The Department of Psychology The most successful department in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science in winning external grants, the Department of Psychology consists of 29 research-active faculty and about 60 graduate students. The Department offers both the Master of Arts and the Doctor of Philosophy degrees in psychology, with specialization in cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, psychobiology, and social psychology. The Department of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University offers an ideal combination of academic rigor and comfortable lifestyle. The Department offers undergraduate and graduate training by world-renowned faculty in the areas of Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Psychobiology, and Social Psychology, in a semitropical setting that is impossible to find elsewhere in the United States. The department is located in Boca Raton, a suburban resort community on the Atlantic Ocean, halfway between Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale.