CCSU: A Flagship Campus
Prestigious Award-Winning Academics CCSU’ s undergraduate curriculum, nationally recognized for its excellence by the Association of American Colleges & Universities, offers 100 majors in more than 80 fields of study.
Carol A. Ammon College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Carol A. Ammon, a very successful businesswoman and a Central alumna, Class of 1973, has made a generous $ 8 million contribution to CCSU through the Carol A. Ammon Foundation. Her gift will be used for student scholarships and academic program support.
School of Business Our AACSB accredited School of Business offers Bachelors of Science degrees in Accounting, Finance, Management & Organization, Management Information Systems, and Marketing. CCSU’ s School of Business joins the ranks of other prestigious institutions in Connecticut, including Yale and UConn. Only about 5 percent of business schools in the United States and 49 countries and territories worldwide have received the coveted AACSB stamp of approval.
School of Education & Professional Studies CCSU is Connecticut’ s oldest public institution of higher education – founded first as the New Britain Normal School in 1849 and later becoming the Teachers College of Connecticut( 1933), then becoming Central Connecticut State College in 1959. Ultimately ending up as Central Connecticut State University that is the nationally recognized brand today. Accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education( NCATE) longer than any institution in the state of Connecticut. Our University’ s teacher preparation program is the best in the state according to a recent ranking by ToBecomeATeacher. org.
School of Engineering, Science & Technology Our programs adhere to the highest standards and are nationally accredited by ABET, ACCE, ATMAE, CAC, and NCATE. Graduates have remarkable success in finding career-starting jobs. Placement rates often approach 100 percent!
School of Graduate Studies Central Connecticut State University offers graduate degree programs in approximately 40 fields of study, with many of the degrees offering specializations that provide additional focuses.
Popular Majors of Study
•. Business, Management, Marketing & Related Support Services
• Social Sciences
• Education
• Psychology
• Engineering Technologies and Engineering Related Fields
The University has a full time faculty of 400 members, more than 75 % possess a doctorate. In addition to some 400 part-time instructors. CCSU faculty have earned Ph. D. s at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Duke, the universities of Pennsylvania, Michigan, NYU and other world-class institutions.
Points of Pride
. The college guide book, Great Colleges for the Real World: Get in Get out, Get a Job, selected CCSU as one of the“ best 200 colleges” in the nation.
Recognizing the University’ s many community engagement activities, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching designated CCSU as one of the Foundation’ s Community Engagement Institutions.