Florida Memorial University

Florida Memorial University is a private, Baptist-affiliated historically Black university in Miami Gardens, Florida. It offers undergraduate and graduate education to a diverse student body, with academic programs in the arts and sciences, business and aeronautical science, and education and social sciences. Its roots date to the Florida Baptist Institute, founded in Live Oak in 1879 by members of the Bethlehem Baptist Association. The institution’s history includes campuses in Jacksonville and St. Augustine before its move to South Florida in 1968. It adopted the Florida Memorial University name in 2004.