Quick Facts

Chartered: 1957

President: Walter Harrison (fifth president, began in 1998)

Location: Main campus in Hartford, West Hartford, and Bloomfield, Conn.
  
Mailing Address: 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06117-1599

Website: www.hartford.edu 

Type: independent, nonsectarian, coeducational

School Colors: scarlet and white

Main Campus: 350 acres (Hartford 193, Bloomfield 133, West Hartford 24) 

Asylum Avenue Campus: 10.5 acres

Handel Center Campus: 7 acres

Full–time Undergraduates: 4,541

Part–time Undergraduates: 839

Graduate Students: 1,612 (920 Part-Time)

Total/All Students: 6,992

Degrees Awarded (2011-12 academic year): 1,654
21 certificate, 116 associate's, 955 bachelor's, 480 master's, 82 doctoral 

States Represented: 44

Countries Represented: 48

Undergraduate Majors: 84

Associate's Degree Programs: 11

Graduate Degree Programs: 38

Tuition: $30,618

Room and Board: $12,104

Total/Fees Included: $44,276

Full–time Faculty: 346

Part-time Faculty: 497

Student–Faculty Ratio: 13:1

Full–time Faculty Holding Terminal Degrees in Their Fields: 86%

Minority Representation/Undergraduates #: 26.2% 

Minority Representation/Graduate Students #: 15.3%

Schools of the University and Enrollment (full-time/part-time/total)

• Barney School of Business (598/418/1,016)
• College of Arts and Sciences (1,326/225/1,551)
• College of Education, Nursing and Health Professions  (890/358/1,248)
• College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture (890/165/1,036)
• Hartford Art School (352/27/379)
• The Hartt School (705/60/765)
• Hillyer College (449/3/452)
• University Studies (22/161/183)

Full–time Undergraduate Student Facts

51.4% female, 48.6% male

43.9% from Connecticut

3.8% international students

13.4% African American

8.6% Hispanic

2.9% Asian 

61.2% reside on campus 

Calendar
Semester system (September–December and January–May) with Summerterm (May–July and July–August) and Winterterm (January) offerings

Athletics

Level: Division I

Nickname: Hartford Hawks

Mascot: Howie the Hawk

Conference: America East (with Albany; Boston U.; Binghamton; Maine; Maryland, Baltimore County; New Hampshire; Stony Brook; Vermont)

Intercollegiate Sports: 18 (9 men’s, 9 women’s)

Home Soccer/Lacrosse Facility: Yousuf Al-Marzook Field at Alumni Stadium (capacity–2,500)

Home Basketball Arena: The Chase Arena in Reich Family Pavilion (capacity, 3,508)

Home Baseball Field: Fiondella Field (capacity, 1,000), Softball Field (capacity, 1,000)

Living Alumni: 67,952

Total Alumni: 74,344

Alums in Connecticut: 41%

Notable Alumni:

• Jeff Bagwell: former professional baseball All-Star and current hitting coach for the Houston Astros
• Kathy Behrens: executive vice president for social responsibility and player programs for the National Basketball Association
• Leonard Boyle: Director of the Terrorist Screening Center for the FBI
• Javier Colon: Universal Republic Records singer and songwriter who won NBC’s reality singing competition The Voice.
• Stephen Dalyai: president and CEO of Quindar Electronics, Inc., credited with the introduction of the first transistor voice frequency, audio-tone telemetry products for electronic network monitoring and control
• Robert Forrester: chairman and CEO of Newman’s Own, Inc. and Newman’s Own Foundation
• Joxel Garcia: past president and dean, Ponce Medical School
• Frank X. Hursey: president and founder of On Site Gas Systems, co-founder of Z-Medica, and inventor of QuikClot
• Marin Ireland: film, stage, and television actress who won the 2009 Theatre World Award and was nominated for a 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in reasons to be pretty
• Jerry Kelly: current professional golfer on the PGA tour
• Kent McCray: television industry pioneer, produced numerous successful series for television and film
• Michael Mongillo: award-winning film director and screen writer
• Jackalyne Pfannenstiel: Former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Energy, Installations and Environment, U.S. Department of the Navy
• David Pritikin: producer of high-profile reality TV shows, including Sarah Palin’s Alaska and Survivor
• Shane Shanahan: renowned percussionist and original member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble
• Timothy Stella: musician, musical director, and associate conductor of Broadway’s Phantom of the Opera

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next full update: late fall 2013