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2001-02 Quick Facts
Final Enrollment


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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 2000-01   Degree Programs
  Female Male Total   Bachelor's 59
Associate's 90 43 133  Master's 52
Bachelor's 2,009 1,184 3,193  Specialist 3
Master's 454 322 776  Doctoral 17
Specialist 26 6 32     
Doctoral 9 25 34     
Total 2,5881,580 4,168     
 
 
Total Degrees Awarded through Summer 2001:  84,024
 
 
Tuition & Fees (per Credit Hour)
    Undergrad Graduate      
Florida Resident $89.96 $172.14     
Non-Resident $352.88 $579.30     



Headcount Enrollment, Fall 2001
  Full-time Part-time Total %  
Freshman 2,757 703 3,46015%  
Sophomore 1,382 521 1,903 8%  
Junior 2,724 2,471 5,195 22%  
Senior 2,750 3,478 6,228 26%  
2nd BA 171 713 884 4%  
Total Undergrad 9,784 7,88617,67074%  
Masters 979 1,476 2,455 10%  
Doctoral 218 197 415 2%  
Total Graduate 1,197 1,673 2,870 12% 
Unclassified 114 3,165 3,279 14%  
Total 11,095 12,72423,819100%  
 
 
Ethnicity
  Full-time Part-time Total %  
Asian 490 530 1,0204% 
Black 1,6982,011 3,70916% 
Hispanic 1,2541,518 2,77212% 
Native American 30 49 790.3% 
White 6,6148,183 14,79762% 
International 1,009 433 1,442 6% 
 
 
Gender
  Full-time Part-time Total %  
Female 6,4748,20814,68262% 
Male 4,6214,516 9,137 38% 



Residency

Florida Counties

Florida 21,81992% Broward 9,869
Non-Florida (U.S.) 1,3476%   Palm Beach 8,376
Non-U.S. 6532%   Miami-Dade 1,170
        All Others 2,404
 
 
Headcount Enrollment by Campus
  All Enrolled Primary %    
Boca Raton 16,88415,98967%    
Davie 5,538 4,33418%    
Tower 679 5482%    
Jupiter 2,095 1,656 7%    
Treasure Coast 758 5632%    
SeaTech 74 520.2%    
Commercial 83 68 0.3%    
Off-Campus 857 609 3%    


Headcount Enrollment by College
 Undergrad GraduateUnclassified Total%
Arch, Urban & Public Affairs 1,215 235 107 1,557 7%
Arts & Letters 2,589 318 920 3,827 16%
Business 5,177 642 390 6,209 26%
Education 2,237 854 1,114 4,205 18%
Engineering 1,618 312 173 2,103 9%
Honors College 249 0 0 249 1%
Liberal Arts 752 58 155 965 4%
Nursing 793 151 131 1,075 5%
Science 2,018 300 283 2,601 11%
Undecided1,022 06 1,028 4%
Total17,670 2,8703,279 23,819 100%


Top Ten Majors by Enrollment
Undergraduate     Graduate  
Elementary Education 1,723   Educational Leadership 242
Management 959   Business Admin: Bus Admin 151
Biological Sciences 933  Nursing 151
Accounting 785  Business Administration 124
Psychology 714  Counselor Education 118
Communication 702  Public Administration 117
Computer Science 657  Computer Science 113
Criminal Justice 535  Elementary Education 90
Finance 455  Curriculum & Instruction 88
Management Information Systems 440  English 81


Fall 2001 FTE       Average Age  
Undergraduate 12,780     Undergraduate 26
Graduate 1,936     Graduate 34
Total 14,715 Unclassified 36
 
 
Student Housing
  Female Male Total

%

 
On-Campus 1,139 853 1,992 8%  
Off-Campus 13,543 8,284 21,827 92%  
 
 
Admissions
    Applied AdmittedRegistered 
First-Time-In-College   6,289 4,4952,031 
Community College Transfers 2,2862,0951,507 
Other Undergraduate Transfers 2,7682,2261,364 
Graduate   2,233 1,371 882 
Total  13,576 10,1875,784 
 
 
First-Time-In-College Test Scores (Average)
ACT 21        
SAT          
   Verbal 514        
   Quantitative 523        
   Composite 1037        
High School GPA 3.4        
 
 
Alumni
United States 68,577 Florida 53,279
International 277 Broward 19,887
Unknown 3,853 Palm Beach 19,509
Total 72,707 Miami-Dade 2,937
St. Lucie 1,144


Athletics
Men's Sports Women's Sports    
Baseball Basketball FAU offers scholarships in sports which compete at the NCAA Division I level in the Atlantic Sun Conference.  
Basketball Cheer  
Cross Country Cross Country  
FootballDance  
Golf Golf  
Soccer Soccer  
Swimming Softball  
Tennis Swimming  
  Tennis  
  Track & Field  
  Volleyball    


Personnel
  Full-time Part-time Total  
Faculty 879 16 895 
Adjuncts 52 532 584 
A&P 551 11 562 
Staff 789 8571,646 
Total 2,2711,4163,687 
 
 
Faculty
  Female Male Total  
Professor 50 230 280 
Associate Prof 67 113 180 
Assistant Prof 107 92 199 
Instructor 48 34 82 
Lecturer 5 1 6 
Other 92 56 148 
Total 369526895