Florida Atlantic University

DID YOU KNOW?

The Princeton Review named FAU to their 2009 list of the “Best Southeastern Colleges”

FAU's football team is the youngest in NCAA history to win back-to-back bowl games

234 new inventions have been created by FAU faculty

FAU College of Education alumni have been named “Florida Teacher of the Year” three times

The FAU Libraries Klezmer Company Orchestra is the only professional ensemble-in-residence at an
academic library in the U.S.

FAU created the nation's first ocean engineering program in 1965

Hoot/Wisdom Recordings, FAU's own record label, was the first student-run, full-service record label in the U.S.

FAU has the only Wall Street trading room simulator at a public university in Florida

FAU's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing offered Florida's first Ph.D. in nursing

More than 110,000 alumni have graduated from FAU since the university opened its doors in 1964

FAU has the largest university-based lifelong learning program in the U.S.

FAU was the site of the Miami Dolphins' first training facility

FAU is the most diverse public university in the state of Florida with minority and international students making
up 40 percent of the student body

47 percent of Treasure Coast campus classrooms and meeting spaces are equipped with state-of the art
distance learning equipment, easing the inter-campus commute and decreasing our environmental footprint

During the past four years, FAU's baseball program has had more than 20 players sign professional contracts

FAU Libraries Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of America Collection has the first printing of the Declaration of Independence printed in a newspaper, The Pennsylvania Evening Post, Vol. II., Philadelphia, 1776

Success magazine named FAU's Barry Kaye College of Business as one of America's “Top 50 Business Schools for Entrepreneurs”