The University of West Florida affirms the traditional purposes of all universities while emphasizing its special responsibilities to the people of the geographic region it serves. UWF shares with all universities a commitment to preserve and perpetuate intellectual and cultural heritage, to discover and disseminate knowledge, to advance science, literature, and the arts, and to apply knowledge to the solutions of contemporary problems.

• The main campus of 1,600 acres of rolling hills and natural woodland along the Escambia River is ten miles north of downtown Pensacola.
  
• Its facilities have been designed to complement the natural beauty of this nature preserve.
  
• UWF also has waterfront property on Santa Rosa Island that is available for recreational, academic, and research pursuits.
  
• UWF currently enrolls more than 9,500 students in its College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business and College of Professional Studies.
  
• In 1979, the established three colleges -- Arts and Sciences, Business, and Education; in 1988, Computer Science, a department within the College of Business, was identified as the Division of Computer Science as a stand alone and was later incorporated into a fourth college.
  
• UWF has recently partnered with Pensacola Junior College and Chipola College in Mariana.
  
• In 2004 ground was broken on the new $20 million Health, Leisure and Sports Complex.