◗ 17 diverse departments

◗ Art Professor Blane de St. Croix, 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship Award winner

◗ Eminent Scholar Chairs in Holocaust Studies, the Humanities, Judaic Studies, the Performing Arts, and Philosophy

◗ Peace Studies program

◗ School of the Arts

◗ Hoot/Wisdom recording label

◗ School of Communication and Multimedia Studies

◗ Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies

◗ University Galleries

The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

◗ FAU’s largest college, serving about 7,000 students

◗ Eminent Scholar Chairs in International Business, Small Business Research and Turkish Business Studies

◗ School of Accounting consistently ranks in the top 10 nationally for its graduates ‘high passing rate’ on the national CPA exam

◗ Accounting alumnus Jeremy Hurwitch, 2009 Elijah Watt Sells Award winner for scoring in the top 10 of the 85,000 people who took the exam

◗ Stock exchange trading room simulator

◗ The Princeton Review has included FAU’s College of Business on its 2011 list of Best Business Schools.

◗ Named a Best Business School by The Princeton Review three years in a row

◗ Ranked in the top tier of the “Best Business Programs” listings in U.S. News & World Report

◗ Executive Education program nationally ranked by Business Week

The College of Business

◗ Based in downtown Fort Lauderdale

◗ Student-inspired Solar Roof Initiative one of the largest retro-fit projects of its kind in South Florida – energy savings fund an annual scholarship

◗ Promotes safe, healthy, sustainable communities through education, research and design

◗ Eminent Scholars in Growth Management & Development and Social Science

◗ School of Architecture

◗ School of Public Administration

◗ School of Urban and Regional Planning

◗ School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

◗ School of Social Work

◗ Public Ethics Academy

The College for Design and Social Inquiry

◗ Excellence and innovation in teacher preparation and education research

◗ Eminent Scholar Chair in Community Education

◗ Florida Institute for the Advancement of Teaching - a nationally recognized “earn while you learn” program

◗ Troops to Teachers – training for new careers

◗ Toppel Family Early Childhood Education Institute – discovering how the youngest children learn

◗ Pine Jog Environmental Education Center – 50 years of leadership in “green” education

◗ Communication Disorders Clinic – reaching out to the community with diagnostic services

◗ Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education – teaching the lessons of history to the next generation

◗ Center for Autism and Related Disabilities – a state-designated autism resource center

The College of Education

◗ Based in Engineering East, a living learning laboratory of the highest and best sustainability practices (platinum LEED standard)

◗ Home of the Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center

◗ Eminent Scholar Chair in Engineering

◗ Internationally known Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering – established in 1965, first in the U.S.

◗ SeaTech, site of federally funded R&D activities in acoustics, marine vehicles, hydrodynamics, clean energy generation, and more

◗ Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering

◗ Computer and Electrical Engineering

◗ Students compete in the International Human-Powered Submarine Races, the National Concrete Canoe Competition and the Formula SAE Collegiate Series

The College of Engineering and Computer Science

◗ Central point of contact for all graduate programs

◗ New graduate student orientation

◗ Teaching assistantship training

◗ Graduate student workshops

◗ Fellowships

◗ Graduate Student Association

◗ Graduate Student Research Day

◗ GradTalk, the Graduate College’s e-newsletter provides a wealth of information on events, programs and opportunities for graduate students

The Graduate College

◗ Established in 1999 as the first public honors college in the U.S. to be built from the ground up

◗ Located on the John D. MacArthur Campus at Jupiter

◗ Offers top-flight students the best of all worlds – an outstanding liberal arts and sciences education in a supportive, small-college setting, with the resources of a large, comprehensive university

◗ 1:10 faculty-student ratio

◗ Distinguished faculty known for mentorship of students

◗ Faculty-student research and publications

◗ Flagler Scholarship Program – full, four-year merit award that includes Outward Bound and Study Abroad components for outstanding student leaders

◗ Wilkes Medical Scholars Program - early admission to FAU’s medical education program, M.D. in 7 to 8 years

The Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College

◗ Established in 2010 by act of the Florida Legislature

◗ Preliminary accreditation granted in 2011 by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education

◗ Charter class of 64 students to enter in Fall 2011; total enrollment set at 256

◗ Innovative curriculum, featuring early and continuous community based clinical experiences and problem-based learning

◗ World-class faculty provides patient-focused approach

◗ Joint MD/PhD degree offered through partnership with the Kellogg School of Science and Technology, an affiliate of The Scripps Research Institute

◗ More than 250 local physicians are participating in the program

◗ Affiliated with 8 top-ranked hospitals in Broward and Palm Beach counties

◗ State-of-the-art Clinical Skills Simulation Center

The Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine

◗ Based in beautifully designed headquarters facility built to the LEED Gold Standard

◗ Internationally known for focus on Caring

◗ Two Eminent Scholar Chairs in Nursing

◗ Cutting-edge research on health disparities, aging, holistic health and care environments

◗ Innovative curriculum accessible through distance learning

◗ RN to BSN; BS/MS Dual Degree; BSN to PhD

◗ Doctor of Nursing Practice program fully accredited in 2010

◗ Louis and Anne Green Memory and Wellness Center – providing assistance to memory disorder patients and their caregivers

◗ Center of Innovation in School and Community Well Being – a community outreach program delivering critically important services to under-served populations

The Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing

◗ Providing the benefits of scientific understanding through teaching, research and service

◗ Undergraduate and graduate degree programs in biology, chemistry, geosciences, mathematics, physics and psychology

◗ Eminent Scholars in Science, Brain Sciences and Marine Biology

◗ Education and research partnerships with Scripps Florida, the Max Planck Florida Institute and the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies

◗ Newly introduced Professional Science Master’s Degrees in Medical Physics and Business Biotechnology

◗ Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences – an internationally recognized research center

◗ Florida Center for Environmental Studies – a statewide center based at FAU

◗ Home of the FAU Astronomical Observatory

The Charles E. SchmidtCollege of Science