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Dr. Louise H. Feroe.
Advancing the educational needs of CT's citizens.
At Central, Eastern, Southern and Western, student success is our first priority. In promoting academic quality and student development of the highest quality, we stimulate the intellectual, economic, and social vitality of Connecticut through the preparation of lifelong learners whose civic responsibility, research, scholarship, and professional practices accrue to the benefit of the state, nation, and the international community.
In teaching and technology, engineering and nursing, biology and business, meteorology and mathematics, and scores of cutting edge fields responsive to workforce needs, we provide first-rate higher education. Affordability and accessibility are at our core, and nearly half our students are the first generation in their families to attend college.
Through our students, the Connecticut State University System is a catalyst for Connecticut. We are four comprehensive universities and a system office, connected to one another so that we can better respond to the aspirations of more than 36,000 students, and assist Connecticut in addressing its needs, thereby having an impact on the nation and society as a whole.
We are Connecticut’s largest university system, proud that 86% of our students remain in Connecticut after graduation to learn, to work, and to live -- contributing to the cultural enrichment of the state, energizing intellectual discourse, advancing volunteerism and civic engagement, and strengthening the state's economic competitiveness.
We welcome you to our website and our universities. Look around, and learn more. Nearly everyone in Connecticut knows someone who went to Central, Eastern, Southern or Western - with good reason!
