My Owl pride is showing today as I congratulate FAU’s College of Business and Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing on their ascent up the U.S. News & World Report rankings of the nation’s best online graduate programs. The 2016 rankings show our College of Business advancing 15 spots to No. 26 and our College of Nursing listed at No. 42, making it one of the top two online graduate nursing programs offered by Florida’s public universities.

These excellent rankings represent a tremendous amount of effective work by the deans, administrators, faculty and staff of both colleges. They show how serious we are about offering top-quality online graduate programs to mid-career professionals and others who want to pursue advanced degrees without traveling to campus. 

Get used to the sound of the word “best” because all of us at FAU are going to be hearing it a lot in the years just ahead. Go, Online Owls!