Hey what's up YouniversityTV, I'm Nicole Erin coming to you from Florida Gulf Coast University. I was just catching some rays on the school's manmade beach, filled with paddleboats, sun, sand, and surf. Well if you want some surf, you'll just have to travel 15 minutes to the coast. Pretty cool huh?

[ Music ] Florida Gulf Coast University is located in the heart of sunny Southwest Florida, Fort Meyers. One of the fastest growing areas in the state. Offering cultural and professional sporting events and some very beautiful beaches. FGCU is an environmental campus, set on 760 acres of protected wetlands.

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We have alligators on campus. Which is interesting because when international students come here they've never seen an alligator before. So it's interesting to see them when they come here. They're actually right in the lake over there too. It's just really cool to have that kind of a relationship with nature here on this campus.

FGCU has just over 10,000 students enrolled with over 8,000 undergrads. Students of color represent 17 percent of the student population with 39 percent men to 61 percent women. Students looking to attend Florida Gulf Coast need at least a 1320 SAT composite score, a 1618 composite and a recalculated GPA of 3.0. FGCU uses a sliding scale in which a lower GPA can be offset by a higher test score and vice versa. Students will pay about 4,000 dollars a year in tuition, fees, and residence. And non-resident students will pay closer to 16,500 dollars. Florida Gulf Coast offers 51 undergraduate and 31 graduate programs. Some favorites among students are management, biology, resort and hospitality, psychology, and communications.

There's a lot of native plants here and trees. We have this really awesome course, Southwest Florida and Environmental Biology. It's a science course, but you can take it even if you're not a science major. And it teaches you all around, all about the environment around here as well as other areas in Florida. So you really get to learn about the environment and your impact on it.

FGCU's professional golf management program is one of only two in the state of Florida, and one of only 20 in the United States, and it's accredited by the PGA.

[ Music ] The Luxford College of Business was featured in the Princeton Review's best 296 business schools, 2009 Edition.

If a student is interested in studying abroad, they definitely should come to our office. We will assist them through all levels of the study abroad research experience, identifying a program, a country, when they would like to study, helping them with the financial aspects to study abroad.

80 percent of Florida Gulf Coast faculty are full time instructors. The Florida Gulf Coast Eagles are members are the NCAA Division One, and the Atlantic Sun Conference. On campus housing at Florida Gulf Coast is made up of two sections, South Village, and North Plain Village which offers apartment style living.

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Housing is great. I have my own room. Everything, the whole, full size kitchen, living room area, with the refrigerator, microwave oven, dishwasher, free cable in my room, high-speed internet, so you can't beat that.

FGCU had over 120 clubs and organizations to get involved in. Including special interests, multi-cultural, service groups, Greek life, intramural sports, and waterfront activities.

We have canoes, and we have volleyball, and we have swimming pools, and we have kayaks, and we have sailboats and water skiing. And so we have a, a variety of sporting and fun activities students can get into to combine. Because they need to be well, rounded, right? It's not just all work. You have to also find the ability to socialize.

FGCU is going green. They're in the process of building a 16-acre solar energy farm. The two-megawatt farm will use solar energy and turn it in to useable electrical energy for the entire campus.

At FGCU, as, as compared to a lot of larger, more established universities, students go there and they, they're kind of forced to fit the mold of that university. It's, it's a little, it's opposite here. You know we bring students in and we, and we're molding the university to fit them. And we can do that because we're still so young.

We are open to having visitors at any time. So please come. Look around. Talk to people. Ask others who are here what it's like, and I think you'll get a very real answer.

So here, we are at the end of our campus tour and what better way to say goodbye than with the school mascot Azul the Eagle. Good-bye from Florida Gulf Coast University.

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