Florida Atlantic University, also referred to as FAU or Florida Atlantic, is a public, coeducational, research university located in Boca Raton, Florida, United States. The university has six satellite campuses located in the Florida cities of Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, Port St. Lucie, and in Fort Pierce at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution.[3] Florida Atlantic serves a seven-county region that has a populace of more than three million people and spans more than 100 miles (160 km) of Florida's eastern coastline.

Florida Atlantic University is a public university committed to providing access to a broad array of higher educational opportunities through its network of seven campuses strategically situated along 150 miles of Florida's southeastern coastline. FAU has achieved special distinction in the areas of ocean engineering, biomedical research, nursing, accounting, entrepreneurship, arts and humanities, complex systems and brain sciences, honors education, Judaic and Holocaust studies, stochastics, and computer science and engineering. FAU is the home of one of the nation's most cost-effective and innovative medical education programs, in partnership with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

ACCREDITATION / RECOGNITION

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)

Other Accreditations

Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE); Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International); Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); American Chemical Society (ACS); American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology; Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP); Council on Rehabilitation Education (CORE); Council on Social Work Education (CSWE); National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB); National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), Commission on Accreditation; National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation; National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE); Planning Accreditation Board (PAB)