Buffalo, New York’s second largest city, is a vibrant college town and Canisius is right in the heart of it. Live music and theatre, clubs, restaurants and coffee houses, boutiques and shops, the zoo, professional sports, museums and art galleries are all right on our doorstep – not to mention a spectacular Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park with golf, tennis and a track for running, walking or blading. Lake Erie beaches, Niagara Falls and fabulous ski slopes are all nearby. Check our website for favorite student “hot spots.”
Buffalo is a dynamic learning lab, too. Canisius students enjoy incredible internships with the region’s wealth of businesses, government and service agencies, arts and cultural organizations, media outlets and practically any other place you could think of. And because we’re on the Canadian border, there are international opportunities as well.
No wonder more than 40% of our undergrads, and 70% of freshmen, live on campus – 80% of our student residences are new or newly renovated. From suite-style dorms to townhouses and apartments, from international residence options to science and honors floors, there’s a comfortable choice for everyone.
Canisius is continually upgrading to keep all of our academic, sports and recreational facilities at the state of the art. Among the countless advantages our students enjoy: high-tech classrooms, wireless zones, fully equipped science labs with professional-quality equipment, a media center completely outfitted for digital video and audio production, advanced computer labs, a Bloomberg terminal for access to world financial markets, dedicated labs and equipment for physical education and athletic training, and a great deal more. Next on our major project agenda: a spectacular interdisciplinary science center.
Among our 3,461 undergraduates, you’ll find students from 35 states and 21 countries, making our annual International Fest a truly major event. Hundreds of students, faculty and staff – adults and children alike – celebrate ethnic diversity in music, dance and storytelling, enjoy foods from around the world, and get swept up in such exotic activities as origami, West African dance lessons, Japanese calligraphy, henna painting and more.
The Canisius calendar is packed with activities, from stimulating lectures to enthralling concerts, exhibits and other arts events. Accomplished authors, distinguished scholars and luminaries from every field of endeavor regularly visit our campus and our classes.
Campus Ministry offers plenty of ways for students – and anyone at the college – to get involved with service to the local community. Organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, Journey’s End Refugee Services, Catholic Central School, VIVE la Casa, Roswell Park Cancer Institute and many others love Canisius volunteers
SUCCESSFUL OUTCOMES
At Canisius, you’ll enjoy the flexibility to explore new interests and discover new talents. You’ll have the freedom to blend a myriad of choices into your own custom-made curriculum, aimed at your own rewarding career. You’ll benefit from our “lifetime guarantee” – the privilege of consulting the knowledgeable counselors and state-of-the-art resources of our Career Center at any time. With more than 37,500 living alumni, the Canisius network extends across the country and around the world. And you’ll be part of it for life…
A few ways we measure success
More than 92 percent of our recent graduates are employed in their field of choice or attending graduate or professional schools. Many receive prestigious grants and fellowships, and are admitted to highly competitive graduate programs.
In the last 18 years, 35 national fellowships and scholarships have been awarded to Canisius graduates, including the Fulbright Scholarship, Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, Andrew M. Mellon Fellowship, the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship and the Harry Truman Scholarship. One recent fine arts graduate won a Fulbright to study film in Australia.
Canisius is rated in the top ten percent of liberal arts colleges in the number of graduates who have earned PhDs in the sciences over the past 75 years. The college ranks 15th among all colleges in the sciences, fourth in chemistry, eighth in physics and 19th in the life sciences and mathematics.
Canisius biology majors achieve an outstanding rate of acceptance to graduate and professional schools, including medical, dental and veterinary medicine, averaging 95 percent over the last ten years. In the last five years, we produced three Fulbright scholars and eight graduates were admitted into extremely competitive combined MD/PhD programs.
Our biochemistry/chemistry department ranks among the top ten percent of all U.S. liberal arts colleges. Thirty-five percent of recent graduates received full scholarships to PhD programs in chemistry or biochemistry.
Virtually all physics majors who decide to apply to graduate school are accepted, and many attend some of the most prestigious programs in the country.
Ditto for psychology majors, whose fields of study include psychology and school psychology, counseling, social work, law and others.
Canisius business school alumni are leading successful for-profit and not-for-profit enterprises everywhere. Recent graduates are working for a wide range of business, banking, investment, accounting and other firms, including major companies in and outside the U.S.
Our accounting department has a stellar record. Besides our outstanding CPA pass rate, virtually every graduate has secured a job or admission to graduate school.
Virtually all graduates of our entrepreneurship program are involved in their own business ventures.
We have an outstanding law school acceptance record, sending our alumni to such institutions as Georgetown, Columbia, Notre Dame and Cornell. One is a summa cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.
Students in all of our education programs consistently achieve a very high passing rate for New York State teacher certification exams, including content specialties.
Our physical education graduates have achieved an excellent rate of acceptance into top graduate schools, and many have been awarded assistantships and scholarships.
Among our hundreds of accomplished liberal arts graduates are the producer of a national TV news program, a senior vice president at a major movie studio, a business columnist for a national daily newspaper, an editor of a publishing house, the chief of the Paris Bureau of The New York Times, a reporter for USA Today, an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy, a consultant to the European Union, members of the New York State Assembly and State Supreme Court, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, an Air Force colonel, plus countless practitioners of law and other distinguished professions.
FAST FACTS
Canisius College is a private comprehensive university founded by German Jesuits in 1870.
Web site http://www.canisius.edu
Location Buffalo, New York
Student Profile 3,461 undergraduates (43% male, 57% female); 35 states, 21 countries.
Faculty Profile 215 full-time faculty. 12:1 student/faculty ratio. Average class size is 17.
Residence Life Moderately residential: 41% of students live on campus. Athletics NCAA Division I, Metro Atlantic