The University of North Alabama (UNA) is a coeducational college situated in Florence, Alabama, and the state's most established four-year state funded college. Involving a 130-section of land (0.5 km2) grounds in a private segment of Florence, UNA is situated inside of a four-city zone that likewise incorporates Tuscumbia, Sheffield and Muscle Shoals. The four urban communities involve a metropolitan range with a consolidated populace of 140,000 individuals.
The University of North Alabama, which commended its 175th commemoration in 2005, has experienced various far reaching changes over the span of its long history. Initially established as LaGrange College in 1830, it was restored in 1872 as the first state-upheld instructors school south of the Ohio River. After a year, it got to be one of the country's first coeducational schools.
Inside of the last half century, the University of North Alabama has formed into a thorough local college applying a noteworthy impact over the social, social and monetary existence of Northwest Alabama and giving instructive chances to understudies seeking after undergrad and graduate majors offered through the schools of Arts and Sciences, Business, Education and Nursing and Health.
UNA has solid duty to enhancing scholarly quality, an exertion maybe reflected in the 2008 version of U.S. News and World Report's America's Best Colleges, which positioned the college as a top level state funded college.
UNA additionally experienced proceeded with development in 2009, with 7,243 undergrad and graduate understudies selected for the fall semester.