Gainesville State College

Gainesville State College (Gainesville Junior College until 1987 and Gainesville College until 2005) opened in the fall of 1966 with an enrollment of 419 students, almost double the size predicted. The College began classes in Gainesville using the Civic Center and the First Baptist Church as campuses but was able to move into its own buildings for Winter Quarter, 1967. The College continued to enroll more students than had been projected by the long-range studies, necessitating a tripling of educational facilities during the College’s early years. In the fall of 2009, the enrollment of the College reached 8,800 with 6,597 of those students on the Gainesville campus.