Did you know that Florida State University was at one time a women's college? While it had existed for years before in many different forms, the university would become known as the Florida State College for Women in 1909, when “the Buckman Act reorganized Florida's six colleges into three institutions segregated by gender and race” in 1905. By the year 1933, “the Florida State College for Women was the third-largest women's college in the U.S.”*  It wouldn't be until 1947 that the school would become known as Florida State University and return to a  co-educational university, largely due to the influx of returning soldiers looking to take advantage of the G.I. Bill.