Academics at Saint Joseph's College

The Academic Center

To help first-year students with the transition to college, we offer study skills workshops, tutoring, writing lab and first-year faculty mentors.

Study abroad

Study abroad in 37 countries, 265 colleges. Member of International Student Exchange Programs (ISEP). Explore your world, immerse yourself in different cultures.

Discover your passion

More than 40 majors, minors and partnership programs.
Classes of just six students are not unusual.
Average class size of 17.
Student faculty ratio 15:1.
First-year students meet with a faculty mentor.
Professors personally advise you.

Out of the classroom, into the bay

Learning ecology by experiencing ecology

student kayaking The Gulf of Maine Environment by Sea Kayak class investigated the "confluence of oceanographic, ecological, biological, geological, and chemical processes" that have led to one of the most biologically productive regions of the world. The class used the Gulf of Maine as a microcosm of similar processes occurring globally.

Meet our resident experts

Marine science professor Dr. Mark Green discovers how increasing ocean acidification causes large-scale die-off of young shellfish, providing one of the first data sets in this emerging field of research on “the other CO2 problem.”

Learn more about our faculty.

Faculty make time for students

Business professor knows everybody's name within five days. Ethics professor invites class over for dinner. Faculty and staff volunteer beside students during Spring Break Workfest.