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• FAU established the nation’s first ocean engineering degree program in 1965and now conducts millions of dollars of research annually for the U.S. Navyon autonomous underwater vehicles and other security-related projects.• FAU’s School of Accounting is consistently ranked in the top 10 in theUnited States for its high pass rate on the national CPA exam.• FAU’s recording label, Hoot/Wisdom, helps students and faculty explore theworld of commercial music through the production and release of their ownprojects.• Success magazine named FAU’s Barry Kaye College of Business as one ofAmerica’s “Top 50 Business Schools for Entrepreneurs.”• FAU’s Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing maintains the nation’s onlyCaring Archive, which houses scholarly works that explore the role of caringin nursing education and research.• Providing an MBA education for place-bound students, FAU’s Virtual MBAhas been included in the U.S. News and World Report ranking of the nation’s25 best accredited online graduate programs.• FAU is home for the Florida Center for Environmental Studies, whichprovides a clearing house for environmental information collected byresearchers from all of Florida’s state universities.• On the forefront of biomedical research and education, FAU’s Center forComplex Systems and Brain Sciences granted the nation’s first Ph.D. incomplex systems and brain sciences.• FAU has Florida’s only accredited School of Architecture located in adowntown district — allowing the students and faculty to use the city asan urban laboratory.• As a testament to excellent teacher training, FAU College of Educationalumni have been named “Florida Teacher of the Year” three times.• FAU’s Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College offers a highly competitive, allhonors,liberal arts education for the price of public university tuition.• FAU was Florida’s first public university to open a stock exchangetrading room simulator where students participate in realtimetrading scenarios.16