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Academic Excellence

A commitment to teaching excellence is a hallmark of Nazareth College that spans its entire 75-year history. Such excellence is evident both in how faculty approach their responsibilities in the classroom as teachers and in what students take away with them.

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What do you want out of your college education? Knowledge? Skills? A career that excites you? How about all of the above?

Challenge Yourself

In addition to our rigorous academic majors, you may have the opportunity to participate in one of our special programs:

  • Honors Program: Once accepted to the honors program, take part in interdisciplinary seminars, attend lectures featuring prominent thinkers and leaders, and produce an honors thesis senior year.
  • Independent Study: Engage in independent study and direct your own research projects with the guidance of a professor.
  • Fulbright: Apply for this international exchange program that offers graduate study and advanced research worldwide.

Learn From the Best

When you enroll at Nazareth, you have access to professors and staff members who genuinely enjoy giving their time and guidance. Our 152 full-time faculty members—94 percent of whom hold a Ph.D. or the highest degree in their field—haven't stopped going to school either. They turn to Nazareth's Center for Teaching Excellence, one of the few centers in the country dedicated to innovative teaching, for ideas and resources to take your learning to a higher level.

How We Measure Up

One of the best measures of a college is it's graduates:

  • Fulbright awards have been earned by 18 of our graduating seniors since 1990, placing Nazareth among the ranks of the country's most prestigious colleges and universities. Scholars from Nazareth have studied and taught in Argentina, Egypt, France, India, New Zealand, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and many other countries.
  • Two graduates have won the Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowships toward graduate study; these are awarded to only 20 students nationwide a year.
  • For nine years in a row, Nazareth students have received Kepner Scholarship Awards, which reward excellence in technical communication.
  • Nazareth graduates in physical therapy, nursing, creative arts therapy, and communication sciences and disorders enjoy a 100 percent placement rate.
  • The job placement rate for social work students is 95 percent.
  • 90% of the class of 2010 are either employed full time or pursuing a graduate degree full time.

100 percent:

Job placement rate of Nazareth graduates in physical therapy, nursing, creative arts therapy, and communication sciences and disorders.

Nazareth is a Top Producer of Fulbright Students

Fulbright Top Producer badge A record-breaking number of five U.S. Junior Fulbright award recipients from Nazareth College have placed the institution in the number three spot (in the Master’s Institutions category) of the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Top Producers of U.S. Fulbright Students, 2011–12 list. Nazareth has awarded 12 students the Fulbright in the last five years.

Tim Thibodeau

Timothy Thibodeau, History Professor

"My job is to take stuff that looks inherently boring and make it real. A lot of students tell me, 'I never knew history could be that fascinating.' It's the greatest privilege in my life to walk into a classroom and share my love of history." Read more »