FCS Team of the Day #34 - Florida A&M

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Florida A & M Rattlers
Public
Founded 1889
Tallahassee, Florida
Undergraduates: 12,400

MEAC
Colors: Orange and Green
Bragg Memorial Stadium (25,000)
2008 Record: 9-3, 5-3

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, commonly known as Florida A&M or FAMU, is a historically black university located in Tallahassee, Florida, USA, the state capital, and is one of eleven institutions in Florida's State University System. Florida A&M is the only publicly funded historical black college or university in the state of Florida.

Florida A&M University student enrollment population consists primarily of undergraduates. The University offers 62 bachelor's degrees in 103 majors/tracks. 36 master's degrees with 56 majors/tracks are offered within eleven of the University's 13 schools and colleges. Two professional degrees and eleven PhD degree programs are offered. FAMU is noted for its School of Business & Industry (SBI) and College of Pharmacy. The School of Architecture is also highly acclaimed.

Most recently Florida A&M has become the number-one college for African Americans in the country according to Black Enterprise Magazine's September 2006 issue. This ranking is due mostly to the high graduation rate, as well as the high academic and social atmosphere. FAMU is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund. In the fall of 1997, FAMU was selected as the TIME Magazine-Princeton Review "College of the Year" and was cited in 1999 by Black Issues in Higher Education for awarding more baccalaureate degrees to African-Americans than any institutions in the nation. A perennial leader in the recruitment of National Achievement Scholars (NAS), FAMU tied Harvard in fall 2000 and was No.1 in the nation in recruiting NAS in 1992, 1995, and 1997.

FAMU has eight fully-funded endowed eminent scholars chairs including two in School of Journalism and Graphic Communications, four in the School of Business & Industry, one in the College of Education, one in Arts and Sciences, and one in its School of Pharmacy, which also has the largest enrollment of African-American Ph.D. students in the country.

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FAMU is also the first NCAA Division I-AA football champion, winning the inaugural championship in 1978.

[OL FU]

and has the most liked and disliked football uniforms in FCS

[AshevilleApp]

And ran Appalachian off of Kidd-Brewer field in the first round of the 1999 playoffs. But I'm over that now.