Quinnipiac's Polling Institute is noted for excellence and accuracy by national and international news organizations, and is often cited during election campaigns. Netter MD School of Medicine admitted 60 students to its first class in 2013. Quinnipiac's Physician's Assistant (PA) program is ranked 11th nationally by U.S. That same year, Quinnipiac University received accreditation by AACSB.Ĭurrently, Quinnipiac offers 58 undergraduate majors, 20 graduate programs, and a JD program. On July 1, 2000, the school officially changed its name to Quinnipiac University - to reflect its relatively new breadth in academic offerings. Quinnipiac's Arnold Bernhard Library and clock tower, focus of main campus quadrangle, August 2008. Also, during the mid-1990s, Quinnipiac's communications and business programs, respectively, built state-of-the-art facilities and attracted nationally-respected professors. In 1995, three major events occurred: the University of Bridgeport's law school migrated to Quinnipiac the American Bar Association accredited Quinnipiac to award the Juris Doctor degree and the Quinnipiac School of Law Center was dedicated. Until the 1990s, Quinnipiac remained primarily a commuter college with only a regional reputation however, that changed during the next decade. During the 1970s, Quinnipiac began to offer master's degrees in a variety of disciplines.

In 1966, after having outgrown its campus in New Haven, Quinnipiac moved to its current campus in the Mount Carmel section of Hamden, Connecticut, at the foot of Sleeping Giant Park. In 1952, Quinnipiac expanded rapidly, both physically and in terms of curriculum, relocating to a larger campus in New Haven, and also assuming administrative control of Larson College, a private women's college.

That same year, Quinnipiac began to confer bachelor's degrees. In 1951, the institution was renamed Quinnipiac College, in honor of the Quinnipiac Indian tribe that once inhabited Greater New Haven. Upon re-opening, the college's enrollment nearly quadrupled to approximately 800 students. In 1935, the college changed its name to Junior College of Commerce.įrom 1943 to 1945, the college closed, as nearly its entire student body was drafted into World War II. At the time, it awarded only associate's degrees. On opening its doors in 1929, it enrolled under 200, and its first graduating class featured only eight students. Originally, Quinnipiac was located in New Haven and called Connecticut College of Commerce. Quinnipiac was conceived in reaction to Northeastern University's abandonment of its New Haven, Connecticut program at the onset of the Great Depression. Judge Phillip Troup, a Yale College graduate, and Tator's wife, Irmagarde Tator, a Mount Holyoke College graduate, also played major roles in the fledgling institution's founding and nurturing the former became its first president until his death in 1939 the latter, its first bursar. Tator, a business professor and politician. Quinnipiac University was founded in 1929 by Samuel W. The Mount Carmel campus, from atop Sleeping Giant, April 2009.

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