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Admissions Degrees Fall FTE Personnel
Alumni Enrollment by Campus Gender Residency
Athletics Enrollment by College Headcount Enrollment Top Ten Majors
Average Age Ethnicity  HousingTuition


Founded 1961
Type Public, Four-Year, Coeducational, Doctoral Degree Granting University
Accreditation Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
President Anthony James Catanese, Ph.D.
Calendar Semester


Degrees Conferred 1999-2000   Degree Programs
  Female Male Total   Bachelor's 58
Associate's 83 25 108  Master's 52
Bachelor's 2,029 1,164 3,194  Specialist 3
Master's 431 296 727  Doctoral 16
Specialist 10 3 13     
Doctoral 26 17 43     
Total 2,5791,506 4,085     
 
 
Total Degrees Awarded through Summer 2000:  78,583
 
 
Tuition & Fees (per Credit Hour)
    Undergrad Graduate      
Florida Resident $79.88 $156.35     
Non-Resident $324.47 $535.11     



Headcount Enrollment, Fall 2000
  Full-time Part-time Total %  
Freshman 2,497 506 3,00314%  
Sophomore 1,178 437 1,615 8%  
Junior 2,376 2,348 4,724 22%  
Senior 2,484 3,346 5,830 27%  
2nd BA 176 673 849 4%  
Total Undergrad 8,711 7,31016,02175%  
Masters 889 1,407 2,296 11%  
Doctoral 197 198 392 2%  
Total Graduate 1,086 1,602 2,688 13% 
Unclassified 85 2,672 2,757 13%  
Total 9,882 11,58421,466100%  
 
 
Ethnicity
  Full-time Part-time Total %  
Asian 411 470 8814% 
Black 1,3231,797 3,12015% 
Hispanic 1,0401,376 2,41611% 
Native American 38 46 840.4% 
White 6,1197,576 13,69564% 
International 951 319 1,270 6% 
 
 
Gender
  Full-time Part-time Total %  
Female 5,7357,365 13,10061% 
Male 4,1474,219 8,366 39% 



Residency

Florida Counties

Florida 19,81192% Broward 7,586
Non-Florida (U.S.) 1,1245%   Palm Beach 9,294
Non-U.S. 5313%   All Others 2,931
           
 
 
Headcount Enrollment by Campus
  All Enrolled Primary %    
Boca Raton 15,67614,81169%    
Davie 5,109 4,01119%    
Tower 565 4582%    
Jupiter 1,738 1,336 6%    
Treasure Coast 564 4562%    
SeaTech 73 620.3%    
Off-Campus 397 332 2%    


Headcount Enrollment by College
 Undergrad GraduateUnclassified Total%
Arch, Urban & Public Affairs 1,088 197 114 1,399 7%
Arts & Letters 2,422 301 813 3,536 16%
Business 4,749 584 371 5,704 27%
Education 2,100 861 748 3,709 17%
Engineering 1,390 301 141 1,832 9%
Honors College 151 0 0 151 1%
Liberal Arts 710 41 148 899 4%
Nursing 690 106 144 940 4%
Science 1,864 297 278 2,439 11%
Undecided 857 00 857 4%
Total16,021 2,6882,757 21,466 100%


Top Ten Majors by Enrollment
Undergraduate     Graduate  
Elementary Education 1,642   Business Administration 293
Biological Science 968   Educational Leadership 247
Management 806   Public Administration 123
Accounting 799   Elementary Education 118
Psychology 674   Counselor Education 112
Communication 634   Nursing 106
Computer Information Systems 607   Foundations of Education 101
Computer Science 564   Curriculum & Instruction 94
Criminal Justice 453   Computer Science 78
Finance 440   Exceptional Student Education 71


Fall 2000 FTE       Average Age  
Undergraduate 11,376     Undergraduate 26
Graduate 1,662     Graduate 34
Total 13,038 Unclassified 36
 
 
Student Housing
  Female Male Total

%

 
On-Campus 846 608 1,454 7%  
Off-Campus 12,254 7,758 20,012 93%  
 
 
Admissions
    Applied AdmittedRegistered 
First-Time-In-College   5,762 4,174 1,820  
Community College Transfers 2,260 2,077 1,510  
Other Undergraduate Transfers 2,252 1,800 1,085  
Graduate   2,072 1,206 721  
Total  12,346 9,257 5,136  
 
 
First-Time-In-College Test Scores (Average)
ACT 21        
SAT          
   Verbal 520        
   Quantitative 531        
   Composite 1051        
High School GPA 3.3        
 
 
Alumni
United States 65,074 Florida 50,433
International 347 Broward 18,896
Unknown 6,069 Palm Beach 18,335
Total 71,490 Miami-Dade 2,961
St. Lucie 1,122


Athletics
Men's Sports Women's Sports    
Baseball Basketball FAU offers scholarships in sports which compete at the NCAA Division I level in the Trans American Athletic Conference.  
Basketball Cross Country  
Cross Country Golf  
Football (2001)Soccer  
Golf Softball  
Soccer Swimming  
Swimming Tennis  
Tennis Track & Field  
  Volleyball  
     


Personnel
  Full-time Part-time Total  
Faculty 850 11 861  
Adjuncts 39 500 539  
A&P 492 11 503  
Staff 784 831 1,615  
Total 2,165 1,3533,518  
 
 
Faculty
  Female Male Total  
Professor 48 222 270  
Associate Prof 64 109 173  
Assistant Prof 112 104 216  
Instructor 49 37 86  
Lecturer 4 1 5  
Other 64 47 111  
Total 341 520 861