Probably one of the fastest growing university's I have ever stepped foot on. Sooo many students from so many backgrounds and the university does a great job with making diversity and inclusion and very immense part of the institution's culture. There's always activities for newcomers to feel at home. Games days are also awesome! Parking is the downside. Never anywhere to park when school is in session. I recommend coming early if you don't want to be miles away from campus. There is a shuttle for students to take when parking far, but who wants to have to do that? Check out the food court and gym! Those are my 2 favorite places. Gotta life Chick-fil-A's milkshakes! The bar on campus outside of the dining hall is also a cool place to grab a beer and sometimes there's live bands/entertainment. read more

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Love this campus, I usually use the library here to study for exams. But today I was able to visit the office to find out about their medical school program. YES!!! I'm actually considering finally going to medical school. I have the skills & I'm good at medicine, why not?! Right?... the staff was very helpful and informative. I'm definitely keeping this open as one of my options. The campus is in a perfect location and it's huge. Very very clean and welcoming. read more

Check out this beautiful campus with excellent opportunities to learn and succeed in this competitive world. The campus is easy to navigate, and the staff and faculty are friendly and helpful. read more

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I worked at FAU for almost 20 years. It was a very enjoyable work environment. I enjoyed working with students and administration. The university grew from 10000 students when I started in 1990 to over 30000 today. Since I first began working there it changed from a 2 year college to a full blown university complete with a medical school and D1 football team! It was fascinating to watch the changes over the years. I worked in the IT department. Computer systems had to keep up with this growth and we were constantly upgrading systems. Go Owls!!! read more

This school is the cause for my anxiety, depression, and self loathing. I've been a student here for now 4 years and these are the things that I've noticed. This school is great for graduate students but that is also the downside to this university. Under-grads are extremely neglected and The advisers are practically useless. Trusting advisers is the reason my degree had 2-3 extra years added on to it. A great example would be how my personal adviser took 3 weeks to respond to an urgent email and added a whole year to my degree because of that. In fact the only reason that they responded was because after sending my 3rd email trying to contact them I put them up in general advising and a previous adviser of mine saw it and personally contacted them. Another thing is that the professors (or at least all but 2 of the ones I've had) have been awful. I've had professors that had such heavy accents that not only can none of the students not understand them but even the teaching assistants who are working under them for the class wouldn't know what they were saying, leading to us students having to sit through a lecture that nobody under stands and then self teaching from scratch for the rest of the semester. The math department in particular is horrible, yes the school offers free math tutoring but after you reach higher level math classes the tutors don't know how to help you at all. keep in mind that I am not saying that the people are horrible people, many of the professors are nice but at the end of the day were paying them to teach us and if they aren't able to do a good job teaching why are we paying for it. Another really annoying issue on the topic of classes is that on top of paying to attend the classes this semester I've spent over 800 dollars on "mandatory" textbooks and the online codes to do the homeworks labs and quizzes, and i am taking the classes in person by the way. On top of that the school uses canvas for all the classes but most of the classes distribute all the assignments across at least 2 sources so when you want to check to see if you have any assignments due, its a scavenger hunt across the internet. Next and MOST importantly is that the university is so UN-organized that its comical. FAU is so focused on getting a larger student body that they keep accepting more and more students even though the school is not able to handle the sheer amount of people traffic that it has. There are students that are living in a hotel near campus because they school accepted them to live on campus but didn't have enough dorm rooms to house them. With that in mind the school is currently in the process of demoing one of the dorms as we speak reducing on campus living even further. Another dorm UVA is well over 100% capacity because they took all the single room suite units threw another bed in them and now for roughly the same price as it was to live in them as a single you have even less space and have to share it. On top of this the school has a horrible parking situation. The school does NOT have enough parking for the amount of students it has on campus during the day an what did the school do to counter it? they closed off one of the 3 parking garages and are in the process of converting it, and not converting it into a living space but converting it into a classroom, further reducing the parking available while allowing them to take in even more students. This is my condensed review of this university. read more