I searched CC but couldn’t find much info (and the extremely common abbreviation didn’t help!).
Melbourne is a very nice location on the space coast. Merritt Island satellite beach etc. and to the north is Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral. Florida Institute of Tech is part of the growing number of Florida schools responding in a really positive manner to the demand in that region. Nice clean campus and newer facilities.
Plenty to do for an outdoorsy college age student. Golf surfing bicycling kayaks fishing etc. ice beaches and wonderfully pleasant weather over the winter.
D who attended a local school of choice with 100 percent college admissions for the senior class says several bright and accomplished students from her class are currently attending for non stem.
Anecdotal but she says they like it and feel like they are working hard too.
@psych_ assume you are interested in a psych major? If so, then Florida tech is great.
My daughter attended but she was in engineering. One of her best friends is in psych and just finished her masters at FIT. Forensic psych is popular. The Scott center for autism is really nice and provides a lot of research opportunities for the students.
FIT is very heavily engineering, and also is 70% male. I think the psych departments have more female students, or at least a more even split than the engineering departments. There are a lot of employment opportunities in the area and everyone who wanted a job, in the major or out of it, had one. Melbourne is nice and easy to get to from the Orlando, Daytona or Melbourne airports.
FIT doesn’t have a huge selection of electives in humanities or fine arts classes, but there are activities that the students can participate in like a pretty good theater group (a lot of faculty involved), an orchestra, a textile arts museum, a radio station, student publications, and lots of clubs. Foreign languages are limited to basic classes. Some student do major in humanities or more of a general studies program, but most are in STEM, psychology, or business so those are the classes the school offers.
It’s a STEM school first, and stereotypical in that way. The first time I was on campus I saw a guy heading to the library early on a Sunday morning carrying a 12 pack of Mountain Dew. Yep, an exciting day for an engineer in the library.