About Western Connecticut State University

Western Connecticut State University (WCSU and WestConn) is a public university circles in Danbury, Connecticut. It was founded in 1903 as a teacher’s learned and is allowance of the Connecticut State University System.

WCSU consists of four schools: the Ancell School of Business, the Macricostas School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Professional Studies, and the School of Visual and Performing Arts. The university offers 38 Bachelor’s and one Associate degree programs, 15 Master’s degree programs, and two doctoral programs. WCSU is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE).

WCSU is house to the Jane Goodall Center for Excellence in Environmental Studies, which is the result of a partnership amongst WCSU and the Jane Goodall Institute (a private non-profit organization that promotes research, education and wildlife conservation). The university’s Westside campus houses the Ives Concert Park, one of the premier produce an effect venues in the area.

Western Connecticut State University is share of the Little East Conference and Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference in NCAA Division III.

Students from New York and New Jersey residents pay in-state tuition; students from New England pay condensed rates because of WCSU’s participation in the New England Board of Higher Education’s Regional Student Program.

Danbury is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located approximately 65 miles northeast of New York City. Danbury’s population at the 2010 census was 80,893.

Danbury is nicknamed the “Hat City” because it was the middle of the American hat industry for a times in the nineteenth and to the lead twentieth centuries. The mineral danburite is named for Danbury though the city itself is named for Danbury in Essex, England.

Danbury is home to Danbury Hospital, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury Fair Mall and Danbury Municipal Airport. In November 2015, USA Today ranked Danbury as the second best city to stir in the United States.