Saint Joseph's University

Saint Joseph's University
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This article is about the university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For the university in Lebanon, see Saint Joseph University. For the university in Connecticut, see University of Saint Joseph (Connecticut). For the former college and university in New Brunswick, Canada, see University of St. Joseph's College.
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Latin: Universitas Sancti Iosephi
Former names
    Saint Joseph's College (1851-1978)
Motto     Spirit, Intellect, Purpose
Established     September 15, 1851
Type     Private Nonprofit
Research Coeducational
Affiliation     Roman Catholic (Jesuit)
Endowment     $209 million (5/31/2014)
President     Mark C. Reed, Ed.D.
Provost     Rosalind Reichard, Ph.D.
Academic staff
    319 full-time
Students     9,025
Undergraduates     4,850
Postgraduates     3,520
Other students
    590 (professionals)
Location     Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
39°59′43″N 75°14′20″W
Campus     Urban - 114 acres (46.1 ha)
Fight song     "Oh When the Hawks
Go Flying In"
Colors      Crimson  and  Gray
Athletics     NCAA Division I
Atlantic 10 Conference
Big 5 NEC
Sports     20 varsity sports teams
(10 men's & 10 women's)
Nickname     Hawks
Mascot     The Hawk
Affiliations     AJCU ACCU
PCRC NAICU
Website     www.sju.edu
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Saint Joseph's University (also referred to as SJU or St. Joe's) is a private, coeducational Roman Catholic Jesuit university located in the Overbrook neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, and the Lower Merion Township on the historic Pennsylvania Main Line. The University was founded in 1851 as Saint Joseph's College by the Society of Jesus. Saint Joseph's is the seventh oldest Jesuit university in the United States and one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.

Saint Joseph's University educates over 9,000 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students each year through the Erivan K. Haub School of Business, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Program of Professional & Liberal Studies, and the Haub Degree Completion Program. The University offers over 60 undergraduate majors, 53 graduate programs, 28 study-abroad programs, 12 special-study options, a co-op program, a joint degree program with Thomas Jefferson University, and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership. It has 17 centers and institutes, including the prestigious Kinney Center for Autism Education & Support and Pedro Arrupe Center for Business Ethics.

Saint Joseph's has grown in physical size and scope since 2001 with the addition of the Maguire Campus, construction of new campus buildings, and the addition of new majors and programs annually. For the 2014 U.S. News and World Report rankings, in the Master's Universities (North) category, Saint Joseph's was ranked number 11.

The Saint Joseph's University athletics teams are called the Hawks. The Hawks are a NCAA Division I program that compete in the Atlantic-10 Conference and Philadelphia's Big 5. The official colors of the University are crimson and grey. The school mascot is the famous Hawk, which never stops flapping its wings while in costume.