Florida Institute of Technology

Florida Institute of Technology is a top-tier, national, doctoral-granting research university located on Florida's "Space Coast," close enough to NASA's Kennedy Space Center that students have been watching rocket launches from campus since our founding in 1958.

At Florida Tech, engineering is more than a major—it's a way of life. Together, faculty and students in our College of Engineering and Science solve real-world problems through innovative and collaborative research, fieldwork and hands-on design projects.

The College of Engineering and Science has several programs accredited by ABET. These, and all of Florida Tech's degree programs, are focused, allowing students to take rigorous courses in their major as first-year students. Every Florida Tech engineering degree culminates with an immersive capstone experience called "Senior Design." For this yearlong project, students join interdisciplinary teams and work together to conceive, pitch, plan, design and present a project that tackles a complicated engineering challenge.

Senior Design work happens everywhere from labs to lounges, but no place as much as the L3Harris Student Design Center. This 11,500-square-foot high-bay project space facilitates the ideation, planning, designing, assembling and testing of capstone engineering projects. You have an idea? This is where it comes to life.

Students' Senior Design projects—which range from 3D human tissue printers to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) designed for search and rescue—are displayed and judged annually during the Northrop Grumman Engineering and Science Student Design Showcase. This exciting event attracts faculty and students, as well as local and national industry leaders.

Experiences like Senior Design are a primary reason Florida Tech graduates are widely recognized for engineering excellence and overall employability. In fact, the latest Global Employability University Ranking and Survey, which examines 1,000 universities and higher education institutions worldwide, ranked Florida Tech 18th in the U.S. and 77th in the world for graduate employability.

It's true. Top high-tech employers such as Northrop Grumman Corp., Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, L3Harris Technologies Inc., Embraer, NASA, Microsoft and Google actively recruit and employ Florida Tech graduates.

The success of Florida Tech's engineering alumni is one of the reasons the university has been lauded by Forbes as a "Best Value University" and by PayScale as a "Best Value College," placing Florida Tech 57th out of 921 private universities nationwide and 2nd in Florida.