Fall 2015 Education Guide

Are you looking for a career change, or thinking about pursuing a degree? If you have questions about what school is right for you, look no further. The Education Guide is here to help you discover the right degree program for your future goals. Flip through these pages and let us pinpoint the right school for you.

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CHATHAM CHATHAM UNIVERSITY

WOODLAND ROAD, PITTSBURGH, PA 15232 www.chatham.edu • 412-365-1100 Now fully coed, Chatham University is home to nearly 2,200 undergraduate and graduate students. Founded in 1869, Chatham is comprised of two distinct campuses. The Shadyside Campus includes Chatham Eastside, home to our health sciences and interior architecture programs, and Woodland Road — a leafy sanctuary minutes from downtown Pittsburgh.

Located in the North Hills of Pittsburgh, our 388-acre Eden Hall Campus is the world’s first academic community built from the ground up for the study and practice of sustainability.

Eden Hall has net zero energy; zero carbon emissions; and onsite management of all storm and waste water. In addition to housing our sustainability programs, Eden Hall also offers bachelor’s and master’s degree programming for North Hills residents in business management, psychology, and education.

Explore the new Chatham University

Chatham’s academic excellence is centered within three schools: the Falk School of Sustainability, the School of Health Sciences, and the School of Arts, Science, and Business. Undergraduate students can choose from over 40 majors, and through the Integrated Degree Program, qualified students to earn both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in as few as five years.

Visit us this fall to learn about our rigorous academics, explore our stunning campuses, and meet our faculty.

Can’t make it to one of our events? Plan a visit for one of our Saturday tour days.

Register today at chatham.edu/admission/events

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Sustainability • Health Sciences • Business & Communications • Arts & Sciences

A tuition free public cyber school providing a quality education.

We have highly qualified PA certified teachers, assigned Family Coaches, and supporting staff that serve our students in their educational success.

590 NORTH GULPH ROAD KING OF PRUSSIA, PA 19406

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TOLL FREE:

1-844-GO-AGORA WWW.AGORA.ORG

Fall Open House

Nov. 14

Schedule a campus visit today 0. by calling 724-946-7100.

Can’t make it to the open house?

You can visit anytime!

Come experience Westminster, meet our faculty and students, and check out our new majors!

NEW MAJORS NOW AVAILABLE AT WESTMINSTER COLLEGE

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• CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES • • SPORTS MANAGEMENT • • MARKETING •

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CCAC COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY

Allegheny Campus (North Shore) | Boyce Campus (Monroeville) North Campus (McCandless) | South Campus (West Mifflin) Braddock Hills Center | Homewood-Brushton Center Washington County Center | West Hills Center www.ccac.edu • 412-237-3100 Community College Of Allegheny County Will Host an Enrollment Open House at all eight of its locations Saturday, November 14, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., for prospective students and their families.

Individuals who bring their high school diploma, GED or college transcripts can complete their CCAC registration in one day. Attendees also can complete “on demand” placement testing, meet with an advisor and learn about CCAC’s program offerings in the arts and humanities; business; education, social and behavioral sciences and human services; health; science, technology, engineering and math; and the skilled trades.

CCAC staff will be on hand to answer questions about admissions and enrollment procedures, financial aid options, transfer and career opportunities and college services, sports, clubs and other activities.

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CCAC personnel also will conduct tours of the facilities for prospective students and their families.

Ever since its founding in 1966, CCAC has embraced the concept of providing affordable access to quality higher education. For hundreds of thousands of the region’s residents, CCAC has been the gateway to a more fulfilled and prosperous future, offering an avenue to a firstrate college education oftentimes not otherwise available. CCAC has an exceptional reputation for providing quality instruction at an affordable cost and this is just one of the reasons why every year thousands of students make CCAC their college of first choice.

For more information or directions to the CCAC location nearest you, visit ccac.edu.

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10:00 AM–1:00 PM

CCAC offers 23 transfer programs, 125 articulation agreements and more than 150 programs of study.

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Visit us on the web at ccac.edu or email admissions@ccac.edu

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INDIANA COUNTY TECHNOLOGY CENTER

INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

-LH[\YLK 7YVNYHT! 4LKPJHS (ZZPZ[HU[ A medical assistant program is now offered in Westmoreland County! Graduates of ICTC’s medical assistant program are qualified for a variety of entry-level positions in a medical practice’s administrative office, examining room, and office laboratory, with opportunities for future career advancement. Students learn the latest techniques from qualified practitioners who are some of the best educators in the field. The 1030-hour program includes 12 months of classroom instruction and a customized externship. All students are equipped with an iPad and a kit with tools of the trade. Graduates are eligible to sit for multiple healthcare certifications.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania offers all the opportunities of a large, doctoral university, but with small classes and faculty members who are actively engaged in helping you ÄUK Z\JJLZZ, not only in the classroom, but after graduation.

441 HAMILL ROAD, INDIANA, PA 15701 www.ictcmedicalassistant.com • 724-349-6700 Ext. 131

For more information, contact ICTC at 724349-6700 ext. 131, or visit us online at www.ictcmedicalassistant.com. Financial aid is available for those who qualify.

About the Indiana County Technology Center The Indiana County Technology Center is an innovative regional career development and technology center working in partnership with the community to provide a safe, caring environment that includes the integration of challenging vocational/technical skills and academic education. Emphasis is placed on the development of skills which provide pathways to further education and employment in an ever-changing world.

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1011 SOUTH DRIVE, INDIANA, PA 15705, www.iup.edu • 724-357-2100

IUP has close to 14,000 students from 44 states and more than 60 countries. It offers 132 undergraduate programs, 52 master’s programs, and 12 doctoral programs, and students take advantage of O\UKYLKZ VM PU[LYUZOPWZ and other YLHS ^VYSK L_WLYPLUJLZ in almost every major. IUP has more than 136,000 living alumni, with graduates prominent in almost every career field imaginable — including 1999 graduate Chad Hurley, cofounder of YouTube.

IUP also offers the Robert E. Cook Honors College community of scholars.

The university has more than 760 faculty members, and they are in the classroom; classes are small, and are taught by credentialed and L_WLYPLUJLK WYVMLZZVYZ, who work collaboratively to prepare students for careers that are in demand today, including jobs related to energy initiatives. IUP has more than 250 student organizations and a 280-acre outdoor recreational park.

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UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH COLLEGE OF GENERAL STUDIES

PROPEL SCHOOLS

3447 EAST CARSON STREET, SUITE 200, PITTSBURGH, PA 15203 www.propelschools.org • 412-325-7305

1400 WESLEY W. POSVAR HALL, 230 SOUTH BOUQUET ST., PITTSBURGH, PA 15260 www.cgs.pitt.edu • 412-624-6600

Is your child getting the education they need to succeed?

We’re What’s next! For more than 50 years, CGS has been addressing the unique needs of students who are busy with work, family, and other obligations. We support adult learners, transfer students, veterans, and others who want the personalized attention of a small academic community, and the competitive advantage of a degree from a world-renowned university.

For more than ten years, Propel Schools has provided students with a safe learning environment, individualized instruction, extraordinary science and arts programs, real-world opportunities and a standard of academic excellence.

Our community partnerships allow our students to learn and grow through collaborative, enriching and real-world experiences. Students have hands-on learning opportunities – from Kindergarten through 12th grade!

We Invest In Your Success! With our results-oriented degree programs, flexible course formats—including online and hybrid courses—and convenient evening and weekend classes, CGS is the region’s best choice for busy people who want to fit a college education into their already full lives. Even our academic success programs, career development seminars, and free tutoring sessions are held in the evening to help even the busiest students succeed.

Our eight elementary schools and two high schools are staffed with caring professionals, who are eager to see our students succeed. Propel inspires achievement in our students!

Most Popular Majors: Administration of Justice; Health Services; Media & Professional Communications; Natural Sciences (includes premed track)

Thousands of parents across the Pittsburgh region make the choice to send their children to one of Propel’s award-winning schools each and every day, because they believe Propel is the right choice for their child.

Awards and Recognitions: Pitt has been ranked as the top value in Pennsylvania ten consecutive times in The Kiplinger 100: Best Value in Public Colleges; 2015 Military Friendly Schools, a designation that recognizes the top 15 percent of colleges, universities, and trade schools in the nation that are doing the most to ensure the success of veteran students.

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Propel is NOW accepting lottery applications for grades K through twelve at all ten locations for the 2016/17 school year. Application deadline is December 31, 2015, so apply today at www.propelschools.org.

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WE’RE WHAT’S NEXT. Ready to complete your degree? Looking to advance your career? CGS’ career-focused programs and personalized support help you succeed wherever you’d like to go next. Our most popular majors include Administration of Justice, Media and Professional Communications, and Health Services.

Visit cgs.pitt.edu/cp today.

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3333 FIFTH AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15213 www.carlow.edu • 412-578-6059 Carlow University: Transforming Lives. Transforming Our World.

Carlow University is a co-educational, private, Catholic, masters comprehensive University looking for young men and women who share our commitment to making the world a better place for themselves and others.

Listed among the Top 20 best Bang-for-the-Buck private colleges by Washington Monthly, and ranked in the Top 100 by Educate to Career for doing the best job preparing students to find well-paying jobs in their fields after graduation, Carlow will provide you with more than just an education. Your teachers will become mentors, your classmates will become friends, and your friends will become family. And when it’s time to leave, you’ll be prepared not just for a career for when you graduate, but for opportunities that don’t even exist yet.

Carlow has an 11:1 student/faculty ratio and classes are taught by faculty members who are not only experts in their fields, but who exhibit an ardent, deeply-rooted commitment to the practice of teaching.

With more than 50 undergraduate majors, Carlow offers a wide variety of programs that turn a spark of curiosity into real-world skills that make a difference. Carlow undergraduates can also save time and money by working on their graduate degree as an undergraduate student through our accelerated degree options.

At Carlow, students can take volunteerism to a new level, exercise their civic responsibility, and increase their understanding of social issues and problems by working on various service-learning projects: a unique feature of a Carlow education.

Outside the classroom, Carlow students have the opportunity to explore professional experiences in Pittsburgh’s corporate community, its many health care institutions, non-profit organizations, and an abundance of arts organizations.

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Carlow is affiliated with the NAIA and the USCAA, and fields eight athletic teams including women’s and men’s basketball and cross-country and women’s soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball.

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NO GRE OR GMAT REQUIRED.

Designed for working professionals and taught by faculty with real-world, specialized expertise, Carlow’s graduate programs offer ultimate flexibility with classes that accommodate the busiest schedules.

Offering 15 masters, two doctoral, and four graduate certificate programs.

Business Administration Fraud and Forensics High Performance Learning Psychology Creative Writing Art Education Nursing

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BRADFORD UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT BRADFORD 300 CAMPUS DRIVE, BRADFORD, PA 16701 www.upb.pitt.edu • 1-800-872-1787

At the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, you’ll be in a friendly, supportive environment where you’ll get personalized attention. Since Pitt-Bradford is a regional campus of the University of Pittsburgh, you’ll earn the prestigious Pitt degree, which is respected worldwide.

Here are the top 10 reasons why you should consider Pitt-Bradford (in no particular order).

1. Your professors will get to know you and work closely with you to help you succeed.

2. Most of your classes will be small, so you’ll get personalized attention. Our average class size is 19.

3. You can choose from more than 40 majors, from accounting, athletic training and broadcast communications to criminal justice, nursing and biology.

4. You’ll have the chance to get a great internship, conduct research or study in another country. Or, all three.

5. You won’t just listen to lectures (though there’s nothing wrong with lectures.) You’ll learn by doing. Nursing majors work on computerized mannequins in our nursing suite. Criminal justice students solve mock crimes in our CSI House. Psychology majors conduct counseling

sessions in our psychology suite. Broadcast communications majors produce radio and TV broadcasts in our all-digital television or radio facilities.

6. All of our residence halls are apartment style and spacious. You won’t be stuck in a cramped dorm room.

9. You will never be bored – unless you want to be – because we have more than 60 student clubs and organizations.

7. You’ll have a ton of athletic, recreational and cultural activities to choose from: Play baseball, soccer or volleyball; explore caves, ride horses or ski; or enjoy a play, concert or lecture by a visiting author.

10. Your University of Pittsburgh degree will help you go beyond. Of the Class of 2014, 92 percent are employed, in graduate school, or both.

8. We offer many different types of financial aid to help you pay for college. More than 93 percent of our students receive some form of financial aid.

11. Our campus is even more beautiful than it looks on our virtual tour at http://tour.pittbradford.org.

OK, we know that’s 11, but who’s counting?

FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE 1235 UNIVERSITY BLVD., STEUBENVILLE, OH 43952 franciscan.edu • 1-800-783-6220

A Franciscan Education for Life Franciscan University of Steubenville is no ordinary university, and a Franciscan education is no ordinary education. Rather, it’s an education that challenges students intellectually, forms them professionally, and feeds them spiritually.

Founded in 1946 in nearby Steubenville, Ohio, by Franciscan Friars of the Third Order Regular, Franciscan University integrates strong academic programs with a lively Catholic faith environment.

The result? An extraordinary education that draws more than 2,400 students from 50 states and 13 foreign countries.

Franciscan University offers more than 40 undergraduate and 8 graduate degree programs with theology, nursing, biology, communication arts, and business among the most popular majors.

Science career tracks include Pre-Professional Programs in dentistry, law, medicine, optometry, pharmacy, physical therapy, and veterinary medicine, and a new engineer dual degree program that allows students to start their studies in Franciscan’s faith-filled environment and then finish at the University of Notre Dame, Gannon University, or the University of Dayton.

With an international reputation for programs grounded in authentic Church teachings, Franciscan University continues to attract far more undergraduate theology and catechetics majors than any other Catholic

university in the country.

Franciscan University’s study abroad program in Gaming, Austria, brings 200 students each semester to study and live in a restored medieval monastery near the Austrian Alps. From there, students travel to historic sites and Catholic shrines across Europe.

Confession, daily Mass, round-the-clock eucharistic adoration, prolife outreaches, and Festivals of Praise are a few ways students seek ongoing personal conversion in the power of the Holy Spirit. Some 550 students annually participate in mission trips, bringing the light of Christ to homeless shelters, orphanages, and remote jungle villages.

Franciscan offers a faith-based, virtue-driven NCAA Division III athletics program with seven men’s intercollegiate teams and nine women’s intercollegiate teams.

Franciscan University’s goal is to educate, evangelize, and send forth joyful disciples of Christ to be a transforming presence in the Church and the world.

The University’s success in its mission has led to national recognition from Kiplinger Personal Finance Magazine, FORBES’ America’s Top Colleges, and The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College, which characterized Franciscan as “joyfully Catholic.” Visit us at Franciscan.edu.

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“I am grateful to be a part of a university that focuses on the students and their academic growth.�

Edith Lloyd-Etuwewe of West Mifflin

Biology major Studied in India

Edith wants to be an obstetrician/gynecologist. To help prepare for a career in medicine, she interned at Bradford Regional Medical Center shadowing doctors and spent her summer in India learning about traditional medicine.

Find out how Pitt-Bradford can help you go beyond.

Visit www.upb.pitt.edu or call 1-800-872-1787.

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Franciscan University Academically Excellent • Passionately Catholic

Undergraduate Majors

Graduate Programs

Online Programs

Theology Business Administration Nursing Catechetics Education Psychology Communication Arts Biology Philosophy English and more

MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling MA Philosophy MA Theology MBA MS Education MS Educational Administration MS Nursing/ Family Nurse Practitioner

MA Catechetics & Evangelization MBA MS Education With Concentration in •Online Instruction, •Reading Endorsement, or •Educational Administration

APPLY TODAY @ franciscan.edu 1235 University Blvd. • Steubenville, Ohio 43952 • 800-783-6220 • franciscan.edu

Franciscan University of Steubenville is committed to principles of equal opportunity and is an equal opportunity employer.

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