Cedar Crest College

Location and Contact Information

The campus is in a medium-sized city.

Overview

Cedar Crest College is a private, liberal arts college for women located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1867 and is an academically independent college.

Cedar Crest College offers elementary education, secondary education, and graduate programs to its students. It also confers bachelor of arts and science degrees in various fields of study including Fine Arts, Nursing Science, Business Administration, Political Science, and Criminal justice.

Students are members of various clubs and organizations including the American Association of University Women, Alpha Psi Omega, Student Dietetic Association, Beta Beta Beta, Kappa Delta Pi, Alpha Mu Gamma, Student Penn. State Education Association, Sigma Tau Delta, and Sigma Theta Tau.

Highlights (vs. Other Schools)

• Many students concentrating in science, nursing and emergency medicine, art studies, and therapy and counseling.
• Large number of students.
• High faculty salary.
• High female/male ratio.
• High percentage of students are from out-of-state.
• Superior share of faculty on tenure track.
• Number of dorm rooms for students.
• Many mature (40+ year old) students.
• Large number of programs of study offered.

School characteristics:

• The school is private, not-for-profit.
• Academic calender: Semester.
• Carnegie classification: Baccalaureate Colleges, General.

Features of note:

• The school offers a faculty tenure system.
• There are one or more libraries on-campus.
• Campus housing is available.
• Distance learning is available.
• Weekend study is an option.
• Part-time classes are available.

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Degrees Awarded (in 2009-2010)

Faculty

Tenure (2009-2010):

Students

Student enrollment was 1,872 in 2009-2010 (1,576 full-time equivalent).

About 1% of the freshmen class in 2009-2010 was male and women were 99% of the class.

Undergrads are 90% of enrolled students and graduate students are 10%.

Students under 25 years old represent 54% of the student body. About 15% of the school is at least 40 years of age.

Admissions Summary (2009-2010)

SAT Test Scores:

Room and Board

Cedar Crest provides on-campus housing for 560 of its 1,576 (full-time) students (as of 2009-2010).

Athletics

The school is in the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference for major sports.

Graduate School Focus

Cedar Crest offers graduate (post-Bachelor) studies. The highest degree offered is the Master.

Graduate offerings include continuing professional education.

Programs of Study

(Number of degrees in 2009-2010 in parentheses)

ART STUDIES (10 awarded)

• Art/Art Studies

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (40 awarded)

• Accounting
• Accounting and Related Services
• Business Administration and Management
• Business Administration, Management and Operations
• Business, Management, Marketing & Related Support Services
• Human Resources Management and Services
• Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration
• Marketing
• Marketing/Marketing Management

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (4 awarded)

• Computer Science
• Computer and Information Sciences
• Information Science/Studies

CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (0 awarded)

• Environmental Science

DRAMA AND PERFORMING ARTS (4 awarded)

• Dance
• Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts

EDUCATION AND TEACHING (61 awarded)

• Early Childhood Education and Teaching
• Education
• Education/Teaching Individuals - Early Childhood Spec Ed Pgms
• Elementary Education and Teaching
• Secondary Education and Teaching
• Special Education and Teaching
• Teacher Assistant/Aide
• Teacher Education, Multiple Levels

ENGINEERING (0 awarded)

• Biomedical/Medical Engineering

FAMILY AND SOCIAL WORK (24 awarded)

• Foods, Nutrition, and Wellness Studies
• Social Work

FINE ARTS (1 awarded)

• Fine Arts and Art Studies

LAW (0 awarded)

• Legal Assistant/Paralegal
• Pre-Law Studies

LIBERAL ARTS (13 awarded)

• English Language and Literature
• Hispanic-American,Puerto Rican & Mexican-American/Chicano Studies
• History
• Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
• Political Science and Government
• Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• Sociology
• Women's Studies

MATHEMATICS (3 awarded)

• Mathematics

MEDIA (7 awarded)

• Communication Studies/Speech Communication and Rhetoric

MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION (15 awarded)

• Health Services Administration
• Health/Health Care Administration/Management

MEDICAL SUPPORT AND TECHNOLOGY (6 awarded)

• Clinical Laboratory Science/Medical Technology/Technologist
• Nuclear Medical Technology/Technologist

MEDICINE (5 awarded)

• Gerontology
• Neuroscience
• Pre-Dentistry Studies
• Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies
• Pre-Veterinary Studies

MUSIC (0 awarded)

• Music

NURSING AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE (97 awarded)

• Nursing
• Nursing/Registered Nurse (RN, ASN, BSN, MSN)

OFFICE AND ADMINISTRATION (0 awarded)

• Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science

SCIENCE (55 awarded)

• Biochemistry
• Biology/Biological Sciences
• Biopsychology
• Chemistry
• Conservation Biology
• Environmental Biology
• Genetics
• Molecular Genetics
• Physical Sciences

SECURITY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT (13 awarded)

• Criminal Justice/Police Science
• Criminology
• Forensic Science and Technology

THERAPY AND COUNSELING (39 awarded)

• Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• Psychology