Welcome from the President
Dear Friends,
On behalf of our 8,500 students, many hundreds of professors and staff members and 37,000-plus alumni, I want to welcome you to Sacred Heart University. In these pages, you will find just some of the reasons that the Princeton Review has included our University in its Best 379 Colleges: 2015 Edition, Best 296 Business Schools: 2014 Edition, and on its “Best in the Northeast” list, and U.S. News & World Report ranks us among the best master’s universities in the north. As the second-largest Catholic university in New England, Sacred Heart offers more than 70 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs on its main campus in Fairfield, Conn., and at its satellites in Connecticut, Luxembourg and Ireland.
The University is made up of five distinctive colleges: Arts and Sciences, Isabelle Farrington College of Education, Health Professions, Nursing, and the Jack Welch College of Business. Educating students in the legacy and tradition of GE’s legendary Jack Welch, this College is accredited by the AACSB International, an elite designation belonging to fewer than five percent of business schools worldwide. The University fields 32 Division I varsity teams and sponsors an award-winning program of community service.
At Sacred Heart, we encourage our students to take advantage of the many opportunities we offer to study abroad. Exposure to and familiarity with diverse cultures is a key component of the lifelong commitment to intellectual inquiry and social justice that Sacred Heart challenges all of its students to embrace. Students may choose from a traditional semester-long opportunity or an intensive month-long experience.
For more than 50 years, Sacred Heart University has remained rooted in the Catholic intellectual traditions. At the same time, we have grown and adapted to meet the ever-changing needs of our students and the workplace. We are here to assist you in your journey of learning and to travel with you as you work to build a better, more peaceful world. Please call on anyone listed in these pages with your questions and concerns. We welcome your interest in our community of active and engaged learners and hope your time with us is both challenging and productive.
Sincerely,
John J. Petillo, PhD