Sacred Heart University

Fairfield, United States of America
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Sacred Heart University is a Catholic university located in suburban Fairfield, Connecticut, near the border with Bridgeport. Sacred Heart was founded in 1963 by Reverend Walter W. Curtis, Bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport, CT. SHU was the first Catholic university in the United States to be staffed by the laity.[citation needed] Anthony Cernera has been president of Sacred Heart University for eighteen years.

SHU is the second largest Catholic university in New England, behind Boston College[1],and offers more than 40 degree programs to 5,800 students at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels.

Sacred Heart is included in The Princeton Review's Best 368 Colleges 2009, The Princeton Review's Best 366 Colleges 2008, the Best 290 Business Schools 2008, as well as U.S. News and World Report's Best Colleges.