metropolitan area of 160,000 population in Daytona Beach, Florida where 2,745 students are enrolled.

They offer Bachelor of Arts and Science Degrees and Edwin Coffie, director of admissions, will be at this year's College Fair to share information with perspective college hopefuls from Bermuda.

Over 40 majors are under their seven academic divisions. The divisions are as follows: 1. Business 2. Science and Math 3. Humanities 4. Social Science 5. Education 6. Nursing 7. General Studies The financial breakdown is: Tuition per semester $ 4,494.00 Dormitory - $2,891.00 Total per year - $14,770.00 The college size is a 60 acre campus, twelve classroom buildings, a student union building, an infirmary, nine dormitories, a gym, an athletic weight room, library resource centre, and five administrative buildings.

Bethune-Cookman College offers the following scholarships: Presidential, Excelsior, and Academic Merit Scholarship.

They also offer Performance Scholarship and Athletic Scholarship.

Entrance requirements are a 2.25 grade point average. Students must also have taken the ACT or SAT Test.

You submit, along with their application and fee of $125.00, an official copy of your high school transcript and certificate of academic records.

An examination for each year of study from the first year of secondary school and from all post secondary level studies attempted are also required.

They have a host of extra-curricular clubs and organisations which include: general organisations, major area clubs, religious organisations, Greek fraternal/sororities, social and service organisations.

Additionally they also have intramural sports available and their campus newspaper, The Voice of the Wildcats.

History of the college. Bethune-Cookman College is a private, liberal arts, career-oriented, co-educational, residential institution, which operates on a semester calender and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church.

The college is a result of a merger between Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls (founded by Mary McLeod Bethune in 1904) and the Darnell Cookman Institute for Men ( founded in 1872).

It is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.