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What sets JCU Apart?

At JCU, we have a bigger vision of college. We’re here to equip you with all the tools you need to move forward as a confident and compassionate leader and citizen. Our vision is greater than the pursuit of a degree; it’s a quest of courageous discovery that empowers you to think critically, explore passionately, and understand and adapt to societal, ethical, and environmental challenges. You’ll be encouraged and supported as you pursue your dreams, find opportunities in the face of challenges, and build your network for a life of success and exploration. So if you’re ready to develop the skills employers seek in a complicated world that needs your leadership skills, then it’s time to take the next step with a Jesuit education from John Carroll University.   

The JCU Difference

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Rankings

#2 in the 2020 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Rankings, among Best Regional Universities in the Midwest.
#3 regionally in Best Undergraduate Teaching
#6 regionally in Most Innovative

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A place to thrive

At JCU, you'll get career-ready by immersing yourself in today’s environmental, societal, and ethical challenges. You’ll hone the exact skills employers seek as you challenge yourself to consider how your in-depth Jesuit education can impact the world in meaningful ways.

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Connections to endless opportunities

The combination of JCU’s experiential learning platform, professional development programs, connections to business and industry, and a far-ranging alumni network means you’re always just one call, text, or handshake away from the next opportunity. Not to mention, Cleveland is at your doorstep, where more than 500 JCU grads own or lead businesses.

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A Jesuit tradition of excellence

As a Jesuit University, we embody a strong, lasting tradition called cura personalis—care for the whole person. You’ll engage in a formative liberal arts education, world-class teaching, dedicated advising, and a caring faculty and staff who can equip you to become an inspired leader and serve the greater good.

The depth and breadth of a degree from the Boler College of Business will prepare you as a leader capable of making difficult and ethical choices. As a Boler student, we’ll help you map out and execute an academic and experiential learning plan that will launch you into a career with the skills and experience to change the world. Our close location to Cleveland means that you’ll have access to alumni and internships throughout the city at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sherwin-Williams, Akron-based Goodyear, and many more. And these internships often lead to jobs.

No matter where technology or industry goes, you’ll be ready to adapt and lead change. Can technology and big data make the world a better place? It may bring greater safety, health, convenience, and economic opportunity, yet it may also be used to produce inequality, discrimination, and violations of privacy. As a computer science, healthcare information technology, or data science major, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to gain real-world experience at Fortune 500 companies as well as at start-ups and the Cleveland Clinic. You’ll also explore the complex relationships between data, technology, and society.

Innovations in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics lead to new products, emerging systems, and life-changing discoveries that shape our world and build our future. JCU students gain hands-on, real-world experience by collaborating with STEM faculty mentors to conduct cutting-edge research. Our faculty members are heavily involved in studying emerging science and technology and actively involve JCU students to be active partners. This means you'll be learning and conducting research alongside mentors that are leaders in their respective fields.

Located just 10 miles from Downtown Cleveland, you'll have opportunities available to advance your career in expanding fields of science, healthcare, and technology. Students majoring in the sciences and technology have interned at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, NASA Glenn Research Center, the Cleveland Botanical Garden, Parker Hannifin, and Sherwin Williams.

John Carroll looks at entrepreneurship as a way to develop innovative thinking and an enterprising mindset, with a focus on teaching students to recognize opportunities in both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. While academic entrepreneurship programs were once exclusively business-focused, the entrepreneurship minor is available to all students at John Carroll, regardless of major.

The Muldoon Center for Entrepreneurship offers programs like the Student Hatchery, a unique resource to incubate your idea and bring your product or service to market. This program opens doors for students through hands-on experience with professors and professional entrepreneurs from successful local businesses.

The JCU Difference

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Find Your Program

We believe the challenge of rigorous academics balanced by the encouragement of an award-winning faculty will unleash transformative growth and prepare you to make a positive and lasting impact in the world.

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Opportunities to Lead

Our liberal arts curriculum will expand your knowledge and shape your world perspective. The opportunities we offer outside of the classroom will develop you as a whole person, meaning your résumé will rise to the top of every stack.

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Service Opportunities

Our students live JCU’s mission as men and women for and with others in myriad ways. The 146,000+ annual student service hours reflect a commitment to social justice and our Jesuit mission.

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Mission-Based Scholarships

Our merit-based scholarships and highly competitive mission-based scholarship programs provide meaningful experiences that will help you think critically and reflect on every dimension of life, using your mind and heart to inform purposeful action.

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Meet your future.

Students achieving incredible success.

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Class of 2021

Sophie Rodgers

I have experienced tremendous growth as a student and as a person at JCU...all while being encouraged and supported by a strong community that nurtures and guides me to live my most authentic self.

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Class of 2018

Danny Markino

I’m thankful to have gained a well-rounded liberal arts education while competing athletically on the national stage and garnering experience in my career field at the highest level–all as an undergrad at JCU.

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Class of 2019

Ryan Fitch

I ended up being offered a full-time job from my JCU internship at a digital innovation consulting firm in Chicago. I’m also going to graduate school online to keep learning more about data science. I couldn’t be happier with the ways JCU gave me the knowledge, skills, and confidence I needed to start strong in my career from day one.

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70+ Academic Programs

Our integrative core curriculum focuses on skills needed to succeed in a continually changing world. You are empowered to discover your path for a transformative future.

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500+ Businesses in NE Ohio owned or led by JCU alumni

Whatever you expect from our tight-knit community in University Heights, Ohio, prepare for that expectation to be surpassed. Our graduates consistently outpace, outperform, and lead.

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100+ Student Groups

Are you a music enthusiast? Join an ensemble. Do you love frisbee? There’s an intramural team for you. Whether you’re looking to change the world or just share a laugh with friends, more than 100 student groups are waiting for you to explore.

Empower your future

Are you ready for your Inspired Future?

If you’re ready to turn challenges into opportunities, learn and live for a greater purpose, and join a community of dreamers and advocates, mentors and scholars, who, like you, yearn to be more and do, then we are ready for you.

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