FAIRFIELDFAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY The Big Picture FAIRFIELDFAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY 1 FAST FACTs 2012–13 Founded: 1942, by the Jesuits Undergraduate Students: 3,300 Graduate Students: 1,300 University Schools: es, you could go to college and take some classes and College of Arts and Sciences Y Charles F. Dolan School of Business School of Engineering do some activities and go to some events and think a few School of Nursing Graduate School of Education thoughts and get a diploma and get a job with a paycheck and Allied Professions Undergraduate Profile: and have a standard-issue life. Receiving Academic Scholarship: 34% Receiving Financial Aid: 70% AHANA Students (African American, We want more. And if you want more, maybe you belong here. Hispanic, Asian, Native American): 16% *SAT Scores of Middle 50% of Admitted Students: 1690 – 1910 *ACT Composite Score of Middle 50% of We’re Fairfield University. We’re a Catholic, Jesuit university, Admitted Students: 25-28 *Admission to Fairfield is test-optional rooted in one of the world’s oldest intellectual and spiritual Tuition for 2012–2013: $41,090 traditions. We’re located in the heart of a region where Room and Board: $12,550 Fees: $600 the future takes shape, on a stunning campus on the Student to Faculty Ratio: 11:1 Connecticut coast, an hour from New York City. Faculty Holding Highest Degree in Their Field: 91% Undergraduate Majors: 41 We believe that living and learning aren’t two separate Interdisciplinary Minors: 16 activities. They’re parts of a coherent whole. Everything Graduate Programs: 38 you do here – course work and research, internships and Study Abroad Programs: Over 100 approved programs community service, campus leadership and study abroad – NCAA Division I Athletic Teams: 20 adds up. Everyone you meet here – people who represent Number of Club Sports: 17 Student Clubs and Organizations: 80 a wide range of spiritual beliefs, political opinions, and Fulbright Awards: Over 60 students awarded this prestigious award since 1993 personal experiences – gives you something essential. Of the Class of 2011 Survey Respondents: 93% secured full-time employment, The result is more than a job and a paycheck. The result is were admitted to graduate school or chose to participate in a service program 44% found jobs through internships a mind (and a heart, and a spirit) that keeps expanding and 30% found jobs through campus recruiting seeking and growing. The result is an inspiring, inspired life. www.fairfield.edu FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY 3 MAJORS SCHOOL OF NURSING Fairfield University, located in Fairfield, Connecticut on a (Most majors can be Nursing 200-acre campus overlooking Long Island Sound, is one minors as well) of 28 Jesuit universities and colleges in the United States. Shaped by one of the world’s great intellectual, spiritual, CHARLES F. DOLAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS INTERDISCIPLINARY and activist traditions, we are committed to educating MINORS Accounting the whole person – in body, mind, and spirit. The process is Accounting Information Finance very intentional, and involves looking at each college year Systems Information Systems/ Applied Ethics through a special lens. Operations Management Asian Studies International Studies Black Studies COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Management Business Law, Regulation, Freshmen find their place in the community, making the Marketing and Ethics adjustment to independent living, looking to advisors and Catholic Studies mentors for help, and becoming connected to others. FAIRFIELD’s 3,300 UNDERGRADUATES... Classical Studies • Come from across the country and around the world COLLEGE OF ARTS Educational Studies & SCIENCES VoCATIONAL EXPLORATION • Run 80 clubs and organizations Environmental Studies American Studies In your sophomore year, you will dig deep into your core • Play on 20 Division I athletic teams Irish Studies Biochemistry courses and explore what you are truly passionate about. • Participate in a strong intramural sports program Italian Studies Biology You may choose at this time to live or participate in one • Work for an exceptionally active student government Judaic Studies Chemistry of our special residential college communities. (FUSA) Latin American and Communication Caribbean Studies • Perform service in local, national, and international Computer Science Peace and Justice Studies communities Economics – B.A. and B.S. Russian and East European • Leave here aware of the world at large, ready to English Studies become responsible global citizens (Creative Writing; Women’s Studies Journalism; Literature; Professional Writing) FAIRFIELD AND BEYOND History Fairfield County and New York City are essential parts of International Studies PRE-PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS a Fairfield education. Students take internships with the Mathematics Health Professions region’s Fortune 500 companies and major cultural insti- Modern Languages and Program (HPP) tutions; conduct research and field work at its pioneering Literatures (pre-medical, dental, (French; German; Italian; labs and medical facilities; and serve as volunteers in its veterinary, podiatry, Spanish) sports medicine, service agencies and nonprofit organizations. Philosophy osteopathy, optometry, Physics occupational or physical therapy) The University’s alumni – more than 40,000 worldwide – Politics Pre-Law hold leadership positions in nearly every field. Nearly Psychology – B.A. and B.S. Five Year Teacher Education CIVIC ENGAGEMENT 44 percent of our graduates take jobs at firms where Religious Studies Tracks in elementary As a junior, you’ll consider your role in the larger world – they served as interns. An exceptionally high number of Sociology and Anthropology education, secondary education (English, math, “giving back” through leadership on campus or engagement our graduates – over 60 since 1993 – have won Fulbright Visual and Performing Arts (Art History; Music; Studio social studies, world with local and global communities. Study abroad and Scholarships supporting a year of academic Art; Theatre; New Media: languages, and science) hands-on learning experiences will lay the foundation or work experience abroad. Film, Television, and and TESOL (Teaching Radio) English to Speakers of for your growth. Other Languages) DISCERNMENT SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Seniors enter a period of discernment, reflecting on Automated Manufacturing where the past has brought them and where the future Engineering might lead. Capstone projects, senior retreats, and Computer Engineering internships are part of the process. Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering CORE CURRICULUM Software Engineering Undergraduate course work is grounded in Fairfield’s Engineering 3/2 option core curriculum, a critical, comprehensive survey of essential knowledge in the major fields of study. www.fairfield.edu FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY 5 FAIRFIELD AND NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK CITY, FROM A TO Z The Apollo Theater Asian Americans for Equality Street Fair Bastille Day Street Festival FAIRFIELD Bronx Zoo Fairfield is a quaint New England town that has developed Carnegie Hall into a lively suburb. It has stores you’ve heard of and unique Central Park shops, restaurants, and theaters that many of you haven’t. Chinatown And best of all, the town of Fairfield is on the shores of Citi Field Long Island Sound. Comite del Desfile y Festival Dominicano Coney Island We have plenty of beaches, all within minutes of the campus, Ellis Island and more than 1,000 acres of open space – forest, lakes, Empire State Building rivers, salt marsh, wetlands and meadows – all available Feast of San Gennaro for hiking, fishing and picnicking, or just to be admired. So Greenwich Village it’s the kind of town where, on any evening, you could have a Harlem Week Uptown Saturday Night great Italian meal, hear some amazing live music, visit the Fairfield is ideally located between Boston and New York City Hellenic Orthodox Church Festival University Bookstore downtown, and go to the beach to look – within the thriving corporate corridor – where the highest The Hispanic Society of America at the stars. concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the country India Day Festival are located and are accessible to students, providing many Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art enriching learning opportunities. JAMS Cultural Collaborative Festival Jewish Museum of New York NEW YORK CITY Louis Armstrong House and Archives New York City beckons too. A little farther down the coast Lincoln Center – roughly an hour train ride from campus – you’ll be in the Lower East Side Tenement Museum center of it all. Explore New York City’s neighborhoods, Madison Square Garden its museums, and its cultural life. Take advantage of the Museum for African Art diverse internship opportunities companies in New York City Museum of American Folk Art offer our students. See why being close to New York makes Museum of the American Indian Fairfield University an ideal location for living and learning. Museum of Chinese in the Americas The New York Stock Exchange Pakistan American Merchants Festival Radio City Music Hall Rockefeller Center Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Socrates Sculpture Garden SoHo St. Patrick’s Cathedral Staten Island Ferry The Statue of Liberty The Studio Museum of Harlem Teatro Moderno Puertorriqueno Carnival Tepeyac Sun Festival Times Square The United Nations Wall Street West Indian Day Parade Yankee Stadium www.fairfield.edu FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY 7 A SAMPLING OF THA E AC DEMIC PROGRAM SELECTED CORE CLASSES AREA I (Math and Natural Science)