not invent. Google’s 4.5 from 626 reviews is a large enough sample for a campus pin and reads as ordinary-positive, not a warning. There is no current sourced safety scandal attached here. Open flags stay at 0. Students and visitors should treat this listing as the main UNF campus in Southside Jacksonville: public university, stored Google 4.5, nature trails on the same drive, and a rejected 8-review transit pin. It is not Jacksonville University in Arlington and not Florida State College at Jacksonville’s downtown campus.