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Dining and Nightlife Resources: The Seven-County Region at a Glance: SEMINOLE COUNTY: VOLUSIA COUNTY: |
ADVANCED STUDY UNIVERSITIES: University of Central Florida The University of Central Florida is one of the country’s fastest growing universities in size and quality. With 45,000 students, UCF has become an academic and research leader in modeling and simulation, optics, computer science, nanotechnology, education and many other disciplines. Rollins College Rollins, recognized as the oldest accredited college in Florida, is a four year institution with five divisions: College of Arts and Sciences, Roy E. Crummer Graduate School of Business, Hamilton Holt School, Center for Lifelong Education and the Brevard campus in Melbourne, FL. Those centers of learning encompass traditional undergraduate, graduate business and continuing education programs. Rollins has more than 1400 daytime students and a student/faculty ratio of 12 to 1. Stetson University Florida’s first private university, Stetson was founded in 1883. Today, Stetson is non-sectarian, comprehensive university composed of individually strong undergraduate programs in various colleges and schools, and a selected group of academically distinctive graduate, professional and continuing education programs. Florida A&M University With its main campus in Tallahassee, Florida A&M is a comprehensive, public, coeducational, fully accredited university, offering a broad range of instruction, research and service programs at the undergraduate and professional levels. The College of Law received provisional approval in August 2004 from the American Bar Association. Florida State University College of Medicine As a community based medical school, the Florida State University College of Medicine provides third and fourth year clinical training at regional medical school campuses around the state through affiliations with local physician, ambulatory care facilities and hospitals, such as at the Regional Medical School Campus Orlando.
COMMUNITY COLLEGES: Lake – Sumter Community College Lake – Sumber contains three campuses, where more that 5,000 students are taught primarily in areas that fill local needs, such as health care and construction. Associate in arts degrees are offered, as are associate in applied sciences and associate of sciences degrees. In addition, other courses of study include applied technology, certificate programs and vocational certificate program. Seminole Community College Seminole is a comprehensive, accredited community college of approximately 30,000 students and 1385 full and part time faculty and staff members. Seminole provides opportunities to study in three distinct educational areas: college credit, vocational non-credit, and adult and continuing education. Valencia Community College Valencia is the third largest of Florida’s 28 community colleges, boasting and enrollment of more than 52,000 students annually at seven campuses and centers across Orange and Osceola counties. Valencia provides freshman and sophomore level coursework that leads to an associate of arts degree, along with 40 Associates of Arts pre majors and more than 80 Associate in Science and Applied Science degree and certificate programs that lead to immediate entry into the workforce. TECHNICAL SCHOOLS:
Full Sail Real World Education, an accredited college, is an educational leader for those pursuing a career in the entertainment industry. Alumni total more than 22,000, and there are more than 5,000 students from all 50 states and 37 countries worldwide. Lake Technical Center provides certificate programs, part time short term classes and online classes. Orange Technical Education Centers (O-TEC) is operated by Orange County Public Schools and consists of four centers: Mid-Florida Tech, Orlando Tech, Westside Tech and Winter Park Tech. Seminole Community College Technical Program, students are served annually in courses that include technical and industrial education, public service, business and health technologies. Technical Education Center of Osceola (TECO) provides initial training for new careers, supplemental training for those currently employed, continuing education in licensure programs and workplace programs for local business.
Note: Did you know? In March 2006, Florida’s Board of Governors approved the creation of a UCF medical college in southeast Orlando. The college could begin training students as early as 2008 and will ultimately produce 120 medical graduates annually. |
Orlando is a wonderful city. Sunshine, family fun, night life or the rest a relaxation you have longing for. Anything you want can be found in our little paradise. The problem is, you just moved here! How can you find all the wonderful little hideaways the Orlando area has to offer?
Well, we aren’t going to tell you that we know everything but as long time residents of the area we sure do have a list of places that we think are pretty special. And, just for reference, nobody has paid us to get on our list. These are just real places recommended by real people.
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