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The Fisher School of Accounting is the academic accounting unit at the University Of Florida (UF). In 1977, the School of Accounting was established by the Board of Regents as a separate school within the College of Business, and was endowed in 1985 by Frederick Fisher. In the December 2004 issue of the ''Public Accounting Report'', the Fisher School of Accounting placed 16th among graduate accounting programs. For 2004, ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranked the graduate program 18th and the undergraduate program 10th. Fisher School of Accounting graduates' pass rate on the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Exam has been traditionally twice as high as the national average. The Fisher School of Accounting has approximately 720 undergraduate and 200 graduate students. Eighty-five percent of University of Florida students score above the national mean on standard entrance exams taken by college-bound students. On average, students admitted to the graduate accounting program score well above the 70th percentile on the Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT). Dr. Hadley Schaefer, Dr. Doug Snowball, Dr. Joel Demski, and Dr. Gary McGill, one current and three previous directors of Fisher School of Accounting, continue to lecture at the school. |