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Admission to Florida Atlantic University does not guarantee entrance to selective admissions majors in the College of Business. Your status is considered as a preliminary business major (pre-business). Please refer to the college's website at http://business.fau.edu/ugradadmissions for their undergraduate admissions policy and a list of business major programs.

If you have satisfied this criteria, you must submit an Application to Upper-Division to the College of Business to declare one of the selective admissions majors. Click here to view the online application.
Please note: The Economics (ECON) major, a social science program, is excluded from the above requirements.

Admission to Florida Atlantic University does not guarantee admission to the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing. Your status is considered a prerequisite to the nursing major (Pre-nursing). Nursing is a limited access program; therefore, you must submit an application to the College of Nursing. Applications to the College of Nursing should be completed by November 30th of the preceding year. The application can be found on-line at http://nursing.fau.edu/. As a Pre-nursing student, you must receive advisement in the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing before registering.

Admission to Florida Atlantic University does not guarantee admission to the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College. You must submit a supplement application with additional requirements. Please visit < http://honorscollege.fau.edufor more information about the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College.

Applications to the School of Architecture: Any prospective architecture student who is interested in applying for the lower division sequence (Architectural Design 1) or upper division sequence (Architectural Design 5-9) will need to fill out an additional application for the School of Architecture. Students must apply first to FAU using the Undergraduate admission application.  Please note that the School of Architecture has separate deadlines to submit their application from us in admissions.  Refer to their webpage for details /arch/applications.html. 

:PENG (pre-engineering) Effective Spring 2011

Admission to Florida Atlantic University does not guarantee admission to the College of Engineering and Computer Science, therefore your status is as a preliminary engineering major (pre-engineering). Please refer to the college's website at http://www.eng.fau.edu for detailed information on the admissions criteria.

All students interested in the Bachelor of Arts with Major in Communication Studies or the Bachelor of Arts with Major in Multimedia Studies must first apply to the corresponding pre- major. Specific requirements must be met before admission to the major. Please go to http://www.fau.edu/academic/registrar/catalogRevs/artsandletters.php#communication for additional information.

Please note that an audition on your principal instrument is required prior to admission into the Department of Music. For details regarding specific audition requirements for each instrument or for voice, please visit /music/aa_auditions.php. To schedule an audition, please send an email to music@fau.edu be sure to specify your instrument and the degree program in which you are interested.