The Dorothy F. Schmidt
College of Arts and Letters
◗ 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 College of Business
◗ 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 for Design and
Social Inquiry
◗ 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 of Education
◗ 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 Engineering
and Computer Science
◗ 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 HumanPowered Submarine Races, the National
Concrete Canoe Competition and the Formula
SAE Collegiate Series
The Graduate College
◗ 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 Harriet L. Wilkes
Honors 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 Charles E. Schmidt
College of Medicine
◗ 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 Christine E. Lynn
College of Nursing
◗ 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 underserved populations
The Charles E. Schmidt
College of Science
◗ 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