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Connecticut has 30 four-year degree-granting institutions active in the federal directory — 11 public, 16 private nonprofit, and 3 private for-profit.

The list below is every active, degree-granting institution IPEDS classifies at the four-year level. It is a directory, not a ranking. Two-year colleges, certificate-only schools, and institutions that have closed or stopped reporting are not here.

Four-year institutions
Institution City Control Notes
Albertus Magnus College New Haven Private nonprofit
Arizona College of Nursing - Hartford East Hartford Private for-profit
Central Connecticut State University New Britain Public
Charter Oak State College New Britain Public
Connecticut College New London Private nonprofit
Eastern Connecticut State University Willimantic Public
Fairfield University Fairfield Private nonprofit
Goodwin University East Hartford Private nonprofit
Hartford International University for Religion and Peace Hartford Private nonprofit
Holy Apostles College and Seminary Cromwell Private nonprofit
Mitchell College New London Private nonprofit
Paier College Bridgeport Private for-profit
Post University Waterbury Private for-profit
Quinnipiac University Hamden Private nonprofit Medical school
Sacred Heart University Fairfield Private nonprofit
Southern Connecticut State University New Haven Public
Trinity College Hartford Private nonprofit
United States Coast Guard Academy New London Public
University of Bridgeport Bridgeport Private nonprofit
University of Connecticut Storrs Public Land-grant; Medical school
University of Connecticut-Avery Point Groton Public
University of Connecticut-Hartford Campus Hartford Public
University of Connecticut-Stamford Stamford Public
University of Connecticut-Waterbury Campus Waterbury Public
University of Hartford West Hartford Private nonprofit
University of New Haven West Haven Private nonprofit
University of Saint Joseph West Hartford Private nonprofit
Wesleyan University Middletown Private nonprofit
Western Connecticut State University Danbury Public
Yale University New Haven Private nonprofit Medical school

Public university systems

System membership as recorded in the IPEDS directory. Counts are of four-year public members in this table only, so a system that also runs two-year campuses will show more members in its own materials.

System Four-year public members here
Connecticut State Colleges and Universities 5

Sources
  • NCES IPEDS, Institutional Characteristics directory (HD2024) — the federal directory of postsecondary institutions participating in Title IV programs. Every institution, city, control, and system value above is read directly from that file. Retrieved 2026-08-11 from nces.ed.gov/ipeds.
  • Filters applied: currently active (CYACTIVE), degree-granting (DEGGRANT), and institutional level (ICLEVEL). Flags in the Notes column are the IPEDS HBCU, TRIBAL, LANDGRNT, and MEDICAL fields.

Institution names are IPEDS legal names and sometimes differ from the name a school markets under. Check the institution's own site before relying on any detail here.

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