Florida Atlantic University

read moreSpanning 110 miles of Southeast Florida's coast, FAU fosters a vibrant culture that encourages ingenuity and independence. Determination runs deep at FAU, and students learn early that if they dream it - we've got the tools to help them achieve it. Leona Robinson, like many FAU students, is the first in her family to attend a four-year university. She credits FAU's Center for First-Generation Student Success with helping her family navigate college life. Now an upperclassman, she's giving back to other first-generation students as a campus leader.

read moreTo enhance interdisciplinary and collaborative research, FAU has established four university-wide research institutes focused on the university's strengths. These areas are dedicated to improving and addressing diseases of the brain, enhancing human health and quality of life, protecting the environment locally and globally, and using sensors to monitor the world around us. Two of the world's leading research organizations, the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience and The Scripps Research Institute, are located on the Jupiter campus and offer high school, undergraduate and graduate students transformational experiences not found anywhere else in the world.