COLLEGE AND UNIT HIGHLIGHTS ATHLETICS
· 18 NCAA Division I sports, including seven men’s teams and eleven women’s teams
ranks the Chaplin School’s online · BestCollege.com
hospitality management bachelor’s program #1 in the U.S. (2018)
· In 2017, Panther Football earned its first bowl bid since
· #1 Best Online Hotel Management Program
Beach Volleyball is ranked #13 in the nation. · Women’s Swimming and Diving team has won four · Women’s
COLLEGE OF ARTS, SCIENCES & EDUCATION (CASE)
the 2011 season and its third overall for the program.
straight conference championships, from 2014 to 2017. In 2018, nine student-athletes were named to the 2018 College Swimming and Diving Coaches of Association of America Scholar All-America Team.
· In the 2018 NCAA annual Academic Progress Rate
report, all FIU teams finished above 930—the required score—with 15 scoring 960 or better (1,000 is a perfect score).
CHAPLIN SCHOOL OF HOSPITALITY & TOURISM MANAGEMENT
· #1 School in the U.S. in awarding hospitality
management bachelor’s degrees to Hispanics and African Americans (Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 2018)
named the Food Network & Cooking Channel · BizBash
South Beach Wine & Food Festival, started by the Chaplin School, as the #1 Food Industry Event in the U.S. (2018).
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· CASE is FIU’s largest college, with 17,945 students (Fall 2018).
· The STEM Transformation Institute’s nationally
recognized Learning Assistant peer-mentoring program is the largest of its kind in the country.
· The Center for Children and Families helps 300 children struggling with mental health concerns every summer and provides 3,000+ families with clinical services each year.
· FIU Tropics is home to one of the largest teams of tropical scientists in the country.
· CASE is home to the only underwater research laboratory in the world.
· FIU students and faculty spent 785 hours working
underwater on scientific research and training in 2017.
COLLEGE AND UNIT HIGHLIGHTS
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