With seven schools and colleges all working together, there’s plenty to explore at University of Hartford. You’ll find your own road, but you won’t walk it alone.
At UHart, we help you partner your passion with your dream profession. But beyond just landing a job after graduation, we empower you to rise quickly in your field. Through a multitude of perspectives, you'll gain critical thinking skills and the ability to adapt to change.
Accounting is a professional major that prepares you for entry-level positions in public accounting, management accounting, and financial management.
This program is designed to advance in-demand skills in the fundamental science and technologies to create, develop, and improve aircraft and spacecraft.
This program prepares students with a solid basis in a diverse variety of subjects related to biomechanics, biofluids, and bioinstrumentation.
This program will prepare you for careers in various areas, such as structural engineering, transportation, or environmental engineering. You will learn about design, construction, and maintenance of buildings, bridges, highways, and airports.
This hands-on engineering program focuses on the connection between computer hardware and software design, helping students learn how to solve real-world problems. Its curriculum includes five technical specialty electives, which offers students maximum flexibility to tailor their program to their own interests.
This program allows you to open up your career options by studying both computer science and computer engineering. You take exciting classes in programming, coding, design and analysis, computation, and electrical engineering.
This program covers a branch of engineering concerned with generating, distributing, processing, coding, transmitting, receiving, and deciphering electrical and electromagnetic signals.
This program truly embodies the spirit of creativity and innovation as it is one of the broadest areas of study in engineering.
This program offers students the ability to gain skills in the growing field of robotics and make an impact on the future.
Provides instruction on the management skills and broad-based business knowledge required for the continually changing technical and occupational subjects of the construction industry, such as construction planning, design, and safety.
We have two degrees in biology—a bachelor of science and a bachelor of arts. Explore careers in environmental science, science education, and health care fields with our degrees in Biology.
We also have a degree in biochemistry, where you can study the chemistry of the living world and explore physical and chemical sciences.
This program prepares you to help people improve and maintain their physical fitness, health and quality of life.
This is a combined Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science and Doctor of Physical Therapy degree. It is a pathway for direct entry into the DPT program at UHart.
This program prepares you to help people of all ages live active, productive and independent lives. Occupational therapists make it possible for people to perform “the job of living” and enjoy life to the fullest.
Radiologic technology is a dynamic, fast-paced profession that combined the use of sophisticated medical imaging technology with compassionate care of the ill and injured.
Respiratory care focuses on the care of people with breathing disorders. Patients are of all ages, from premature infants to older adults, in this high-tech, high-touch career.
Learn the ability to read and understand a wide variety of literary texts and express yourself through creative writing.
Students learn about both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors of the industry. Experiencing both sides of the field allows students not only to explore a variety of problems inherent to the industry through classroom discussions, guest speakers, field trips, and assignments, but also to make an educated decision about their future careers.
This program brings together the disciplines of music, dance, and acting. The program addresses the ever-changing aspects and character of theatre and performance.
This program prepares you for a career in the management of all genres of performance. You will learn aspects of production as well as personnel skills.
This program prepares you for a professional career specializing in the areas of sound, lighting, stagecraft, and costumes.
Take your computer science career to a higher level with our master’s degree in computer science. The program combines innovative coursework with research and capstone project opportunities to give you a competitive edge when applying for upper-leveland management positions, or to a PhD in computer science program.
The Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) is an entry-level professional physical therapy program designed for individuals with a bachelor’s degree in another subject area who have satisfied all the prerequisite course requirements and wish to become qualified for licensure as physical therapists.
In partnership with Hartford HealthCare Rehabilitation Network, the University of Hartford offers a 13-month hybrid residency program in orthopedic physical therapy.
This program offers you one of the nation's most comprehensive courses of study. Combining the rigors of conservatory training with a solid foundation in music education, this program prepares you for a career as an elementary and secondary school music educator.
This is a combined Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science and Doctor of Physical Therapy degree. It is a pathway for direct entry into the DPT program at UHart.
This degree prepares nurses at the highest level of nursing education, is fully online, and is designed to enable working nurses to complete their degrees while continuing full-time employment.
This program is an entry-level professional physical therapy program designed for individuals with a bachelor’s degree in another subject area who have satisfied all the prerequisite course requirements and wish to become qualified for licensure as physical therapists.
We prepare students to become competent, self-aware, and compassionate clinical psychologists who are able to function effectively in multiple roles.
The Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership (EdD) program reflects the latest thinking and research on higher education leadership, organizational dynamics, and institutional change.
Studying choral conducting at Hartt offers private conducting lessons, languages and diction, voice study, musicianship, score reading and preparation, performance practice, and an array of academic studies to prepare choral directors for conducting and teaching careers in the community, school, and university settings.
Through studies in traditional concert music, film music, music for the theatre, improvisation, and advanced modern compositional techniques, students are exposed to an ever-changing array of music. Music Composition offers students the guidance they need to express their individuality through their music.
The Guitar Program is the oldest and most developed performance-based guitar program in the country. Our goal is to provide our students the opportunity to develop their performance skills in a professional setting and graduate students who are well-prepared to enter the fields of concert performance and college teaching.
Instrumental Conducting at The Hartt School normally consists of two masters students and two doctoral students, each of whom has the opportunity to rehearse and perform with the Wind Ensemble, Symphony Band, Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, Contemporary Ensemble and Music Theatre and Opera.
As an instrumentalist at Hartt, you receive training in performance, pedagogy, and career development. The instrumental faculty members are all working musicians who perform with orchestras, chamber ensembles, Broadway shows, service bands, pickup groups, and as soloists and studio musicians.
When you choose to study piano at Hartt, you will be immersed in a well-rounded, comprehensive course of study designed to prepare students for professional opportunities.
To everything from private voice lessons, coachings, vocal pedagogy, language and diction study, opera stagecraft, and our invigorating core music curriculum the Doctor of Musical Arts degree program is designed to emphasize the highest level of musicianship, in the focus of vocal study.
Combining the rigors of conservatory training with a solid foundation in music education, the program prepares you for a career as an elementary and secondary school music educator. You will investigate experimental techniques, (quantitative and qualitative), and their application to the advancement of music education practice.
Advance your career with a specialized MBA Certificate. If you already have a graduate degree or MBA from an accredited institution, you can apply earn one our nine certificates by completing four graduate courses.
Certificates include: Business Analytics, Finance, Insurance, Healthcare Management, International Business, Management, Marketing, Project Management, and Supply Chain Management
This certificate program in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) prepares individuals for a career in an exciting field of diagnostic imaging. The program accepts qualified individuals into a 10-month, 21-credit sequence of courses that provides students with both classroom instruction and clinical experience.
The Paralegal Certificate program is designed for students who have a minimum of 60 undergraduate credits (30 credits of which must be in the liberal arts) and therefore have a strong background in general education.
In the College of Arts and Sciences, you develop the critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills you need to pursue a successful career.
Here, you don’t just memorize theories—you collaborate, integrate, and represent your point of view thoughtfully. Classes are small, which means you’ll receive personal attention and support from faculty. You get hands-on experience through internships, research with faculty, and study abroad opportunities. Our interdisciplinary offerings enable you to engage with the world from multiple perspectives.
When you graduate, you will be able to address problems and offer viable solutions, because you will have spent the last four years doing just that.
The Barney School of Business is recognized for its ever-evolving curriculum, tangible learning opportunities, and innovative Career Ready program.
Bloomberg Businessweek and The Princeton Review have ranked Barney as one of the top business schools in the country. Our accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) places Barney among the top five percent of business schools in the world.
You’ll learn how to navigate the business world with confidence, and intern with prestigious organizations like Cigna as you prepare for your career after graduation.
The College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture (CETA) prepares you to solve problems, meet design challenges, and create the future.
At CETA, we don’t just talk about being different, we prove it. You’ll have access to our expansive partnership networks, career-ready programming, and small class sizes.
With our training-intensive curriculum and close faculty mentoring, you’ll be well-prepared to launch a successful career or transition into our graduate programs.
Today’s workforce hungers for creative problem solvers—people who can catapult fresh ideas ahead of the competition.
Whether your goal is to be a visual artist, become a museum curator, or pursue a broad-based education that will prepare you for a wide range of careers, the Hartford Art School will cultivate your creativity.
We offer eight undergraduate studio degree programs and a bachelor’s in art history. Our Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts graduate programs are designed for practicing artists seeking a terminal degree while maintaining their professional careers.
The Hartford Art School provides the foundation for you to succeed no matter where your passion leads.
Welcome to The Hartt School, a performing arts conservatory for music, dance, and theatre. At Hartt, we think the best way to learn and perfect your craft is by doing. That’s why we put on more than 400 performances, recitals, lectures, and master classes each year.
Because our faculty are performers, scholars, and creative artists themselves—at theatres and concert halls around the world—they teach from experience, just as you will learn from your experiences at Hartt.
Through diverse coursework and close mentoring relationships with faculty, you can make your passion your profession.
At Hillyer, we see students for who they are: individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and learning styles.
We’re the opposite of a one-size-fits-all approach to college. With our own Study Center, dedicated faculty, and accessible advisors, your Hillyer experience will be unique to you. Hillyer’s small class sizes — no class has more than 18 students — ensure that you will receive personalized attention.
From your first day on campus, you will be a part of Hillyer College and one of our other schools through our Dual Admission Program. At Hillyer, you'll get the advantage of pursuing your major with extra support.
You also have the added advantage of dual admission, which allows you to earn credits toward your major while receiving one-on-one academic support.
A dynamic leader in the national higher education landscape with deep Connecticut roots, Lawrence P. Ward begins his tenure as the next president of the University of Hartford.
Albani Hunt ’24, a double major in digital media and journalism and computer science, says being accepted to the NBC Sports internship program for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris is surreal. She will be working as a Summer Olympics Production Intern.
The $3 million gift from Stanley Black & Decker will provide scholarships to students from 29 towns within the Greater Hartford region, addressing rising unmet need.
As an undergraduate majoring in computer engineering and electrical engineering, Jonathan Ho '24 had the opportunity to help race a custom-designed, student-built Formula-style car at Michigan International Speedway.
Opening in fall 2024, the Grant Family Track and Field will feature a 400-meter, eight-lane “full pour” track surrounding a new field tailored to field hockey, as well as an adjacent throwing area, and more.