Arcadia University is a private college placed in Glenside, Pennsylvania, United States, on the edges of Philadelphia. An expert's college via Carnegie Classification, the college has a co-instructive understudy populace of pretty nearly 4,000 (undergrad and graduate). The college was positioned 25th in the expert's colleges in the North class by U.S. News & World Report for the 2009 rankings.[4] The 76-section of land (310,000 m2) grounds peculiarities Gray Towers Castle, a National Historic Landmark.
The school was established in Beaver, Pennsylvania in 1853 as Beaver Female Seminary. By 1872, it had accomplished university status, under the protection of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was named Beaver College. The school conceded men from 1872 to 1907, of course constrained enlistment to ladies until 1972.[5] In 1925 Beaver College moved east to Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. In 1928, the school obtained the current grounds in Glenside. The school worked both the Jenkintown and Glenside grounds into the mid-1960s, when it united all exercises onto the Glenside grounds. In July 2001, after accomplishing college status, Beaver College formally transformed its name to Arcadia University. Paradise University is driven by Nicolette DeVille Christensen, Ph.D., the University's 21st president. Christensen was named president on Oct. 11, 2013.
The college offers more than 80 fields of study in its undergrad programs. Undergrad majors are offered in the College of Arts & Sciences, College of Health Sciences, School of Education, and the School of Global Business. There is likewise a choice for understudies to propose an arranged toward oneself noteworthy, which can comprise of both courses offered in Glenside and accessible through study abroad.
Graduate and expert learns at Arcadia University go broadly from the liberal expressions to the essentially proficient, from the doctoral level to workshops. Utopia's universal point of view is reflected in projects, for example, its quickened low maintenance MBA with a Global Perspective, its Master of Arts in International Peace and Conflict Resolution and its new program in Paris, France. The expert's system in Forensic Science is authorize by FEPAC.
The Doctor of Physical treatment system gives worldwide chances to study abroad in London and Pro Bono open doors in Jamaica, Guatemala, and Peru. There are clinical destinations offered the nation over, however fundamentally in the tri-state region.