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Mission

Fairfield University, founded by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1942, is Catholic in both tradition and spirit. All of its schools share a liberal and humanistic perspective and a commitment to excellence. A liberal education, by its breadth and depth, offers each student the opportunity for individual and common reflection, while providing training in such essential human skills as analysis, synthesis, and communication.

In carrying out its mission, Fairfield University seeks to create an ongoing, stimulating learning environment for its students, its faculty, and the community. Fairfield prides itself on nurturing tomorrow’s leaders by broadly educating young people. This is accomplished through a comprehensive 60-credit core curriculum that focuses on arts and sciences courses and is complemented by the student’s major concentration. In this environment, students acquire the interdisciplinary knowledge, personal skills, and technical competencies necessary to excel in an increasingly complex and diverse global environment and to compete for a myriad of career opportunities upon graduation. Adult students seek out the educational opportunities offered in Fairfield’s six graduate programs with a choice of 28 advanced degree options.

Student Information

In its 62 year history Fairfield University has steadily grown from a small college serving 303 young men in its first year of operation to a thriving coeducational institution serving 5000 undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students from 33 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and 45 countries. The caliber of Fairfield's student population has steadily risen. For the Class of 2011, we received 8557 applications. The middle 50% of our admitted students scored between 1130 and 1310 on the SAT's, and were generally ranked in the top 17% of their high school class. There were 26 states represented in the class, as well as Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and six countries. These young people come to campus eager to pursue more than 32 majors, 20 interdisciplinary minors, and additional minors in almost all of the majors offered through the University’s six schools.

Graduate degree programs are offered in American studies, business, education, engineering, psychology, mathematics and nursing. The University recognizes that learning is a lifelong process and sees the education that it provides as a foundation upon which its students may continue to build within their chosen areas of scholarly study or professional development.

Fairfield’s students engage in diverse and challenging classroom learning experiences under the direction of highly qualified professors. In addition, they are encouraged to create new knowledge by actively pursuing complementary learning activities through independent research, internships, and community service.

Fairfield University has completed a comprehensive plan to create improved facilities that complement the evolution of pedagogy. Under the direction of the University’s new president, Jeffrey von Arx, S.J., Fairfield is currently finalizing the first draft of a strategic long-range plan. One of the signature features of this plan is the Center for the Faith and Public Life which recently received an endowment gift for the staffing of the Center’s full-time director, Fr. Rick Ryscavage, S.J. The Center will promote cross-disciplinary research, curricular development, and civic initiatives linking faith and public life.