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Florida International University, commonly referred to as FIU or Florida International, is a public research university located in metropolitan Miami, Florida, in the United States, with its main campus in University Park. Florida International University is a Comprehensive Doctoral Research University with very high research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation. Florida International University is also the youngest university to be awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter by the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the country's oldest academic honor society.
The university comprises 26 separate colleges and schools offering 205 programs of study with more than 280 majors. Florida International University is also the fifth-largest university in Florida and the thirteenth-largest university in the United States in terms of enrollment. For Fall 2007, total enrollment was 38,614 students and 2,974 full-time faculty with more than 150,500 alumni around the world.
