USF Polytechnic in Lakeland was integrated into the USF System, a multicampus arrangement with fiscally autonomous yet complementary campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Sarasota-Manatee, in October..
USF Polytechnic in Lakeland was integrated into the USF System, a multicampus arrangement with fiscally autonomous yet complementary campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Sarasota-Manatee, in October of 2004. The campus became its own university on April 20, 2012 when the Florida Senate passed SB-1994.