FAMU positioned to tap new commuter markets

FAMU’s Crestview Education Center, which recently received the remaining money needed for its construction and operation costs, will permit the university to tap into a brand new commuter market.

Crestview is close to a number of higher education institutions in rural counties whose students may be eager to transfer into the health science programs FAMU will offer at its new Northwest Florida campus. They include: Northwest Florida State College (Niceville), Gulf Coast Community College (Panama City), Chipola Junior College (Marianna), and Troy University (Fort Walton Beach).

Additionally, Crestview is less than an hour away from Pensacola. That means the new FAMU campus could also attract students from Pensacola Junior College and graduates of the University of West Florida.

FAMU's Crestview Education Center will be an interdisciplinary campus. According to the authorizing legislation, the center will offer "instructional programs leading to the PharmD; B.S. or M.S. nursing; master of public health and doctorate of public health; and health care management, health administration, occupational therapy, and physical therapy."

FAMU will have the only doctor of pharmacy program in the entire region.

Pictured: Fort Walton Beach, Florida.