Florida Southern College is located on scenic Lake Hollingsworth in Lakeland, Florida, in Central Florida between Tampa and Orlando. Founded in 1883, Florida Southern College is a selective, private, United Methodist affiliated college with a superb liberal arts and sciences core, as well as outstanding professional programs in business, nursing, and education and pre-professional programs in dentistry, law, medicine, physical therapy, theology, and veterinary medicine. Florida Southern College offers outstanding opportunities for engaged learning, student-faculty collaborative research and performance, service learning, study abroad, and honors study, and exceptional student life programs, including a championship athletic program. Southern Comprehensive Colleges-Bachelors, and by The Princeton Review as a Best Southeastern College, a Best Value College, and included is the Best 366 Colleges: 2008, Included amongst the “366 Best Colleges” in the nation by The Princeton Review, Florida Southern College is also considered by U.S. News and World Report to be a Best Value College and ranks among the top five colleges in the South. Florida Southern College is also home to the largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world.