Florida Atlantic University

Florida Atlantic University (also referred to as FAU or Florida Atlantic) is a public university located in Boca Raton, Florida, with five satellite campuses located in the cities of Florida from Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, and in Fort Pierce at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution.

Florida Atlantic was opened in 1964 as the first public university in southeast Florida, offers a program level only upper-division and graduate. Early registration is only 867 students, an increase in 1984 when the university admitted students of lower-division first. In 2012, enrollment has grown to more than 30,000 students representing 140 countries, 50 states and the District of Colombia. Since its inception, Florida Atlantic has awarded more than 110,000 degrees to nearly 105,000 alumni.

Florida Atlantic belongs to the 12-campus State University System of Florida and serves South Florida, which has a population of more than five million people and covers more than 100 miles (160 km) of coastline. Florida Atlantic University is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with high research activity. The University offers more than 180 undergraduate and graduate programs in 10 colleges in addition to a professional degree from the College of Medicine. Program cover art and the study of humanities, science, medicine, nursing, accounting, business, education, public administration, social work, architecture, engineering, and computer science.

In recent years, FAU has made efforts to improve the academic and research standings while also evolving into a more traditional university. The university has raised admission standards, increased research funding, built new facilities, and form a famous partnership with major research institutions. Changes include a stadium on campus, additional on-campus housing, and the establishment of the College of Medicine in 2010.

For 2013, Florida Atlantic University is classified as a second-tier university with this report ranked US News & World of "Best Colleges." News US rank universities into one of two levels, with the highest, based on how they compare with other universities in peer assessment, retention rates, student selectivity, resources, faculty, financial resources, graduation rates, and alumni giving , This university as one of the 146 "Best Southeastern High" in the United States by the Princeton Review. The Review also recognized business program by naming the FAU College of Business to their list of "Best 296 Business Schools" for 2009. For 2011, Florida Atlantic was ranked 249. in a country with Washington Monthly magazine ranked based on the following three criteria: "how well universities do as an engine of social mobility (ideally helping the poor become rich than the very rich to get very, very rich), how well the university is not in fostering scientific research and humanistic, and how well the university promotes ethic of service to the state. The University was also ranked 28 in the US and fourth in Florida by The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education magazine for awarding undergraduate degrees to 738 Hispanic students during the 2006-2007 academic year.