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Sacred Heart University
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Sacred Heart University, the second-largest Catholic university in New England, offers more than 40 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs on its main campus in Fairfield, Connecticut, and satellites in Connecticut, Luxembourg and Ireland. Approximately 5,800 students attend the University’s four colleges: Arts & Sciences; Education & Health Professions; University College; and the AACSB-accredited John F. Welch College of Business. The Princeton Review includes SHU in its “Best 366 Colleges: 2008,” U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges 2007” ranks SHU in the top tier of Master’s Universities in the North, and Intel rates it #11 among the nation’s most “unwired” campuses. SHU fields 32 division I athletic teams, and has an award-winning program of community service.
Founded in 1963 by the Most Reverend Walter W. Curtis, Bishop of Bridgeport, SHU was the first Catholic university in America to be led and staffed by lay people. Today, the University’s enrollment includes approximately 3,400 full-time undergraduates, 800 part-time undergraduates and 1,600 graduate students.
- The top four states that incoming freshmen come from are New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
- Nearly 50% of incoming freshmen rank in the top 25% of their graduating high school class.
- More than 27,000 degrees have been awarded to over 24,000 alumni.
- SHU alumni can be found in nearly every state in the U.S.
Faculty
- Nearly 80% of the University's full-time faculty have the highest degrees in their field.
- Student-to-Faculty Ratio: 12-to-1.
- The University is comprised of four distinct colleges: Arts & Sciences; Education & Health Professions; University College; and the AACSB-accredited John F. Welch College of Business, committed to educating students in the leadership tradition and legacy of Jack Welch.
- The University offers 43 degree programs on the associate's, bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels.
- SHU's Doctor of Physical Therapy program, launched in September 2004, is the first doctorate in the University's history and the first such curriculum in the state of Connecticut.
- All full-time undergraduates receive a laptop computer, which is replaced after two years. Students keep their laptop upon graduation.
- The University is fully wireless—indoors and out—ranking 11th in the nation on Intel's “Most Unwired College Campuses.”
- Nearly 800 students participate in the University's 32 Division I athletic teams.
- Nearly 90% of all full-time undergraduates receive financial aid, representing a University commitment of more than $18 million annually.
- More than 1,200 students and members of the faculty and staff volunteer in excess of 31,000 hours each year, largely within the City of Bridgeport.
- For an unprecedented 12 years in a row, Sacred Heart University earned recognition from the state of Connecticut for its volunteer service efforts.
- Seventy percent of full-time undergraduates reside in campus housing.
- The University has 10 on-campus residence halls.
- SHU is set on 65 acres in suburban Fairfield, Connecticut, and adjacent Bridgeport. It is 90 minutes from Manhattan and 150 minutes from Boston.
- The University maintains branch operations for working adults in Stamford, Derby and Griswold, Connecticut.
- SHU has the only American-accredited MBA program in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and a residential program in the Irish-speaking community of Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland.
- International experiences are available to SHU students through our varied study-abroad programs located at the American University of Rome, in Italy, the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle, Australia, and the University of Granada, in Spain.