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The School of Accounting at Florida Atlantic
University is part of the FAU College of Business.
FAU is a rapidly growing, comprehensive public
university with an enrollment of approximately 25,000
graduate and undergraduate students. Organizationally,
it is most notably characterized by what has come to be
known as its distributed campus structure in which the
university's programs and services are geographically
dispersed while being academically, technologically and
administratively linked. This structure has been
developed in order to best meet the institutional
mission which is to provide public access to higher
education along with the necessary support services to
an unusually large service area comprising six counties
spread over 100 miles along Florida's southeast coast.
Academically, the university is organized into eight
colleges: the College of Architecture, Urban and Public
Affairs; the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and
Letters; the College of Business; the College of
Education; the College of Engineering; the Harriet L.
Wilkes Honors College; the Christine E. Lynn College of
Nursing; the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science.
Through these colleges, FAU offers 76 undergraduate
majors, 68 masters programs and doctoral degrees in
Business Administration, Chemistry, Comparative Studies,
Complex Systems and Brain Science, Computer Engineering,
Computer Science, Curriculum and Instruction,
Educational Leadership, Electrical Engineering,
Exceptional Student Education, Mathematical Sciences,
Mechanical Engineering, Nursing, Ocean Engineering,
Physics and Psychology. Of additional particular
interest is a new program in medical sciences offered in
cooperation with the University of Miami School of
Medicine. Students in this program take their first two
years of medical school at FAU and complete their
clinical studies at Miami.
FAU's commitment to the educational needs of all
constituencies in its service area is evidenced by the
work of the Division of Open University and Continuing
Education (OUCE), and of the Lifelong Learning Society (LLS).
Through OUCE, in excess of 24,000 students take classes,
seminars and workshops in professional training, test
preparation, personal growth, languages, investment
management and many other pursuits. LLS, the largest
organization of its kind in the country, serves 22,000
intellectually vital individuals over the age of 60. They
take non-credit, personal enrichment courses in every
conceivable area of human inquiry, designed specifically
for this program and taught by regular FAU faculty. This
organization and its activities have been so successful
that active LLS chapters now exist on four FAU campuses.
Research and scholarship play a vital role in
fulfilling the mission of the university. In addition to
the many research projects and other creative endeavors
being conducted by individual faculty, more than 30
centers and institutes dedicated to specific disciplines
and areas of investigation are in operation. Some examples
in the fields of science and technology are the Center for
Complex Systems and Brain Sciences, the Center for
Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, the Florida Center
for Electronic Communication and the Institute for Ocean
Systems Engineering. Other areas of specialized pursuits
can be found in the Anthony James Catanese Center for
Environmental and Urban Solutions, the Stuart-James
Research Center with on-line access to business data
including census tracking information, the Carl DeSantis
Business and Economics Center for the Study and
Development of the Motion Picture and the Christine E.
Lynn Center for Caring.
Online Masters Degree in Accounting
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