Mission Statement

The School for University Studies offers candidates who do not meet all of Hofstra's admissions requirements a chance to join the Hofstra undergraduate community through participation in a structured, one-year program. The School's curriculum, which contains a team-taught, interdisciplinary Core course, a two course writing program, and an introductory course in the Liberal Arts, is designed to introduce the many ways that ideas are produced and communicated, and to help students increase the academic skills and habits that enable them to begin and sustain an engagement with this world of ideas during their freshman year of study at the University. Students who complete the School's curriculum should possess the academic skills and habits that will allow them to transition successfully into a degree-granting unit of the University.