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The Florida Institute of Technology, also known as Florida Tech, specializes in being "high tech with a human touch." The school strives to serve its student body and surrounding communities by providing quality technical training, scholastic preparation and access to significant research resources and projects. Because Florida Tech values diversity, students, faculty and staff are encouraged to communicate openly with each other, ask questions, and try to understand the global societies that they intend to impact in the future.

In 1958, Brevard Engineering College was founded in Cape Canaveral to give continuing education services to the scientists, engineers and other employees at NASA. In 1961, the school moved to its present day location in Melbourne, FL, and five years later, its name was changed to Florida Institute of Technology to reflect its scientific and technological status. The school is located just 10 miles from the Atlantic Ocean and is situated on 130 acres that includes a botanical garden and research centers. Florida Tech is currently the only independent technological university in the southeast, and it has been recognized by U.S. News and World Report Barron’s Guide, and the Fiske Guide to Colleges. Over 5,000 students are enrolled at Florida Tech in undergraduate, graduate and extended campus programs.

Students at Florida Tech take courses in the College of Psychology and Liberal Arts, College of Aeronautics, College of Engineering, College of Business and College of Science. The University College operates graduate and certificate programs, as well as distance learning and professional learning programs. Specific majors offered range from Flight Training to Civil Engineering to Ocean Engineering to Computer Sciences to Psychology.

Florida Tech’s Panther Athletics sponsor 15 sports including men’s and women’s rowing, soccer, tennis, golf, basketball and more. Students can also choose to participate in a large variety of social, academic, spiritual and cultural organizations like the Campus Activities Board, College Players, InterFraternity Council, Paintball Club, Society of Physics Students, and others.