Notes

These are items that bear looking into more closely.

• This institution’s six year bachelors graduation rate is 60.8%, so approximately 2/5 of undergrads who enroll do not earn a bachelors degree from here.

Overview of institution

This, and the rest of the page, use info from the most recent year available, generally 2023.

• Institution kind: Master’s Colleges & Universities: Larger Programs

• Undergrad program: Professions plus arts & sciences, some graduate coexistence

• Graduate program: Postbaccalaureate: Education-dominant, with Arts & Sciences

• Enrollment profile: Majority graduate (see more details below)

• Average net price for undergrads on financial aid: $25,860 (1.3 times the equivalent cost of Harvard).

• Actual price for your family: Go here to see what your family may be asked to pay. It can be MUCH lower than the average price but also higher for some.

• Size and setting: Four-year, small, primarily residential

• In state percentage: 84% of first year students come from Connecticut

• In US percentage: 99% of first year students come from the US

• This institution has a religious affiliation of Roman Catholic

• Graduation rate (within 6 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 60.8% (this is what is usually reported as “graduation rate”)

• Graduation rate (within 4 years) for students seeking a Bachelors: 56%

• Percent of students seeking a Bachelors who transfer out of this institution: 29.6%

• Student to tenure-stream faculty ratio: 8.6 (undergrads to tenure-stream faculty) [Tenure explained]

• Student to faculty ratio: 6.5 (undergrads to all faculty)

• Degrees offered: Certificate of less than 1 year, Certificate of at least 12 weeks but less than 1 year, Bachelor’s degree, Postbaccalaureate certificate, Master’s degree, Post master’s certificate, Doctor’s degree: professional practice

• Schedule: Semester

• Institution provides on campus housing: Yes

• Dorm capacity: There are enough dorm beds for 384 students

• Freshmen required to live on campus: No

• Advanced placement (AP) credits used: Yes

• Disabilities: 12.99 percent of undergrads are registered as having disabilities.

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Comparisons

The sections below show this institution compared with others. The ones listed are ones it has identified as peers, who consider themselves peers, and/or who the federal government considers peers. If a comparison school has the same value as the focal school, its cell is grayed out. In fields where there is a common view that higher (or lower) values are better, the best values are in blue, the worst values are in red. If there isn’t a sense of a particular value being better, values are shown in varying shades of green. Arrows show where there is a signficant trend over time for a school. You can swipe across the table to see more of it; the focal school column is always visible.

• University of Saint Joseph lists these schools as ones to compare itself within federal IPEDS data, and they do the same back: Caldwell University, Norwich University, St Catherine University, Emmanuel College, Hood College, The College of Saint Rose, Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, Manhattanville College, University of Mount Saint Vincent, Carlow University, Albertus Magnus College, Trinity Washington University, Lesley University
• University of Saint Joseph compares itself to these institutions, but not vice versa: Fairfield University, Emerson College, Sacred Heart University, College of Saint Mary, University of Scranton, Salve Regina University, Eastern University, University of St Francis, Gwynedd Mercy University, Marywood University, Simmons University, Manhattan College, DeSales University, Alfred University, Wagner College, Saint Mary’s College, Le Moyne College, Seton Hill University, College of Saint Benedict, University of Hartford, Mount Saint Mary’s University, Assumption University, Western New England University, Mount St. Mary’s University, University of New Haven, Immaculata University, Saint Michael’s College, McDaniel College, Arcadia University, Waynesburg University, Mount Mary University, Saint Peter’s University, Georgian Court University, Goucher College, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Iona University, Wilkes University, University of Lynchburg, Mount Saint Mary College, Sweet Briar College, Cabrini University, Alverno College, St. Thomas Aquinas College, Rivier University, Southern New Hampshire University, Regis College, Saint Elizabeth University, Holy Family University, Ursuline College, Chestnut Hill College, Wells College, Randolph College, Rosemont College, Notre Dame College
• These institutions compare themselves to University of Saint Joseph, but not vice versa: Carroll College, Niagara University, Viterbo University, Walsh University, College of Our Lady of the Elms, Goodwin University, Xavier University of Louisiana, Anna Maria College, American International College, Landmark College, LIM College, Bay Path University, Tiffin University, New England College

Enrollment

General

Teaching

Tenure track faculty are those who are eligible for tenure. This includes both pre-tenure and tenured faculty. Once faculty get tenure, they are (generally) protected from being fired for intellectual reasons, helping to ensure their freedom in teaching and research. They can still lose their positions for misconduct, financial problems, not fulfilling their duties, or other reasons.

Non-tenure track faculty are not eligible for tenure. Some are hired one semester at a time, some have multi-year contracts. They typically have a higher teaching load than tenure track faculty, leaving less time for research or other creative endeavors. They are also easier to fire than tenured faculty. Sometimes they are external experts (a noted musician, a former senator) who are hired to teach some classes without the expected permanence of a tenure-track position.

Note that this chart uses US federal demographic data: it only has two genders and a specified set of ethnicities and races.

Having a low student to faculty ratio is considered a good thing by many, as it can mean more individual attention.

Geography

This has information on the location of the institution. See the about page for more information on what the metrics are and how they are calculated.

Financial Aid

Graduation

Note these are bachelors graduation rates in six years, not four (this is standard). Sample sizes can be small for some demographic groups with few individuals in a school, leading to large year-to-year fluctuations and often extreme values for those groups (if there are two individuals in the class with a given identity, the possible graduation rates are 0%, 50%, or 100% depending on whether zero, one, or both students graduate within six years).

Library

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