Florida Atlantic University

honestly fau has given me sum issues
why make ur mascot so hot if no one can date it? bf and i got into a rly big fight b/​c i wanted 2 go 2 the football game but owlsy was gonna be there… bf said that if i go it is over. i said y? he said i know how u feel about owlsy i can’t help that i bleed navy and red

Great place to study. Hopefull they will renovate the dated library. It looks like you are caught in a time wrap.

This university is the ultimate package in many, many ways. This review will encompass each aspect of the school that is important to a prospective student or anyone interested in FAU for any reason.
Setting: The Boca Raton FAU campus (the main campus), is a bunch of ultra-​modern student dorms, generously sized classroom buildings, cafeterias, and of course a football stadium, nestled in between a grid of luscious, shining palm trees, flowers and well-​kept patches of Florida grass. Walking and studying on campus provides a beautiful and nurturing setting, which is helpful for any student. It allows this level of comfort, even though you are aware of being in a highly-​pressured, academic environment. This campus is a joy to navigate through on a daily basis.
Academics: Academically, FAU is definitely a challenge. I have not yet come across a class that did not require some amount of intensive studying every week. There are many doctorate professors of whom many have graduate level TA’s standing by their sides, aiding in creating test questions and grading assignments. Each class has a serious curriculum, which is intended to convey critical information about the course that will actually be relevant for everyday living. There are a plethora of highly-​skilled, expert professors at FAU, so the learning experience is a satisfying one.
What’s nice about this university is that there is a wide variety of classes for each major. A student who has a yearning for discovering everything about their major, especially juniors and up, have a real opportunity to select major-​specific classes to learn from. Registration becomes tight rather quickly as the student population is about 32,000 at this moment, so it is important to get an early jump on class registration before it is too late.
Transportation/​Parking: This is the most highlighted issue at FAU. It’s probably the most criticized aspect of the school (at least at the Boca campus). There are multiple parking garages on campus, but these get full really quickly, especially if you are coming to campus between 10 AM and 4 PM. A lot of students are forced to spot people walking to their cars and follow them to quickly take up their spot. There are many large parking lots scattered around campus as well, but during peak class hours, the situation is the same. Students usually have to get lucky, there won’t simply be open spots waiting for people to claim them. As a student here, it’s always a good idea to show up 30 mins or more before class in order to ensure you will have time for parking and walking to class. The parking could be better, and I’d expect that within the next couple of years that FAU will build an additional parking garage to reduce the congestion.
FAU is a considerably diverse school. Students from all over the world can be found on campus at all times. The sub-​tropical, Floridian setting is unique for any university and so many different types of collegiate students are attracted to FAU for this reason. I enjoy studying here, and the future can be bright for any student attending this school. Your output depends on your input.
Go Owls!

Beautiful campus, but the parking is awful. Monday-​Friday it takes 30 minutes of parking lot hoping until you finally find a spot opening up. They always make sure to have their parking enforcement officers walking around giving tickets to cars parked without a permit, but what’s the point of having a parking permit if there is never anywhere to park? Half the time I think it’d be better to just pay the parking meter since those spots always seem to be open. Stop trying to get more money out of college students, who barely have any to start with, by sending out cronies to collect in the form of a parking ticket. As a student, I’m more concerned about the hundreds of cars driving around constantly looking for spots and as a result show up late to class, than I am about the student who forgot to renew their permit from last year or was forced to park in a non blue permit spot because there is no where else open. Serious issue that needs to be solved. Pay for a new parking garage instead of the salaries of the the guys going around trying to take money from students.

What kind of school hires a man like this? Shame on you FAU. You should be ashamed…
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I am an out of state student attending FAU. I am from Massachusetts and did not know too much about FAU or Boca Raton as a town before attending. First things first, after a year and one semester I am transferring home, like anything FAU has its good and bad.
I’ll start off with the good, I do not like going anywhere by myself but I have never felt any safer than on this campus. They offer a service called the Night Owl, which is a golf cart that will bring you anywhere on campus after 7pm. The most dangerous thing on the Boca Raton campus is probably the wildlife, which as long as you don’t bother it, it won’t bother you. It is actually really cool to look at as you walk to and from campus. The campus itself is also beautiful and very well kept. The recreation center/​gym is very nice the equipment is constantly cleaned and the group classes are fun too. I have been to the pool a few times and it is very clean and enjoyable in the Florida heat. Football games are a good time, the stadium is fun because the student body is very involved even though the school is smaller. I’ve had a mix of professors but like any college you’ll have good and bad.
This school serves a decent amount of students even though it is one of the smaller Florida schools. I have had a lot of trouble with advising and creating the right schedule to graduate on time. I had four advisors until I had one that finally put me in classes that I needed. Several of the previous advisors didn’t care what classes you took as long as you were full-​time and the school was still making their money. Many of the class sizes were well over 100 – 200 students. With a class this large it is hard to receive an individualized relationship with professors.
Boca Raton is a very safe and quiet town. It is about a five to ten minute drive to the beach, a restaurant, and the grocery store. There are a lot of things to do in the area and Fort Lauderdale is a quick drive if you’re into night life. Boca Raton is a very wealthy neighborhood and it is beautiful to look at. Overall, the school and area is nice but it is not for me. If you don’t mind large class sizes it will be a good fit for you. Find the right advising and develop a good relationship with your professors and you will be more successful.

I am an international transfer student and this university is on my nerves. They say they support internationally students mentally but all they have given me is stress!! I am just one semester into it! They have the most confusing advisors. They first gave me a degree audit which was satisfactory to me but then they changed it again without my knowledge. They kind of play around for money!! I recommend don’t go-​to this university international students !!

My best friend attends school here.
Seems like a pretty safe campus. cops are crawling all over this place.
I have one thing to say, they should RALLY keep their library open later… ESPECIALLY on the weekends!

Getting my degree and teacher certification through FAU’s education program was one of the best decisions I ever made. Their education department has a rigorous curriculum and inspiring teachers.

I am currently attending FAU as a graduate student in their 23 month Professional Master of Business Administration program, or as they like to call it, PMBA. I started classes back in January of 2015, and so far, so good! The PMBA program is geared specifically to students that work full time. Classes are Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:15pm — 10:00pm, 2 classes per 10 week terms.
As a student in the PMBA program, you never have to worry about anything. They call this perk their «VIP Concierge Service.» PMBA students have a staff of advisors that cater just to them. We never have to leave the Office Depot Center for Executive Education for anything. In fact I have been going here for over 6 months and I have yet to go anywhere on campus except for the OD Center!
Before classes start, the PMBA advisors and staff hand us all books necessary– this means no trips to the book store and no having to stand in lines! The advisors also register you in all necessary classes– no waiting in front of your computer trying to sign up for that class you need! There is even a financial aid advisor on staff that keeps you up to date with all important fin-​aid info. We also get «food» and drinks provided for us each evening.
My only fault with the program is the «food.» We have to come to class at dinner time, and all they provide us with are snacks, tea, coffee, sodas, juice and water. By snacks I mean bags of chips (lays, Sun Chips, Doritos, etc), cookies (oreos, and other processed sandwich cookies), fruit snacks, nuts, sunflower seeds, and other items that are by no means healthy or satisfying. Sometimes they have apples and bananas, but usually it’s just the awful snacks. I don’t understand why they have to be so cheap in this aspect. We pay a ton of money in tuition, so I don’t get why they can’t have sandwiches or salads every night. I’m personally trying to watch my carb and sugar intake, so I usually just get a coffee and a bag of sunflower seeds for dinner (how depressing!).
Overall I am really enjoying the program. FAU is no UF (Where I did my Undergrad, Go Gators!), however, I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking to go back to school for their MBA.

#klezmercompanyorchestra great performance Glad to be back in the Student Union at FAU-​Florida Atlantic University to see the Klezmer Company Orchestra with 1000 other of my closest friends. Great performance. Great venue. We parked far away but glad we can walk and get in more exercise. Check out a couple 20 sec video clips at the hashtag I included in this review.

Cool school. I have no complaints. Prices are reasonable and having payment plans for fall and spring term is awesome. I’m almost done with my
First year. If you can take Dr. Jakubow’s psych class and professor zuppardo’s enc 1101 or 1102. Looking forward to what else this school has in store for me.

Avoid it if you can. So many disappointing experiences with the staff and their tuition fees, for example: They make you pay a transportation access fees even when you are an online student (you are paying an online learning fee already). It doesn’t make any sense to me. I was there in person just to see advisors and other departments –once or twice per semester. So a fee for «transportation access» for an online student is just unfair.
When you are there in orientation they say they will work with you and that your goal is their goal, etc, but once school started It was a different story. I personally never found any staff member that truly cares or listens to your concerns once you are a student. I felt like a ping pong ball — going from department to department to resolve an issue. Somebody even told me…“Check on the website” on one occasion… Very disappointing experience. So just don’t go by their Florida, nice weather location and their building.
My experience with professors wasn’t good either. example: I was at the hospital and missed a deadline… my professor was so cold and made me feel like I was out of place just for asking to turn in my paper late. (I had hospital discharge papers, etc– so I didn’t miss the deadline for a cold or a pink eye! Go to FIU if you can. You’ll be happier.

Awesome!
This university has really surprised me. Our son started going here in the fall and we couldn’t be happier. Getting him set up in the dorm was a breeze. On move in day the dorm had many staffers available to help with moving, checking out hand trucks, providing water and just saying welcome. My son’s room was very clean. We discovered the cable connector was bent on the wall and they sent a handyman up right way to fix it.
We took a tour of the cafeteria, student union, and Football Stadium which was pretty damn cool. We also bought season tickets for the football games and so far we have had a blast tailgating and watching the games.
It’s been almost two months since my son started going to school here and he loves it. He’s made a lot of new friends, he loves his classes and I have not heard one complaint from him. Now I just hope he stays for 4 years and doesn’t leave for another school. We are keeping our fingers crossed. Owls up!

I attended this school as a graduate student. I can’t speak for undergraduate student life. but my program, the women, gender and sexuality studies masters, was excellent. i had wonderful teachers and very interesting classes. the class options were small, b/​c of the size of the program. but overall i really loved it.

I attended during a summer home from FSU and then went on to attend graduate school and teach at this campus situated in exquisite Boca Raton. It has been exciting to witness the University’s tremendous growth over the years. The dorms here are modern and very nice. Fresh, clean buildings, competitive programs (including a new medical school) and overall a beautiful place to earn a degree and work on your tan simultaneously. Go Owls!

You should be a self-​motivated student to go to this school; the introductory classes will often have hundreds of students and the guidance counselors can be rude and sometimes ignorant of basic requirements (especially if you want to go to grad school). They will tell you to take a class, and ask you the next semester why you took it. This is the reason I took both Calculus 1 and Methods of Calculus. Meet the advisors, get their stamps, and nod at their advice, but don’t actually take it, or argue with them. You need to map your own plan.
Also, the registrar is extremely disorganized – right when I filed my application for graduation, they told me I never took Chem 2 lab! Crazy, because it is a prereq for all the higher-​level classes I took! I actually had to find five year old graded labs and submit a petition in order to graduate. Unfortunately, they took too long to approve it and I had to wait another six months to graduate. To date, that was one of the most frustrating things ever in my life! I could not graduate, and find a job, nor did I have any more classes left! I hated FAU so much at that time.
However, since then, FAU has improved dramatically. They have added all these things in just the last ten years:
–Einstein Bagels, Wendy’s, Quiznos, Papa John’s, Salsaritas, Starbucks
–Dunkin Donuts in the library
–Jewish Center (24 hour computer lab and study center)
–A 60+ million dollar stadium
–Shuttles for parking
–A super fancy gym
–Nicer dorms (i still remember the cement floors and cramped rooms of Timucua and Algonquin)
–Second campus for UMiami medical school
–Home of new FAU medical school
There are several things I don’t like about FAU, such as the lack of student unity, registrar disorganization, the parking issues, the fact that it is not very walkable, the lack of «hangout» places, enormous classes, and some of the faculty. It’s very easy to get isolated and fail if you are not an outgoing, motivated person. If you are pre-​professional, it can be hard to compete, given that there are hundreds of pre-​meds/​pre-​dents/​pre-​pharm students in the same class.
However, if you have a good idea of the path you want to take, FAU is a solid, very affordable option. Many of my friends have become accountants, engineers, nurses, and doctors with their FAU degrees at a cost which is one of the lowest in the US.

Talk about a University going through a real transition. This institute has grown and improved so much over the past 20 years. Growth alone over the past two decades has seen the number of buildings easily doubled; And the campus is no longer the eyesore it once was.
More recently, the completion of the new (on-​campus) Owl Football Stadium really makes it complete (since the team previously had to play down in Fort Lauderdale at an old, dated stadium). They also have new dorms and specialty buildings like innovation village and the new engineering building; plus many more planned buildings to be constructed over the coming years.
In additional to the campus changes, FAU was the location of one of the presidential debates back in 2008. They have made many strides bringing a medical program to the main campus (I believe it is currently being done jointly with another University). They have also made an alliance with Scripps Research Institute. All these factors have done so much to attract many potential students and the admissions requirements have become considerably more difficult over the past few years.
Although I bleed Orange & Blue, just this once I will say… GO OWLS

I am about to graduate, and I am honestly going to miss it. They put in a lot brand new dorms, and they are building a football stadium. I am sad that I will miss the new and improved FAU since I am done.
Go Owls!

I LOVE FAU!!!
FAU is my second home! I’ve been educated, housed and employed here!!! There is truly something for everyone!
The key to truly enjoying any thing in life is to make the most of it! Get involved! Join a club and make an impact!!!
Great food options on campus, great new facilities *you check out our wellness center and our soon to be stadium*!
Have met some of the best people in my world on these 850+ acres!
Experience it for yourself! Goooooooo Owls!!!