QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY
Hamden, Connecticut
The College
Quinnipiac offers four-year and graduate-level degree programs leading to careers in health sciences, business, communications, natural sciences, education, liberal arts, and law. A curriculum that combines a career focus with a globally oriented liberal arts background prepares graduates for the future, whether they start their careers right after commencement or opt to pursue advanced study.
Quinnipiac is coeducational and nonsectarian and currently enrolls 5,091 full-time undergraduates, 1,150 full-time graduates, and 979 part-time students in its undergraduate, graduate, professional, and continuing education programs. Less than 35 percent of the students are residents of Connecticut; the rest represent all regions of the United States and many other countries. The emphasis at Quinnipiac is on community. Students, faculty members, and staff members interact both in and out of the classroom and office. Quinnipiac is big enough to sustain a wide variety of people and programs but small enough to keep students from getting lost in the shuffle. Life on campus emphasizes students' personal, as well as academic, growth. The approximately sixty-five student organizations and extracurricular activities, including intramural and intercollegiate (NCAA Division I) athletics, give students a chance to exercise their talents, their muscles, and their leadership skills. The University has a student newspaper and an FM radio station (WQAQ) and intercollegiate teams in men's baseball, basketball, cross-country, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, and track and in women's basketball, cross-country, field hockey, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, tennis, track, and volleyball.
Quinnipiac's 500-acre main campus has fifty buildings. In addition to the academic facilities described in the section on the next page, the University has twenty-five residence halls of different styles, all with functional furnishings and decor. The residence halls house 3,500 men and women, about 70 percent of the undergraduate population. All students have in-room access to e-mail and the campus network. Housing on campus is guaranteed for three years. The Carl Hansen Student Centercontaining recreational facilities, meeting rooms, and offices for student organizationsis adjacent to Alumni Hall, a large multipurpose auditorium used for theater productions, concerts, lectures, films, and various University and community events.
Facilities for athletic and fitness activities are found in and around the gymnasium and physical education building. The gymnasium seats 1,500 and includes two regulation-size basketball courts. Also available are a steam room, a sauna, and a 24,000-square-foot recreation/fitness center with a large free-weight room; an exercise machine center; aerobics studios; basketball, volleyball, and tennis courts; and a suspended indoor track. There are also lighted tennis courts, playing fields, and miles of scenic routes for running and biking.
Quinnipiac offers a full range of services to assist students in achieving personal and career goals. Individual career counseling is supplemented by a computerized guidance system that lets students enter information about their interests and skills and receive a printout with current data on professions, jobs, and graduate schools. Quinnipiac also has an active career and internship placement office that serves as a liaison between the corporate community and students, new graduates, and alumni.
Graduate programs lead to the Master of Science degree in advanced accounting, advanced practice or orthopedic physical therapy, computer information systems, interactive communications, journalism, and molecular and cell biology; the Master of Health Science in medical lab sciences, pathologist assistant studies, and physician assistant studies; the Master of Science in Nursing in nurse practitioner studies; the Master of Business Administration; and the Master of Arts in Teaching. A $22-million, on-campus facility houses the Quinnipiac University School of Law and its library. The School offers full-time and part-time programs leading to a J.D. degree or J.D./M.B.A. degree in combination with the School of Business.
Location
Situated at the foot of Sleeping Giant Mountain in the New Haven suburb of Hamden, Quinnipiac provides the best of the country and the city. The University is only 10 minutes from New Haven, 30 minutes from Hartford (the state capital), and less than 2 hours from New York City and Boston. The University shuttle bus provides easy access to area shopping and attractions. Bordering the campus is Sleeping Giant State Park, which also provides a range of recreational activities. In addition to adjacent towns such as Cheshire, Wallingford, and North Haven, a short trip by car or bus puts students in New Haven, where they can visit the acclaimed Yale Center for British Art, attend a performance at the Schubert or Long Wharf Theater, marvel at the dinosaurs in the Peabody Museum of Natural History, or dine in fine restaurants. Quinnipiac's New England location also makes it convenient to enjoy a day in the surf or on the slopes. The beaches on Long Island Sound are easy to reach, and major ski resorts are only an hour's drive from campus.
Majors and Degrees
The School of Health Sciences grants bachelor's degrees in athletic training/sports medicine, biochemistry, biology (with premedical options in chiropractic, dentistry, medicine, podiatry, and veterinary medicine), biomedical science, chemistry, diagnostic imaging, microbiology/molecular biology, nursing, occupational therapy (5-year entry-level master's), physical therapy (6-year entry-level doctorate), physician assistant studies (6-year freshman entry-level master's), respiratory care, and veterinary technology.
In the School of Business, bachelor's degree programs are offered in accounting, advertising, computer information systems, entrepreneurship, finance, international business, management, and marketing. The School also offers a five-year combined-degree program in which students may be awarded the B.S. degree in business and a graduate degree in accounting, business administration, or computer information systems (M.S. or M.B.A.).
The College of Liberal Arts offers bachelor's degree programs in computer science, criminal justice, English, gerontology, history, interactive digital design, legal studies (paralegal), liberal studies, mathematics, political science, psychology, social services, sociology, and Spanish. Students can also design their own majors. Certification for teaching elementary, intermediate, and secondary education is offered through a five-year program, resulting in a Master of Arts in Teaching. A bachelor's degree program in psychobiology is interdisciplinary in nature. Students can also continue their study in graduate programs in business, law, journalism, or e-media.
The School of Communications offers undergraduate majors in journalism, media studies, production, and public relations and graduate programs in journalism and e-media for writing and design in the journalistic community.
Academic Programs
All degree programs at Quinnipiac University are offered through one of the five academic schools. The academic year consists of two 15-week fall and spring semesters and two summer sessions. All baccalaureate candidates are required to complete the Core Curriculum, which consists of up to 50 of the 120 semester hours of credit generally needed for graduation at the bachelor's degree level. The Core Curriculum promotes the achievement of college-level competence in English, mathematics, and such specialized areas as foreign language or computer science. It requires study in the artistic tradition, behavioral and social sciences, humanities, and physical and biological sciences.
Advanced placement, credit, or both are given for appropriate scores on Advanced Placement tests and CLEP general and subject examinations as well as for International Baccalaureate higher-level subjects.
Off-Campus Programs
Students in any of the four undergraduate schools can get hands-on experience in their field through off-campus internships. The University is affiliated with outstanding health and scientific institutionssuch as Children's Hospital (Boston), YaleNew Haven Hospital, Hartford Hospital, Gaylord Rehabilitation Hospital (Wallingford), and the University of Connecticut Health Centerthroughout the state and the nation. Opportunities for internships also exist in industry, large and small businesses, media outlets, and social and governmental agencies. Academic credit is available for internships and affiliations, which are often part of degree requirements.
Academic Facilities
Academic life focuses on the Bernhard Library, which opened in the fall of 2000. This attractive facility provides users with 600 seats, arranged as individual carrels and small rooms for group study and is open until 3 a.m. weekdays during the academic year. More than 150 personal computer workstations, 600 data ports, and a new wireless network are located throughout the library and provide access to automated library systems and extensive Web-based resources. In addition, students use the workstations in the library's Cyber Caf for online research and classroom assignments. The library houses an extensive collection of books, periodicals, government documents, films, tapes, and microforms. Members of the Quinnipiac University community may also draw on resources from local and statewide institutions through interlibrary loans and shared electronic resources.
Quinnipiac University is one of the most-wired campuses in the country and this is reflected in its academic facilities and programs. All incoming students must purchase a University-recommended laptop computer for use in the classroom. Students also use their computers for e-mail and course registration; to access online library resources, the Internet, course-related materials, and assignments; and to view their grades.
More specialized student-computing facilities are located in classrooms throughout the campus. Tator Hall has five computer classrooms and four teaching laboratories containing approximately 200 computers. The multimedia and video laboratories in the Ed McMahon Mass Communications Center each have fourteen Apple MacIntosh G5 and G4 workstations. The computer cluster in the Financial Technology Center at Quinnipiac University's School of Business is a high-tech, simulated trading floor providing students with the opportunity to access real-time financial data, conduct interactive trading simulations, and develop financial models in preparation for careers in finance. Other teaching space is also well equipped with technology for teaching. All classrooms have connections to the campus network and Internet, eighty-six have data projectors or large-screen computer monitors, and more than twenty-two have wireless connectivity for student laptops.
The Academic Center houses classrooms, laboratories, and an auditorium lecture hall. The Echlin Health Sciences Center houses physical and occupational therapy, nursing, and related fields of study. Buckman Center is where many of the science labs are located, including those for chemistry, respiratory care, and veterinary technology. A clinical skills lab, for use by nursing students and the physician assistant program, simulates a critical care hospital center. Also in the Center is the Buckman Theatre, which holds plays, concerts, and lectures. The Lender School of Business has local area network classrooms, satellite capabilities, and the Ed McMahon Mass Communications Center, containing a state-of-the-art, fully digital, high-definition TV production studio, print journalism and desktop publishing laboratories, and a news technology center.
Costs
The basic 200405 cost was $32,400, of which tuition and fees were $22,500 and room and board were, on average, $9900. Other expenses, typically $1200 per year, include books, laboratory and course fees associated with specific courses, and travel costs.
Financial Aid
Quinnipiac designs financial aid packages to include grants and scholarships that do not have to be repaid, self-help financial aid programs such as federal and University-based work study, and loans. Quinnipiac uses the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to determine need. Transfer students are eligible for the same need-based financial aid consideration as first-time freshmen. Quinnipiac also offers a number of renewable scholarships to new, full-time freshmen that are awarded partly or entirely on the basis of academic merit.
Faculty
The faculty is characterized by its teaching competence and outstanding academic qualifications. Of the 286 full-time faculty members, 70 percent have earned a Ph.D. or the appropriate terminal degree in their field. The faculty also includes a number of part-time teachers who are practicing professionals and experts in their fields. Classes are taught by these scholars and professionals and not by student instructors, and a low student-faculty ratio promotes close associations among faculty and students.
Student Government
The Student Government is the student legislative body of Quinnipiac. It represents student opinion, promotes student welfare, supervises student organizations, appropriates funds for student groups, and provides voting student representation on the Judicial Board, the College Senate, and the Board of Trustees.
Admission Requirements
Quinnipiac seeks students from a broad range of backgrounds. Candidates are evaluated on the basis of a completed application, as described below. Interviews are not always required, but visits to campus are strongly encouraged. Transfer students are welcome. Quinnipiac sponsors four open house programs during the year and several Saturday morning information sessions followed by a campus tour.
Application and Information
Quinnipiac has a rolling admission policy for its undergraduate programs but recommends that freshman applicants submit their application materials well before the deadline of February1 and that students applying to the physical and occupational therapy and physician assistant studies programs submit their applications by December31. Applications can be filed at any time beginning in the senior year of high school. Selection decisions are made as soon as applications are completed. For most programs, a completed application consists of a Quinnipiac application form; a transcript of completed high school courses, including grades for the first quarter of the senior year; a score report for either the SAT I or ACT; a personal statement (essay); and the application fee: $45 for paper or $30 online at the University Web site. Students placed on a waiting list are notified of any openings by June1. Transfer students are expected to forward a transcript of college course work undertaken. Quinnipiac subscribes to the May1 Candidates Reply Date Agreement. For information regarding full-time undergraduate study, students should contact:
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