Regional Campuses

Extending the resources of the University throughout the state, the five Regional Campuses—Avery Point, Greater Hartford, Stamford, Torrington, and Waterbury— provide Connecticut's citizens with diversified educational programs: master's degrees, four-year undergraduate degrees, two-year general education programs for Storrs-bound students, and, for returning adult students, a bachelor of general studies degree and non-credit courses. Each regional campus has a specific mission based on the strengths and needs of its community and region, but all have faculty with active research programs and all take pride in individualized student support services. Faculty, students, and courses meet the same criteria as those at Storrs , and are also linked to Storrs and to each other through the latest technology for distance learning. Read about each individual campus and find out what it can do for you.

Avery Point Campus

Joseph Comprone, Ph.D., Associate Vice Provost and Director www.averypoint.uconn.edu

Link to the Avery Point Campus website for more information.

Avery Point is the University of Connecticut 's campus-by-the-sea, established in 1967 on the seventy-three-acre Gatsby-era estate of industrialist Morton Plant. Situated directly on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Thames River in Groton, the Avery Point campus offers a broad range of day and evening courses in an environment enhanced by the ever-present sights and sounds and smells — the very feel — of the ocean.

UConn Avery Point offers a wide range of courses, including those leading to completion of the Bachelor’s degrees in American Studies, Coastal Studies, and Maritime Studies, creating ideal degree completion opportunities for transfer students, as well as for continuing UConn students. Also, students may select from extensive academic program offerings in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, as well as the professional Schools of Education, Business, Pharmacy, and Nursing. Avery Point students enrolled in these programs can look forward to a smooth transition to Storrs at the end of the freshman or sophomore year, depending on their major.

The campus offers a significant number of courses in the evening.  This scheduling accommodates the needs of working students and returning adults enrolled in the Bachelor of General Studies program.  The BGS program is a junior-senior level interdisciplinary degree program for non-traditional part-time students, tailored to individual student needs and goals. Students may complete the entire BGS degree program at the Avery Point campus.

The campus’s Academic Center is an active and popular hub for supplemental instruction programs, tutorial help, and assistance with specific projects including writing, math, the sciences, study skills, and computer literacy.  Academic resource facilities include Avery Point’s 35,000-volume library, which is networked for computerized searches and Internet access to numerous bibliographic and full-text databases and which provides traditional library services as well. The campus library also includes growing special collections in coastal and maritime studies.

The Coastal Studies classes and laboratories are located in the new Marine Sciences Building.  The undergraduate academic complex features newly renovated chemistry and physics laboratories, a state-of-the-art personal computer laboratory, distance learning facilities, high-tech classrooms, wireless classrooms, library, and study lounge, the UConn Co-Op bookstore, and other classrooms, laboratories, and seminar rooms.

Campus venues for social functions and cultural activities include the Avery Point Student Center, the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art, the Branford House mansion, a newly renovated gym and pool facility, and an expanding waterfront recreation program.

* Read an Advance article about the Avery Point Campus.

Stamford Campus

Veronica Makowsky, Ph.D., Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
and Regional Campus Administration
www.tri-campus.uconn.edu

Link here to the Tri-Campus for more information.

While retaining their own unique characteristics, the Greater Hartford, Torrington , and Waterbury campuses work together as a team, sharing faculty, facilities, and resources as a Tri-Campus. Through this partnership, the University can offer commuter students the opportunity to complete four-year degree programs without having to travel to the Storrs Campus. The Tri-Campus offers Bachelor's Degrees in Business and Technology, Human Development and Family Studies, Psychology, Urban and Community Studies, and American Studies. Master's Degrees in Business Administration, Nursing, Public Administration, Survey Research, Education with Teacher Certification for College Graduates, and the Social Work Program are also offered.

Through collaborative efforts with the University's 25-year-old BGS program, which provides evening and weekend courses for returning adult students at the Junior-Senior level; with the Cooperative Extension Service; and with the region's Community Colleges, the Tri-Campus team welcomes and meets the needs of area commuter students.

Hartford Campus

As its name indicates, the Greater Hartford Campus serves a broad section of the area’s populace. Opened in 1946 in the City of Hartford, the University of Connecticut’s Greater Hartford Campus moved in 1970 to its present park-like location in West Hartford.  The Greater Hartford Campus offers students from the Hartford Metropolitan Region the flexibility of balancing family, work, and other personal commitments while receiving the full benefit of the University of Connecticut’s high quality education and resources.

The Greater Hartford Campus offers a wide range of Liberal Arts and Sciences courses and degrees to over 1430 undergraduate and more than 600 graduate students.  Students pursue undergraduate degrees in American Studies, Business and Technology, General Studies, Human Development and Family Studies, Individualized Studies, Psychology, and Urban and Community Studies. The Center for Continuing Studies provides a number of certificate program options, in addition to the Bachelor of General Studies, an interdisciplinary degree program tailored to meet individual needs and goals of returning, non-traditional, part-time adult students. Due to the Greater Hartford Campus’ proximity to the State Capitol and legislative offices, the University’s Department of Public Policy is based on the Greater Hartford Campus and offers a Master of Arts in Survey Research and a Master of Public Administration, as well as certificate programs. The University’s School of Social Work is also located at the Greater Hartford Campus and offers a Master of Social Work and Ph.D in Social Work. GHC also offers the popular one-year Master of Education with Teacher Certification Program for College Graduates.

Located in a beautiful, 58-acre setting, the Greater Hartford campus facilities include the Harleigh B. Trecker Library, which is fully integrated with and linked to the University Library System, including Storrs, all Regional Campuses, the Law School, and the UConn Health Center; a state- of-the-art Information Technology Center which features high-tech computer labs and distance learning facilities; the Writing and Quantitative Center, a peaceful study environment for tutorial help and assistance in Writing, Math, Accounting, Chemistry, Biology and Statistics; the UConn Co-op; and an art gallery.  The Hartford County Cooperative Extension Center delivers objective, research-based information to help manage resources in the community.

The Greater Hartford Campus serves the Metropolitan Region through extensive community outreach programs which connect the university with those who are underrepresented or disadvantaged in the community.  Through on-going partnerships with schools, businesses, government, national and neighborhood organizations, GHC outreach provides hands-on learning experiences and serves as a model of community service, opportunity, and success for urban campuses.

* Read an Advance article about freshman students at the Hartford Campus. ( Photo by Sahand Dailamipour)

Torrington Campus

In the Fall of 1957 the University of Connecticut began offering late afternoon classes at Torrington High School . The popular program grew rapidly, and the University of Connecticut Torrington Regional Campus was established in 1965 as a result of a generous bequest from Julia Brooker Thompson.

The Torrington Campus has traditionally provided students with the opportunity to begin coursework towards many of the University of Connecticut's approximately 100 majors, or complete a four-year Bachelor's Degree in General Studies. Now, in partnership with the regional campuses in Waterbury and Greater Hartford, the Torrington Campus is also able to offer baccalaureate degrees in American Studies, Business and Technology, Human Development and Family Studies, Psychology, and Urban and Community Studies. Students can even design their own majors by working with faculty from two or more academic departments and complete an Individualized Major program.

Quality of instruction, small class size, and the accessibility of faculty set the Torrington Campus apart from other institutions. On average, the instructor to student ratio is 1 to 20. This learning environment, not common at the university level, leads to close faculty-student relationships where students receive individual guidance and personal encouragement from their instructors. Day and evening courses are available to meet the diverse needs of both traditional and returning adult students. In addition to academics, students are offered a wide variety of social events sponsored by the Associated Student Government Senate, an organization which promotes and develops student leadership on campus.

The 100-acre Torrington Campus is located on a quiet, rural hilltop on the outskirts of the City of Torrington . It is the first fully wireless campus in the University system. The M. Adela Eads Classroom Building hosts a 17,000-volume library, electronically linked with all University libraries, a high tech classroom, an art studio, a computer lab, a Distance Learning Classroom, a University Co-Op Bookstore, a large auditorium, and a café and lounge where the campus community gathers. The Distance Learning Classroom links UConn Torrington to Storrs and the other regional campuses for extended instructional opportunities. The Learning Center is an active and popular resource where students go to hone their study skills and for supplemental writing instruction, math tutoring, and collaborative study.

The Torrington Campus continues its long-standing and active involvement in the neighboring community. It is home to the University's Litchfield County Writers Project, which houses a collection of more than 1100 published works by Litchfield County authors. Through the efforts by the Litchfield County Writers Project, local authors are regularly brought to the campus as part of special courses that are open to the community. Torrington Campus students tutor at-risk students in both Torrington Middle School and Torrington High School .

* Read an Advance article about the Torrington Campus.

Waterbury Campus