Chestnut Hill College

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Private
Roman Catholic
Undergraduate and graduate
Primarily female

Tuition and Fees - $23,600
Room & Board - $7,950

Chestnut Hill College opened in 1924 as a Catholic, four-year, liberal arts college for women. Founded as Mount Saint Joseph College by the Sisters of Saint Joseph, the college was renamed in 1938 as Chestnut Hill College..

Chestnut Hill College offers a liberal arts education that provides students with a broad background in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. The goal of Chestnut Hill College has been to provide students with a holistic education, addressing the needs of the whole person - spiritual, intellectual, social, physical and cultural.

Chestnut Hill College is located in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, about ten miles from City Hall.

For many years the main buildings were St. Joseph Hall, with its six-story Greco-Roman rotunda and French Gothic exterior, Fournier Hall, a jewel of Italian Romanesque architecture, and Clement Hall, with its classrooms and athletic facilities, including a swimming pool.

The additions of the Science Building, Logue Library, Fontbonne Hall, and Barbara D'Iorio Martino Hall meet the needs of a growing college community. In 2006, a new residence hall was opened to help alleviate a housing shortage on campus.

Chestnut Hill College awards Certificate, Associate, transfer-associate, Bachelor's, Post-bachelor's certificate, Master's, Post-master's certificate, and Doctorate degrees.

The most popular declared majors are business, management, marketing, and related support services; public administration and social service professions; education; psychology and security and protective services.

Chestnut Hill's undergraduate college has a student body of 1,039 (753 female) undergraduates. Almost half of its students are men and women of color.

The Chestnut Hill College faculty has 72 full-time and 183 part-time faculty members. The College's student-to-faculty ratio is 9:1.

Liberal Arts Colleges: Universities - Master's (North), third tier
Overall score: N/A
Average freshman retention rate: 69%
2007 graduation rate: (Predicted) 42%

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