NSU Oceanographic Center NSU Oceanographic Center

Southern Regional Electronic Campus


Welcome to the Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center's web page for the Southern Regional Electronic Campus (SREC). NSU is a dynamic, not-for-profit independent institution dedicated to providing high quality education programs of distinction from pre-school through the professional and doctoral levels. The university offers a total of 84 degree programs, 23 in undergraduate disciplines and 61 in graduate and professional disciplines. Located on a beautiful 232-acre campus in Fort Lauderdale, NSU has approximately 23,000 students and is the largest independent institution of higher education in Florida. It ranks twenty-fifth in the size of its graduate programs among the 1,560 universities in the United States with graduate programs and tenth among private universities.

The Mission of the Oceanographic Center is to carry out innovative, basic, and applied research and to provide high-quality, graduate and undergraduate education in a broad range of marine-science and related disciplines. The Center also serves as a community resource for information, research and education on oceanographic and environmental issues.

Online programs involve utilizing web pages to access course materials, announcements, the electronic library, and other information, plus a range of activities that facilitate frequent student-faculty and student-student interaction. Online activities may include forums using threaded bulletin boards, chatrooms and email. In addition, the university provides a system that enables the student to submit assignments online and to receive his/her professor's reviews.