Currently, The University of Hartford (UHart) is a private, independent, nonsectarian, coeducational university located mostly in West Hartford, Connecticut. Its 350-acre (1.4 km2) main campus touches portions of three municipalities: Bloomfield, Hartford, and West Hartford.
Now in its sixth decade, the University of Hartford sits proudly on a 350-acre main campus that includes parts of Hartford, West Hartford, and Bloomfield, Conn. It provides a beautifully landscaped vista with grassy expanses and wooded areas with a branch of the Park River winding through it.
Education
The University of Hartford provides a robust, distinctive educational experience for its more than 5,000 undergraduate and 1,600 graduate students. Distinguished faculty provide rigorous instruction as well as research, performance, and internship opportunities in more than 100 degree programs in the arts, humanities, business, engineering and technology, education, and health professions. With students from 48 states and 63 countries, we are a university for the world.
Research
The research area cover a wide spectrum of subjects, starting with biology or chemistry and ending with history or sociology.
Career
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society, the University engages students in acquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
We combine a traditionally strong commitment to shared community values of support and encouragement with academic challenge in a wide variety of programs and disciplines in order to prepare our students for success in the 21st century.
University of HartfordKey Statistics & Highlights
9 Courses
752Academic Staff
5,924Students
2,251Students (int'l)
3,495Students (female)
Student services
The University has developed a number of offices and departments which act as mediators in different problems (financial, enrollment, timelines etc.)
Library services
The Mortensen Library is the general library at the University of Hartford. It houses all of the library's collections with the exception of music. The original Mortensen Library was built beginning in 1969 and was expanded as part of the new Harry Jack Gray Center in 1989.
Medical services
The University provides a Health Services point, where different medical situations can be taken care of. Health Services is located on the ground floor of the Sports Center. The entrance and parking are on the left side of the building.
Campus life
With a total span of over 350 acres, the main campus is the core of the Hartford educational universe. In addition, numerous other campuses have been built in order to accommodate the expansion of the University.
Sports facilities
The university fields 18 varsity sports, nine men's sports: baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, and indoor and outdoor track & field; and nine women's sports: basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, indoor and outdoor track & field, and volleyball.[14]
Student clubs
The are multiple student associations which newcomers can join:
A cappella groups - Uharmonies, Hawkapella
Campus publications - Aerie, Icon, The Informer
Faith Organizations - Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, Muslim Students Association
Music for a Change
Accreditation
The University of Hartford received a letter of continued accreditation from the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education (CIHE) of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) on May 8, 2012. The re-accreditation came following a comprehensive evaluation of the University in 2011. The next accreditation study is scheduled for 2021.
NEASC is the regional accreditation agency for colleges and universities in the six New England states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education as a reliable authority on the quality of education for the institutions it accredits.
University of HartfordOverview
University of HartfordRankings
Study Portals Meta Ranking
Top 17.4%United States
Top 26.2%Worldwide
Studyportals ranking look at the scores of the most used ranking systems and present you with one number of how well this University performs.
QS World University Rankings
No 2024 Ranking
By TopUniversities
This university doesn’t have a ranking for 2024 yet. Rankings are updated yearly, so check back later for the latest info.
QS World University Rankings is one of the top international rankings measuring the popularity and performance of universities all over the world. They measure university reputation based on the impressions of higher education experts, companies who hire graduates, and teaching quality. QS also considers the ratio of international teachers and students present at universities, as well as the times research papers were mentioned by researchers. After calculating and comparing these criteria, QS ranks the universities accordingly.
3 year trend QS World University Rankings
2022
2023
2024
801
801
-
We don’t have enough recent ranking data to show a 3-year trend for this university.
The professors and the content was top notch, each professor was very fluent in their specialty. However due to a "changing of the guards" esque transition period where multiple professors were retiring and new ones being hired the direction of the education was not always consistent.