Florida Atlantic University
Higher EducationFlorida, United States5001-10000 Employees
Florida Atlantic University (FAU) is a higher education institution located in Boca Raton, Florida, with six campuses along Florida’s Southeast coast. It serves more than 32,000 undergraduate and graduate students and employs between 5,001 and 10,000 people. The university holds dual Carnegie Classification designations: R1 for Very High Research Spending and Doctorate Production, and Opportunity College and University. It is ranked among the Top 100 Public Universities by U.S. News & World Report and recognized as a Top 25 Best-In-Class College; Washington Monthly notes its role in upward mobility. In 2026, FAU invested $1 million each in an Artificial Intelligence Lab and an AI engineering lab, and researchers developed a machine-learning-based acoustic monitoring system for underwater recordings of whitespotted eagle rays; more information is available at https://fau.edu.