College Spotlight

Sacred Heart University

Fairfield, CT

• SHU has enhanced the undergraduate student experience in many notable ways.  It now has 12 residential areas, with approximately 92 percent of first-year students and 57 percent of all undergraduates residing in University housing.

• ‌SHU now offers more than 80 undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and certificate programs on its main campus in Fairfield, Conn and satellite campus in Dingle, Ireland.

• The University consists of six colleges and three schools: 

  •  College of Arts & Sciences

  • School of Communication, Media & the Arts

  • School of Social Work 

  • School of Computer Science and Engineering

  • AACSB-accredited Jack Welch College of Business & Technology 

  • College of Health Professions 

  • Davis & Henley College of Nursing 

  • Isabelle Farrington College of Education & Human Development

  • St. Vincent's College 

• The Princeton Review's 2022 guidebook, The Best 387 Colleges, places SHU among the best universities while U.S. News & World Report’s guidebook, Best Colleges 2022, reports Sacred Heart as one of the best universities in the nation.

• The University offers Division I athletics with 33 varsity teams.  The Valentine Health & Recreation Center is the state-of-the-art recreation center open to all students and includes a suspended track, bowling lanes and a climbing wall. 

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