Florida Atlantic University (FAU) is a student-centered public research university founded in 1964 and located in Boca Raton, Florida, serving more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The most popular undergraduate majors include elementary education, accounting, management, liberal arts and humanities, biology, and nursing, offered across more than 170 degree programs. The main campus is situated in suburban Boca Raton in South Florida's Palm Beach County, providing students with access to beaches, cultural attractions, and internship opportunities in the region's business centers. FAU is known for being the most ethnically and culturally diverse university in Florida's State University System and is rapidly developing as a center of cutting-edge research, particularly in the biomedical arena with its Schmidt College of Medicine.