Florida International University

GENERAL FACTS
- FIU= Florida International University (staterecognized university in the Miami-Dade Count, Florida)

- motto: Spes Scienta Facultas

(hope) (knowledge) (opportuniy)

- annual budget: 1,7 billion $

- campus= old Tamiami-Airport (2.348 km²)

- 191 courses of study

HISTORY
- establishment: 1965

- establishment because of the population growth in Florida since the end of the Second World War

-> Congress of Florida decided to establish a new staterecognized university

- steady growth since establishment

- further opening of the Biscayne Bay Campus

- presidents: 1965-1976: Charles Perry

1976-1979: Harold Crosby

1979-1989: Gregory Baker Wolfe

1989-2009: Modesto A. Maidique

since 2009: Mark B. Rosenberg

FUN FACTS
- 2020 on the basis of the students: fourth-largest university in the USA

-> 58.836 students

-> 2.368 teachers

- central university library= Green Library

-> biggest building on the campus

-> one of the biggest libraries in the southeast of the USA

- part of the 12-Campus State University System Florida

- sport teams are called „Golden Panthers“

CAMPUS

GREEN LIBRARY

STUDENTS AT THE GRADUATION