Florida Atlantic University

Florida Atlantic University is a public research university with its main campus in Boca Raton, Florida and satellite campuses in Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, and Fort Pierce. FAU opened in 1964 as the first public university in southeast Florida, offering only upper-division and graduate level courses. Since 2004, FAU has undertaken an effort to increase its academic and research standings while also evolving into a more traditional university.

About Florida Atlantic University in brief

Florida Atlantic University is a public research university with its main campus in Boca Raton, Florida and satellite campuses in Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, and Fort Pierce. FAU opened in 1964 as the first public university in southeast Florida, offering only upper-division and graduate level courses. Since 2004, FAU has undertaken an effort to increase its academic and research standings while also evolving into a more traditional university. The university has raised admissions standards, increased research funding, built new facilities, and established notable partnerships with major research institutions. Since its inception, Florida Atlantic has awarded more than 110,000 degrees to nearly 153,160 alumni. Florida Atlantic is classified among \”R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity\”. The university offers more than 170 undergraduate and graduate degree programs within its 10 colleges. The first degree awarded was an honorary doctorate given to President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 25, 1964, at the dedication and opening of the university. At the time of its opening, there were 350 employees, of which 120 were faculty. On-campus housing for students was first added in September 1965, when Algonquin Hall opened. In 1984 Florida Atlantic opened its doors to lower-division undergraduate students. In 1989, the Florida Legislature recognized demands for higher education in South Florida by designating Florida Atlantic as the lead state university serving Broward County. In 1994 Florida Atlantic established the Treasure Coast Campus to establish the late John MacArthur College of Medicine.

This would be the institution’s fifth campus. The University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine established a medical training program within the Charles E. Schmidt College of Biomedical Science in 2004. Following successive budgets deficits in 2007, the university delayed its own hospital indefinitely and established its own college of Medicine in 2010. The college of medicine was named for the late late John John MacArthur, the late president of Florida Atlantic University. As of 2018, enrollment has grown to over 30,000students representing 140 countries, 50 states, and the District of Columbia. The main campus houses the university’s honors college, FloridaAtlantic University’s College of Pharmacy. The school also has a community hospital on the main campus and a community center on the Boca Raton Community Hospital on the Boca Raton Campus. The campus was built on BocaRaton Army Airfield, a 1940s-era army airbase. The airbase was used for radar training, anti-submarine patrols along the coast, and as a stop-over point for planes being ferried to Africa and Europe via South America. By early 1947, the military decided to transfer future radar training operations to Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi. The departure of the air force in 1947 would leave the airfield essentially abandoned. The land was seized through eminent domain, leaving many Japanese-Americans little recourse in the early days of World War II. A majority of the land was acquired from Japanese-American farmers from the failing Yamato Colony.

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