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Florida International University is Miami-Dade County's first public, four-year university. One of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU has been locally and globally engaged for more than four decades finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time.

History & Growth
FIU opened for classes in 1972 with 5,667 students - the largest opening day enrollment in U.S. collegiate history. Today it has more than 39,000 students, 1,000+ full-time faculty, 7,000+ employees and more than 135,000 alumni. FIU is one of the 25 largest universities in the nation, based on enrollment.

Faculty
Ninety-six percent of the university's full-time faculty hold doctorates or the highest degree attainable in their field. (This statistic reflects tenured or tenure-seeking faculty.)

U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges" (2005-2011) ranked our undergraduate international business programs among the 15 best in the nation, three times in the top 10. In 2011, we ranked #15.

Bloomberg Businessweek's (2010) listed the Landon Undergraduate School of Business in its ranking of the best undergraduate business schools (2010).

Our undergraduate business programs have been ranked by Bloomberg Businessweek as #7 in the nation in sustainability (2010), in the top 25 in the areas of operations management and marketing (2010), in the top 50 in operations management and marketing (2011), #21 in international business (2011)) and #3 in the country in Return on Investment (2010).

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine (2010) ranked FIU as the number one degree producer for Hispanic students in business management, marketing and related support services.

Hispanic Business has consistently placed us among the top 10 business schools for Hispanics. In 2010, we were ranked #8..

The college was included in The Princeton Review's The Best 300 Business Schools: 2011 Edition. We were also listed in the 2010, 2009 and 2008 editions.