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Saint Joseph's University
Seal of Saint Joseph's University
Motto The Hawk Will Never Die!
Established September 15, 1851
Type Private
President Timothy R. Lannon, S.J.
Staff 815
Undergraduates 4,250 (2006)
Postgraduates 2,770 (2006)
Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Campus Urban, 65 acres (263,000 m²)
Colors Crimson & Grey
Mascot Hawks
Website http://www.sju.edu
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Saint Joseph's University is a private, coeducational Roman Catholic university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The school was founded in 1851 as Saint Joseph's College by the Society of Jesus. Today, Saint Joseph's University is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. Saint Joseph's University educates over 7,000 students each year in over 40 undergraduate majors, 10 special-study options, 20 study abroad programs, 52 graduate study areas, and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership. The school is one of 142 nationwide with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter and AACSB business school accreditation.

Beyond the influences of the Jesuit community, the Roman Catholic Church, the Philadelphia metropolitan area, and the requirements of American higher education as a whole, Saint Joseph’s has been shaped by a multitude of wider forces. These have ranged from the Civil War, World War I and World War II, and the Great Depression, to the counterculture of the 1960s and the information age of the twenty-first century.

In 1970, ownership of Saint Joseph's College was transferred to a private corporation governed by a Board of Trustees. That same year, women were admitted for the first time. In 1978, Saint Joseph's College was elevated to the rank of university.

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In telling the story of Saint Joseph’s in Saint Joseph's, Philadelphia's Jesuit University: 150 Years, author David R. Contosta examines five intertwined and shifting forces that have shaped the university since its founding in the mid-nineteenth century. These have been the fortunes of Philadelphia and its surrounding suburbs, the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), the Roman Catholic Church, the overall development of American higher education, and a welter of external events during 15 decades of national and world history.

In the book, Contosta shows how four successive locations of this institution have paralleled the development of Philadelphia itself. Starting out in 1851 on the site of Old Saint Joseph’s Church, the city’s first Roman Catholic parish, the fledgling college soon outgrew an increasingly noisy and commercialized location on Willing’s Alley, near Fourth and Walnut Streets. From there the college moved in 1856 to a building at Juniper and Filbert Streets, then in a prosperous residential neighborhood near the future site of City Hall. In 1889 Saint Joseph’s inaugurated its third site at Seventeenth and Stiles Streets in North Philadelphia, in the heart of Philadelphia’s booming industrial zone. Then, in 1927, in recognition of population shifts toward the western part of the city and into the western suburbs, the college moved to 54th and City Avenue in Wynnefield, at the very entrance to Philadelphia’s fashionable Main Line. In the post-World War II period, Saint Joseph’s began to acquire properties across City Avenue on the Main Line itself, propelling the institution physically as well as culturally into the suburbs proper.

As Saint Joseph’s was evolving with the city and its suburbs, it became more and more enmeshed into the mainstream of American higher education. In the process, the college had to abandon the Jesuit tradition of a seven-year course of studies, which combined both secondary and higher education. Saint Joseph’s also greatly altered its governance system in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in concert with many other Catholic colleges and universities, when it legally separated ownership of the college from the Society of Jesus. In 1970, Saint Joseph’s admitted women to all its programs for the first time, and in 1978 it took the additional step of becoming a university.

As a Jesuit institution, Saint Joseph’s was by definition Catholic. A militant Catholicism, often typical of the Jesuits, was evident during the college’s earlier decades, when Catholics found themselves a somewhat spurned minority in an overwhelmingly Protestant nation. But with the election of John F. Kennedy as the country’s first Catholic president in 1960 and the emphasis on ecumenical dialog coming out of Vatican II, such militancy vanished quickly.


Undergraduate Business Programs:

  • Accounting
  • Decision and Systems Sciences
  • Finance
  • Food Marketing
  • International Business
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Pharmaceutical Marketing

Graduate Business Programs:

  • MBA (concentrations: Accounting, Decision and System Sciences, Finance, Health and Medical Services, Human Resource Management, International Business, International Marketing, Management, Marketing)
  • MS in Human Resource Management
  • MS in Financial Services
  • MS in International Marketing
  • MS in Decision & System Sciences
  • Executive MBA
  • Executive MS in Food Marketing
  • Executive MBA in Food Marketing
  • Executive MBA in Pharmaceutical Marketing
  • China Programs

Post-MBA Certificate Program:

  • Finance
  • Financial Analysis and Reporting
  • Health and Medical Services
  • Human Resource Management
  • Information Systems
  • International Marketing
  • Management
  • Marketing

[edit] Athletics

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Saint Joseph's University is home of the Hawks, the university's athletic program. It fields teams in 20 varsity sports. It competes in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. It belongs to the Atlantic Ten Conference. Because the Atlantic 10 does not support men's lacrosse, the Hawks play that sport in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. Along with the Atlantic 10, Saint Joseph's is a member of the Philadelphia Big 5, enhancing rivalries with Temple University and Villanova University. In 2004, the Saint Joseph's men's basketball team almost finished with a undefeated regular season suffering their only loss to Xavier University in the Atlantic 10 tournament. In the NCAA tournament that year, they lost to Oklahoma State by two points in the Elite Eight. The Saint Joseph's basketball teams play most of their home games at Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse on the school's campus, while some games are played at the Palestra on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. Saint Joseph's University also offers 30 intramural and recreational programs. Their major historic rival has been the Explorers of La Salle University, especially in men's basketball, although a heated rivalry with Villanova University (known locally as "The Holy War," because of their Roman Catholic affiliations – St. Joseph's with the Jesuits and Villanova with the Augustinians) has also developed recently.

Fans of the Hawks often chant "The Hawk Will Never Die!". Since the school's undefeated season, this chant has gained familiarity with the team's opponents. In 2003, Sports Illustrated listed that cheer among The 100 Things You Gotta Do Before You Graduate (Whatever the Cost), calling it "the most defiant cheer in college sports"<ref>The 100 Things You Gotta Do Before You Graduate (Whatever the Cost), Sports Illustrated</ref>.

Saint Joseph's University will host first and second round games of the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. The games will be played at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 19 and March 21.

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The Atlantic 10
Charlotte • Dayton • Duquesne • Fordham • George Washington • La Salle • UMass • Rhode Island • Richmond • Saint Bonaventure • Saint Joseph's • Saint Louis • Temple • Xavier


Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities
Boston College • Canisius College • College of the Holy Cross • Creighton University • Fairfield University • Fordham University • Georgetown University • Gonzaga University • John Carroll University • Le Moyne College • Loyola University Chicago • Loyola College in Maryland • Loyola Marymount University • Loyola University New Orleans • Marquette University • Regis University • Rockhurst University • Saint Louis University • Saint Joseph's University • Saint Peter's College • Santa Clara University • Seattle University • Spring Hill College • University of Detroit Mercy • University of San Francisco • University of Scranton • Wheeling Jesuit University • Xavier University
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Colleges and Universities in Metropolitan Philadelphia
Arcadia University • Art Institute of Philadelphia • Bryn Mawr College • Cabrini College • Chestnut Hill College • Curtis Institute of Music • Delaware Valley College • Drexel University • Eastern University • Gratz College • Haverford College • Holy Family University • Immaculata University • La Salle University • Lincoln University • Manor College • Moore College of Art and Design • Neumann College • Peirce College • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts • Pennsylvania College of Optometry • Philadelphia Biblical University • Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine • Philadelphia University • Reconstructionist Rabbinical College • The Restaurant School • Rosemont College • Saint Joseph's University • Swarthmore College • Temple University • Thomas Jefferson University • Tyler School of Art • University of the Arts • University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey • University of the Sciences in Philadelphia • University of Pennsylvania • Ursinus College • Villanova University • West Chester University • Westminster Theological Seminary • Widener University
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