#2

FAU’s College of Business is among the 10 largest business schools in the nation and includes the Sport Management M.B.A. program, which is ranked 6th best worldwide and 5th in North America.

#3

Florida Atlantic University is a dynamic, national public research university with campuses and sites strategically located along a corridor of more than 100 miles of coastline between America’s Everglades and the Atlantic Ocean.

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Students can select a major from more than 180 degree programs, with courses taught by more than 1,000 full-time faculty members.

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FAU’s Diplomacy Program has earned top national awards for the past eight consecutive years and in 2014 the group finished 4th overall out of 350 schools at the National Model United Nations Competition.

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With approximately 50 percent of its student body of 30,000 classified as minority or international, FAU is the most diverse institution in Florida’s State University System.

#7

The College of Education oversees several award-winning schools including A.D. Henderson/FAU High, the Karen Slattery Educational Research Center for Child Development and Palm Pointe School at Tradition.

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A.D. Henderson/FAU High has received an “A” school grade rating for the past 15 consecutive years and is the No. 1 ranked Developmental Research School in Florida.

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The spring Class of 2015 had a recording-breaking 3,268 graduates, including FAU’s first M.D.s from the accredited Schmidt College of Medicine.

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The Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, located on the Jupiter campus, is the only full-immersion honors college in the nation that is part of a comprehensive research university.

#11

The Lifelong Learning Society serves approximately 25,000 patrons on the Boca Raton and Jupiter campuses.

#12

FAU Libraries is home to the Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection: Books as Aesthetic Objects, one of the nation’s most varied collections of hand-crafted books, and the Recorded Sound Archives featuring three major collections: Jazz, Judaic and Vintage.

#13

FAU students won the 2014 American Songwriting Award for Hip Hop and others have appeared on popular television shows America’s Got Talent and The X Factor.

#14

The Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing’s master’s program is ranked 72nd by U.S. News & World Report.

#15

Home of the nation’s first ocean engineering program and the Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center, FAU is working to harness the ocean’s vast energy potential.

#16

FAU’s student-run recording label Hoot/Wisdom Recordings, has released 24 albums. Hoot/Wisdom is among more than 300 student clubs and organizations.

#17

The Research Park at Florida Atlantic University is home to 18 companies that employee nearly 1,800 people at an average salary of $87,077. The park’s regional economic impact is $755.3 million annually.

#18

More than 450 student-athletes compete in 21 NCAA intercollegiate sports in Conference USA.

#19

FAU has been named “Best for Vets” by Military Times for four consecutive years.

#20

FAU is one of the first universities in the country to offer Zipcars, a car-sharing service with 24/7 access to vehicles parked on the Boca Raton campus.