Campus / Center Locations and Highlights
College total acreage: 546
Niceville Campus | Fort Walton Beach Campus
Centers in Crestview, DeFuniak Springs, Military Centers, South Walton
Niceville Campus
263 acre main campus
100 College Boulevard
Niceville, FL 32578
Campus Highlights:
- Niceville campus - Houses the college administration & the majority of facilities, staff and programs.
- Mattie Kelly Fine & Performing Arts Center - a 120,000 square-foot complex which hosts an annual series of national touring Broadway shows in a 1,650 seat main theater, and also houses a 195-seat theater, two art galleries which host traveling exhibits and house the college’s multi-million-dollar permanent art collection, a music wing, an art wing, a visual arts building and a 3,000 capacity amphitheater. In 1988 the college established the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, the region’s premiere professional orchestra that performs at the arts center.
- Community Services complex (under construction, completion 2010) houses a 2,400 seat sports arena and facilities for wellness/fitness, ROTC and other instructional programs. Entire complex is hardened to withstand 195-mph winds with the arena designed to serve as a public hurricane shelter. The complex includes an adjacent Okaloosa County building that serves as the 24/7 county 911 dispatch center, houses the county’s Public Safety administration offices and activates as the county-wide EOC (emergency operations center) in times of emergency (college classrooms at facility are designed to provide sleeping & relief space for emergency workers).
- Student Services building, currently in the design phase.
- Robert E. Greene, Jr Science Building (53,431 sf; completed 2006)
- Learning Resources Center (51,284 sf; completed 2003).
- Child Development Center – Nationally accredited by NAEYC
- The championship athletic programs for women and men at NWFSC are supported by state-of-the-art facilities and an active booster club.
- Nursing & Allied Health facilities for Registered Nursing (RN), Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), Dental Assisting, and Radiography
- Collegiate High School, an innovative public charter school that allows 260 motivated 10th, 11th & 12th grade students to earn a two-year college degree & a high school diploma simultaneously. Among the top high schools in Florida, the CHS concept originated at NWFSC & has been replicated at four other state colleges.
- Observatory
Fort Walton Beach Campus
156 acre joint campus* with the Univ. of West Florida
*Note: NWFSC is the owner/operator of this campus; UWF’s main campus is in Pensacola.
(See FWB Campus Photo Gallery)
1170 Martin Luther Kind, Jr. Blvd.
Fort Walton Beach, FL 32547
Campus Highlights:
- Graduate level library – operated by UWF
- 8 campus buildings (completed 1992-94)
- NWFSC community partnerships at FWB Campus:
Okaloosa Economic Development Council & various economic development activities such as the Technology Coast Manufacturing & Engineering Network - Portion of campus property leased by NWFSC to Children in Crisis Center (non-profit group home facility for children in foster care)
Robert L. F. Sikes Education Center, Crestview
5.3 acres
805 E. James Lee Blvd.
Crestview, FL
Crestview is one of the fastest growing communities in Northwest Florida. A branch of Florida A&M University’s Pharmacy School is in the active planning stage for location in Crestview. The NWFSC Sikes Center in Crestview houses 11 classrooms and 2 computer labs; facilities for the college’s Even Start Family Literacy grant program; and houses a collection of memorabilia from the late U.S. Congressman Robert L.F. Sikes.
Chautauqua Center, DeFuniak Springs
89.5 acres
908 U.S. Highway 90 West
DeFuniak Springs, FL
The NWFSC Chautauqua Center in north Walton County serves nearly 1,500 residents annually with everything from adult basic education to college credit programs. The center’s director also serves as director of the college’s extensive two-county effort in adult basic education, GED, and ESOL, which serves more than 1,700 persons annually with free programs for adults who do not have a high school diploma, including GED instruction on-site at local correctional facilities. Community partnerships housed at the center include a Head Start child development program and the community offices for the area’s state representative.
Military Centers
Eglin Air Force Base NWFSC Center
Education Services Bldg. 251, Room 127
(850) 678-1717 or 729-5343
Hurlburt Field NWFSC Center
Education Services Building 90220
(850) 884-6296 or 729-5345
Okaloosa County supports three military installations: Eglin Air Force Base, Hurlburt Field and Duke Field, collectively on the largest base in the world and the largest military installation in the Department of Defense (more than 724 square miles of land area and more than 123,000 square miles of water ranges in the Gulf of Mexico). Currently, the bases host 25,000 active-duty military personnel and 12,113 civilian jobs. In 2008, the military bases had a 1.7 billion dollar area economic impact. The bases also support a large retired military population of approximately 41,000. The college operates full time educational centers within the base education facilities at both Eglin and Hurlburt.
South Walton Center, Santa Rosa Beach
30 acres
109 Greenway Trail (off Hwy 331 South)
(850) 267-9901
Opening in January 2010, the NWFSC South Walton Center is located adjacent to South Walton High School, the South Walton Library and the Walton County Government Center. With about 11,000 square feet of administrative and classroom space, the facility also houses the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance, an environmental organization operated under the auspices of NWFSC.
