Florida Atlantic University was authorised by the Florida legislature on July 15, 1961, and opened in 1964 with 867 students, offering only upper-division and graduate courses. Its main campus in Boca Raton occupies the former Boca Raton Army Airfield, and other campuses are in Jupiter, Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale and Fort Pierce. Lower-division undergraduates were first admitted in 1984, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution joined in 2007 and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine was created in 2010. FAU has ten colleges, over 180 degree programmes, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College and an ocean engineering programme dating to 1965. It is classified as a Carnegie R1 research university. The Owls compete in NCAA Division I FBS in The American, which they joined in 2023, and have fielded athletics since 1979. Fall 2025 enrollment was about 32,185 students, including roughly 25,600 undergraduates.
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777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton, Florida, United States
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