Carroll University

Academics

More than 60 areas of study are available in their undergraduate programs. Major undergraduate academic divisions include Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural and Health Sciences, and Humanities and Social Sciences. The most popular undergraduate academic programs include Exercise Science, Nursing, Business, Education, Psychology, Biology, Criminal Justice, Communication, Health Sciences, and Chemistry. Each department offers its own Senior Capstone to serve as a bridge to graduate study and/or a career. All undergraduate students are required to participate in the First Year Program, the Liberal Studies Program, the Senior Capstone Experience, and the Convocation Program.

Highlight on Health Sciences

A particularly strong department of health sciences resides on this campus. Student athletes have a team physician and specialized orthopedic surgeons on staff. Physical therapy students often work with athletes, as well as exercise phsyiologists, biomechanists, and student athlete trainers.

The First Year Program

The First Year Program transitions students from high school to university through the First Year Seminar and a Writing Seminar. The FYS serves to strengthen written and oral expression, the ability to work with others to solve problems, efficient and full use of library resources, and basic information literacy. The writing seminar focuses on student’s ability to translate critical thinking into effective written communication.

Liberal Studies Program

The Liberal Studies Program strives to cultivate attitudes, common knowledge, and intellectual concepts that university-education people should possess. Students are required to complete at least one approved course in each of these seven areas: Understanding the Scientific Way of Knowing, Understanding the Natural World, Understanding Human Behavior, Encountering the Cultures of the World—Past and Present, Understanding the Aesthetic Mode of Knowing, Critical Encounters with Great Ideas of Western Culture, and Perspectives We Live By: Decisions We Make.

Unique Majors

Students may choose to individually design a major. All individually designed majors must be submitted to the Academic Steering Committee for approval no later than a year before the expected graduation.

Honors Programs

The Honors Program provides cultural and social activities on and off campus for all participants. Participants are expected to complete a six-course curriculum including an Honors First Year Seminar, an Honors Writing Seminar, three honors courses that count toward general education requirements, and a one-credit senior honors course.

The school invites students in the top 7.5% of the junior class and the top 10% of the senior class and graduate programs to join Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest, largest, and most selective all-discipline honor society.

Delta Sigma Nu is the university’s honorary scholastic society. Students in the upper 10 percent of the senior class who have completed by graduation 64 letter-graded credits and a total of 100 letter-graded credits are elected to membership.

Study Abroad

There are a broad range of off-campus study options on all continents except Antarctica.

Graduate Programs

Graduate degrees include Masters in Education, Masters in Software Engineering, Doctorate in Physical Therapy, Masters in Business Administration, and Master of Physician Assistant Studies. Some of the most popular programs include Accounting, Business Administration and Economics, Finance, Human Resources, Management, Marketing, Computer Science, Education, Information Technology, and Organizational Leadership.