<p>I’m proud to say I attend Florida Atlantic University, more commonly known as FAU. Go Owls!!!</p>
<p>The 10 main points (as of Summer 2007):</p>
<p>1) Mid-major school founded in 1961 with a main campus in Boca Raton, Florida (USA). There are six “partner” campuses, the most notable being the FAU Honors College in Jupiter, Florida. All comments from here on will be in regard to the Boca campus unless otherwise noted.</p>
<p>2) Approximately 95,000 alumni (better known as Owl Country). Current population of approximately 20,000 students and growing, so it’s perfect for someone who wants a college between 5,000 people where there are too few people and 50,000 people, where there are too many people. Campus size is similarly adequate for people who don’t want to be overwhelmed – you can walk across campus in about twenty minutes. It’s also an EXTREMELY safe campus… you can walk around at midnight with absolutely no problems.</p>
<p>3) Out of those 20k students, approximately 2500 live on-campus with plans to add another 2000 by next Fall. Residential students love it here. We also have “living learning communities” where people with similar interests/majors (i.e. engineering, premed, women’s leadership) live and take classes together.</p>
<p>4) ~170 student organizations including 40 academic organizations, ~20 Greek organizations, 19 honor societies, 18 spiritual/religious organizations, 16 diversity appreciation organizations, 5 service organizations, 25 personal interest organizations, 12 club-sports and 7 student government agencies including student newspaper, radio and TV. The twelve club-sports include intramural sports on our new track and field and our renovated basketball arena, known as The Burrow.</p>
<p>5) From an athletics standpoint, we are a Division One school. Our baseball team has won a ridiculous amount of awards, our women’s softball and women’s swimming/diving won the Sun Belt Conference Championships last year, the men’s basketball team proceeded to the Sun Belt Conference Tournament last year, and the football team – only seven years old – is gaining a lot of attention while under the tutelage of football legend Howard Schnellenberger. Go Owls!</p>
<p>6) Students are a fair mix intellect-wise, very diverse in backgrounds (we were ranked in the Top 50 Most Diverse Schools in the Nation), and almost all of them are down-to-earth, sociable people. Flip flops and beach wear are common since we’re five minutes from the beach. We also have a volleyball pit in our housing quad.</p>
<p>7) Professors, by and large, are excellent. You get the occasional professor who is just there to do research but everyone is accessible and willing to help you succeed. I’ve had multiple professors really change my outlook on something, whether it was capitalism or Disney or the relationship between science and religion. Departments with difficult classes (math/chemistry/physics) have tutoring labs. We also have devoted writing centers for people who need help with essays.</p>
<p>8) We have a medical school (through a relationship with the University of Miami) and a nursing school. In the next five years, we will have a nine story teaching hospital on-campus to support both of those prorgams and the surrounding community.</p>
<p>9) FAU is primarily known for its psychology, business, nursing, and education programs. In fact, one of our psych professors is a cofounder/pioneer of the field of evolutionary psychology. </p>
<p>10) Long story short, FAU is an awesome school that’s quickly on the rise. The website is <a href=“http://www.fau.edu%5B/url%5D”>www.fau.edu</a>. Definitely check it out. Thank you!</p>
<p>…AND GO OWLS!!! RED AND BLUE! WOOT!</p>