A private, coeducational university resting in the shadow of Sleeping Giant Mountain, Quinnipiac offers graduate and undergraduate programs in a technology-rich environment. The campus is an architectural showcase of fine brickwork, with a soaring clock-tower above the library and buildings mostly constructed within the last 20 years.
Some details:
Campus
Academics
Student Body
Costs & Financial Aid
Student Life
Technology Resources
Athletics
Everything Else
Campus:
Location: Hamden, Conn., 90 minutes from New York City, two hours from Boston. See directions... See campus map...
Acres: 212, Mount Carmel Campus - see campus map; 234, York Hill Campus; 104, North Haven Campus
Buildings: 52, Mount Carmel Campus
Libraries: Arnold Bernhard Library, with 48,000 square feet and more than 600 wired Internet connections, plus wireless Internet access; law library, School of Law Center
Academics:
Undergraduate-degree programs: 52. More...
Special opportunities: Study abroad on land or spend a Semester at Sea; do summer research on campus. More opportunities...
Graduate-degree programs: 20, plus JD degree
Full-time faculty: 295
Student-to-faculty ratio: 16 to 1
Average class size: under 25
National recognition: Ranked among best universities offering undergraduate and master's degree programs in U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges" and The Princeton Review’s "The Best 361 Colleges"; graduate physician assistant program ranked 14 out of 141 programs nationally by U.S. News & World Report; graduate pathologists’ assistant program is the oldest and largest in the country.
Student Body:
Undergraduate enrollment: 5,600. More about who studies at QU...
Graduate enrollment: 1,900
School of Law enrollment: 550
Costs and Financial Aid:
Undergraduate costs 2009-10: Tuition and fees: $32,400 (12 to 16 credits per semester; additional credits $750 per credit); room and board for freshmen: $12,380; total: $44,780. More about paying for QU...
Quinnipiac grants and scholarships budget, 2007-2008: $42,068,181; more about financial aid...
Undergraduate students receiving financial aid, 2007-2008: 74 percent
Graduate tuition: $770 per credit or $690 per credit (during graduate clinical semesters)
Graduate fees: $35 per credit, not to exceed $315 semester student fee ($25 summer registration fee)
Student Life:
Student organizations: more than 70 clubs, plus the opportunity to create your own
Student leadership: opportunities to serve in student government, plus the Tiered Leadership Program, which focuses on managing complex issues
Greek life: three fraternities (Delta Tau Delta, Sigma Phi Epsilon and Tau Kappa Epsilon); five sororities (Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi, Kappa Alpha Theta, Phi Sigma Sigma, Sigma Gamma Rho)
Alternative spring break: Quinnipiac students have dedicated their week off to travel across the country to build houses for Habitat for Humanity and to travel to Barbados and Nicaragua for humanitarian missions.
Students living on campus: 4,000
Residence halls: four traditional, five suite-style, four apartment-style (13 total). More about residential life…
Technology Resources:
National recognition: Our student-centered technology has led PC magazine and the Princeton Review to rate Quinnipiac as number nine in 2007's Top 20 Wired Colleges.
Campus network: All campus buildings are networked, with wireless in public areas including residence halls, libraries and classrooms.
Laptop program: All students are required to use a university standard laptop and software.
Labs and studios:
- Fully digital, high definition production studio in the School of Communications
- High-tech simulated trading floor with 31 workstations in the Financial Technology Center
- State-of-the-art diagnostic imaging equipment in the School of Health Sciences
- Motional analysis laboratory for the athletic training/sports medicine program
- Computer graphics lab for the interactive digital design program
- Computer science lab for production of imbedded systems and robotics
Athletics:
NCAA: Division I
Sports: Men’s, 7; women’s,12. More about varsity athletics...
Intramural sports: Men’s,16; women’s, 14; coed, 14. More...
Everything Else:
President: John L. Lahey; more about our leadership...
Accreditations: New England Association of Schools and Colleges; Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (School of Business); American Bar Association (School of Law); National Council for Accreditation for Teacher Education (School of Education).
Mission and history: Founded in 1929; the University’s mission is to provide a supportive and stimulating environment for the intellectual and personal growth of its students. More...
Alumni: 25,000 undergraduate and graduate; 4,500 law. More about our alumni...
Endowment: $185 million. More about supporting QU...
School colors: Blue and gold
University name: "Quinnipiac" is derived from a native American word that some sources claim means "people from the long-water land." Other sources say it dervies from a word meaning "to make change in the direction of travel." Find out more...