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Florida International is a public research university located in
Miami, Florida.
The university boasts the record level of enrollment for a first year
university, enrolling over 5,000 students in 1972 during its first semester of
classes. Today, there are over
40,000 students that attend FIU.
Despite its size, the university is the most selective of the universities in
the State University System of Florida, with a slightly lower acceptance rate
than the University of Florida.
The school also leads the United States in awarding bachelor’s
and master’s degrees to Hispanic students.
FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission. Sponsored
research funding (grants and contracts) from external sources for the
year 2008-2009 totaled approximately $101 million. With more than
135,000 alumni,
Golden Panthers constitute the fastest-growing university alumni
group in Miami-Dade County. With nearly 8,000 students graduating
annually from FIU, the university confers approximately half of all
degrees now awarded by universities in Miami-Dade County.
There are more than 200 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs offered at
Florida
International
University.
The colleges and schools at FIU are the College of Architecture and Arts,
which includes the School of Music; the College of Arts and Sciences, which
includes the School of Environment and Society, the School of Integrated Life
Sciences, and the School of International & Public Affairs; the College of
Business Administration, which includes the School of Accounting, the Chapman
Graduate School of Business, and the Landon Undergraduate School of Business;
the College of Education; the College of Engineering and Computing, which
includes the School of Computing and Information Sciences; the Honors College;
the College of Law; the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, the School of
Hospitality and Tourism Management; the School of Journalism and Mass
Communication; the Robert Stempel College of
Public Health and Social Work, which includes the School of Social Work; the
University College, which serves
students in continuing education.
The U.S. News & World Report named the undergraduate and graduate
international business programs at
Florida
International
University
amongst the top 25 in the nation.
FIU is the youngest university to have been awarded a chapter of
Phi Beta
Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most distinguished academic honor
society.
Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine,
South Florida’s only public medical school,
welcomed its inaugural class of
43 students in August, while more than 3,000 students applied
for the 43 seats.
Nearly half of all
teachers employed in the Miami-Dade County Public School System, the nation's
fourth largest public school system, have an FIU degree.
Graduates of FIU’s
College of Law
led the state with their pass rate on the February 2009 Florida Bar Exam.
Florida
International
University
graduates that have taken the Florida Bar Exam continually pass the exam at a
higher rate than the state average.
In 2009, FIU graduates passed the exam at approximately a 16% higher rate than
the average pass rate in the state.
Florida International’s creative writing graduate Dennis Lehane recently had his
novel Shutter
Island
adapted to film by director Martin Scorsese with actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
Spider-Man director Sam Raimi
was recently got tapped to film the big screen adaptation of Lehane’s historical
novel The Given Day.
Lehane also wrote the book
Mystic
River, which was adapted for the screen by
director Clint Eastwood and won acting Oscars for Tim Robbins and Sean Penn.
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