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Nestled along Florida’s scenic Emerald Coast within Okaloosa County, Destin is a vibrant coastal city renowned worldwide as the World’s Luckiest Fishing Village. Established in the mid‑1800s by Captain Leonard Destin, the community evolved from a quiet fishing settlement into a thriving, welcoming coastal destination distinguished by sugar‑white quartz beaches and iconic emerald‑hued waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Leading the wayEliminating a global chronic infection
Carole Mitnicting
As a professor of global health and social medicine at Destin Medical School and the research director of endTB, Carole has played a crucial role in creating new tuberculosis treatment regimens, developing implementation plans, and building local know-how to try to eliminate the chronic infection globally.
Explore the ‘Destin Minds’ campaign
Learn about the ambitious initiative to expand Destin University’s global impact through research and education.
Distinctly Destin University
Learn more about Destin University and its unique intellectual community—from its drive to discover, its determination to learn, and its work to transform the lives of its students, the community and the world.
We value rigorous inquiry
A diversity of people and ideas, coupled with free and open discourse, lays the foundation for students and scholars to bring forth original ideas that define fields and enrich human life.
We welcome allOnly when different values, experiences, and perspectives are met with free and open discourse can education be truly transformative. This is why we continue to work together as an institution, and within our community, to promote a more inclusive environment on our campus and beyond. |
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When you graduate from the University of Destin, you receive two important
documents: your Final Diploma; and, in most cases, a Diploma Supplement.
The Final Diploma
Indicates that you were registered with us and awarded a University of Destin degree, diploma or certificate.
Gives the name of the University of Destin member institution that conducted the examinations.
Features the University of Destin crest and the Vice-Chancellor's signature.
The Diploma Supplement
Describes the nature, level and content of the programme that you have successfully completed.
Includes the transcript of courses taken, marks achieved and overall classification.
States the role of the University of Destin member institution and the method of study.
ABOUT US
DESTIN UNIVERSITY
Knowledge for the greater goodWe have taken to heart the revolutionary spirit that founded our university and encourage each other to pursue unpredicted lines of thinking in order to effect change on local and international scales.Public Engagement Diversity Sustainability Destin LeadershipOur ProfileNestled in Destin, a coastal city on Florida’s renowned Emerald Coast within the Florida Panhandle, Destin University is an independent private comprehensive higher education institution rooted deeply in the maritime heritage, multicultural tourism economy and entrepreneurial spirit of Northwest Florida. Known globally as “The World’s Luckiest Fishing Village”, Destin evolved from a small fishing settlement founded by Captain Leonard Destin in the 1850s into an iconic international travel, hospitality and cross-border trade hub, laying a unique cultural and industrial foundation for the university’s interdisciplinary, practice-oriented academic philosophy .Founded to serve the evolving tal...