UNIVERSITY FACILITIES
The university offers degree programs and continuing
education opportunities on four campuses in the Miami-
Fort Lauderdale metropolitan statistical area (MSA).
The Main Campus
The main campus in Davie, Florida, consists of
314
acres with general-purpose athletic fields and
NCAA Division II-qualifying soccer and baseball
fields. Facilities house the central administration
offices; the Health Professions Division; the Farquhar
College of Arts and Sciences; the Graduate School of
Humanities and Social Sciences; the Graduate School
of Computer and Information Sciences; the Shepard
Broad Law Center; the Center for Psychological
Studies; the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business
and Entrepreneurship; the Mailman Segal Center for
Human Development; the University School (grades
pre-k–12); the Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and
Information Technology Center; the Miami Dolphins
Training Facility; the Don Taft University Center; and
University Park Plaza.
The state-of-the-art, 366,000-square-foot University
Center features three NCAA competition courts
in the main arena, as well as two intramural courts,
group fitness and instruction rooms, cardio and weight
training areas, squash courts, a rock climbing wall, and
The Flight Deck.
The Performing and Visual Arts Wing of the Don Taft
University Center is managed by the Farquhar College
of Arts and Sciences. It houses the college’s Division of
Performing and Visual Arts and includes state-of-the-
art classrooms and facilities that support the division’s
art, dance, music, and theatre majors. The Performing
and Visual Arts Wing features
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a 230-seat performance theater with full staging
capacity for recitals, concerts, plays, films, and
lectures
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a 100-seat black box theater with flexible seating
arrangements for multiple staging options
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academic support facilities for the performing arts,
including professional-caliber scene and costume
shops; a scenic design lab; dance studios; choral
and instrumental rehearsal rooms; music practice
studios; and acoustic, percussion, and keyboard
technology labs
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visual arts classrooms that support painting, drawing,
ceramics, and graphic design
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a gallery for the display of private art collections,
photography, and student artwork
There is also a new outdoor aquatic center with an
Olympic-sized swimming pool and integrated dive well.
In addition, seven residence halls on the main campus
serve undergraduate, graduate, health professions,
and law students, with a capacity for housing
up to 1,400 students in approximately 207,000 square
feet of living space. The Commons, a 525-bed residence
hall opened its doors to students in August 2007.
There are also housing facilities specifically for graduate
students. The Rolling Hills Graduate Apartment
Complex can accommodate up to 373 graduate
students in fully furnished, single and quad rooms. On
the main campus, the Cultural Living Center has 135
furnished single and double apartments for upper-level
undergraduate and graduate students.
University Park Plaza, just to the south of the Health
Professions Division (HPD) complex has 173,000
square feet of space with, 60,000 square feet devoted
to university office and classroom space. This includes
the Lifelong Learning Institute, a 100-station
microcomputer laboratory, a videoconferencing room,
and the NSU Bookstore.
NSU’s Health Professions Division complex is located
at the northwest corner of the main campus. The
complex includes eight buildings totaling more than
540,000
square feet of space for administrative offices,
classrooms, laboratories, the Health Professions
Division Library, and a patient-services clinic. Also,
there is a 600,000-square-foot parking structure with
space for 2,000 vehicles.
In addition to the main campus, the university has
permanent facilities in Fort Lauderdale, Dania Beach,
and North Miami Beach. These locations are all within
20
miles of the main campus in Davie.
East Campus
The east campus is located in Fort Lauderdale,
six miles from the main campus. The campus is
located on 10 acres and has 8 buildings that provide
104,000
square feet of office and classroom space.
Facilities house the university’s financial operations,
the student educational center administration, the
university call center, the Transitional Use Program,
and Alumni Hall.
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