Quinnipiac University

{{Short description|Private university in Hamden, Connecticut, US}}

{{More citations needed|date=September 2015}}

{{Use American English|date=March 2019}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}}{{Infobox university

| name = Quinnipiac University

| image_upright = .7

| caption =

| former_name = Connecticut College of Commerce (1929–1935)
Junior College of Commerce (1935–1943; 1945–1951)
Quinnipiac College (1951–2000)

| latin_name =

| motto = Qui Transtulit Sustinet (Latin){{Citation |title= QU Graphic Guide |publisher=Quinnipiac University |url=http://www.quinnipiac.edu/prebuilt/pdf/publications/QU_graphic_guide.pdf |access-date=July 9, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141127132523/http://www.quinnipiac.edu/prebuilt/pdf/publications/QU_graphic_guide.pdf |archive-date=November 27, 2014 }}

| mottoeng = "He who transplants, sustains"

| established = {{start date and age|1929}}

| type = Private university

| accreditation = NECHE

| endowment = $674 million (2022)As of March 7, 2022. {{cite report |url=https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Nacubo/Documents/research/2022-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL.ashx?la=en&hash=362DC3F9BDEB1DF0C22B05D544AD24D1C44E318D|title=U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2021 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY20 to FY21 |publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers and TIAA |date=2022 |access-date=June 5, 2023}}

| president = Judy D. Olian

| students = 9,744 (2020)As of October 15, 2020. {{cite web |url=https://www.qu.edu/about-quinnipiac/student-consumer-information/ |publisher=Quinnipiac University |access-date=March 6, 2022|title=Student Consumer Information |date=November 15, 2020 }}

| undergrad = 6,841 (2020)

| postgrad = 2,903 (2020)

| city = Hamden

| state = Connecticut

| country = United States

| campus = Large Suburb{{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Quinni&s=all&id=130226|title=IPEDS – Quinnipiac University}}

| campus_size = {{convert|600|acre}}

| athletics_affiliations = {{hlist|NCAA Division IMAAC|ECAC Hockey|Big East}}

| sports_nickname = Bobcats

| mascot = Boomer the Bobcat

| website = {{url|www.qu.edu}}

| logo = Quinnipiac University logo (2017).svg

| logo_upright =

| academic_affiliations = {{hlist|NAICU|NEASC}}

| image = Quinnipiac University Seal.svg

| faculty = 350 full-time

| colors = Navy, gold, sky blue
{{color box|#0b233f}}{{color box|#fdb427}}{{color box|#468aca}}{{cite web|title=Quinnipiac University Graphic Standards Manual 2014|url=http://www.quinnipiac.edu/prebuilt/pdf/publications/QU_graphic_guide.pdf|access-date=September 26, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141127132523/http://www.quinnipiac.edu/prebuilt/pdf/publications/QU_graphic_guide.pdf|archive-date=November 27, 2014}}{{cite web|title=PMS Color Chart|url=http://www.cal-print.com/InkColorChart.htm|access-date=September 26, 2014}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.pentagram.com/work/quinnipiac/story|title=Quinnipiac — Story|website=Pentagram}}

| free_label1 = Other campuses

| free1 = {{hlist|North Haven}}

| free_label2 = Newspaper

| free2 = The Quinnipiac Chronicle

}}

Quinnipiac University ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|w|ɪ|n|ə|ˌ|p|i|.|æ|k}} {{respell|KWIH|nə|pee|ak}}){{cite Merriam-Webster|Quinnipiac|access-date=February 21, 2019 }} is a private university in Hamden, Connecticut, United States. The university grants undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. It also hosts the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

History

What became Quinnipiac University was founded in 1929 by Samuel W. Tator, a business professor and politician. Phillip Troup, a Yale College graduate, was another founder, and became its first president until his death in 1939. Tator's wife, Irmagarde Tator, a Mount Holyoke College graduate, also played a major role in the fledgling institution's nurturing as its first bursar. Additional founders were E. Wight Bakke, who later became a professor of economics at Yale, and Robert R. Chamberlain, who headed a furniture company.{{cite web | url=http://faculty.quinnipiac.edu/archives/quinnipiachistory/catalogs/1946part1.pdf | title=Catalog for Day and Evening Divisions, 1946–1947 | publisher=The Junior College of Commerce | date=1946 | page=14 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402093636/http://faculty.quinnipiac.edu/archives/quinnipiachistory/catalogs/1946part1.pdf | archive-date=April 2, 2015 }}

The new institution was conceived in reaction to Northeastern University's abandonment of its New Haven, Connecticut, program at the onset of the Great Depression. Originally, it was located in New Haven and called the Connecticut College of Commerce. On opening its doors in 1929, it enrolled under 200, and its first graduating class comprised eight students. In 1935, the college changed its name to the Junior College of Commerce. In 1951, the institution was renamed Quinnipiac College, in honor of the Quinnipiac Indian tribe that once inhabited Greater New Haven. In 1952, the school relocated to a larger campus in New Haven, and also assumed administrative management of Larson College, a private women's college.

In 1966, Quinnipiac moved to its campus in the Mount Carmel section of Hamden, Connecticut, at the foot of Sleeping Giant Park.{{cite web|url=http://www.sgpa.org|title=The Sleeping Giant Park Association|website=www.sgpa.org|access-date=March 27, 2018}} During the 1970s, Quinnipiac began to offer master's degrees.

=Controversies=

The university's official student newspaper is The Quinnipiac Chronicle.{{cite news |title=About |date=August 4, 2023 |newspaper=The Quinnipiac Chronicle |url=https://quchronicle.com/ |access-date=August 4, 2023}} In 2007 and 2008, Quinnipiac briefly drew national attention over the university's control over the Chronicle and other aspects of students' speech after the then-editor of the Chronicle openly criticized a university policy that forbade the newspaper from publishing news online before it was published in print. Manuel Carreiro, Quinnipiac's vice president and dean of students, allegedly threatened to fire Braff{{explain|date=December 2024}} for disagreeing with school policies.{{cite news |title=A Student Editor Finds Himself at the Center of the News |first=Jeff |last=Holtz |date=December 2, 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/02editorct.html |access-date=April 12, 2010 |url-access=subscription}}{{Cite web |date=May 20, 2019 |title=The story of The Quad News, QU's 'forgotten,' independent newspaper |url=https://www.jessruderman.com/reporting/thequadnews |archive-url=https://perma.cc/TD84-L6QC |archive-date=February 15, 2024 |access-date=February 15, 2024 |website=jessruderman.com}} When former Chronicle staff members founded Quad News, an independent online paper, university officials allegedly instructed varsity coaches, staff and athletes not to speak to Quad News reporters.{{Cite web |last=Zapana |first=Victor |date=September 11, 2008 |title=No access to varsity sports for Quad News |url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2008/09/11/no-access-to-varsity-sports-for-quad-news/ |website=Yale News}}{{cite magazine |title=The Quinnipiac Student Journalism Showdown |first=Allison |last=Go |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |date=September 22, 2008 |url=http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/paper-trail/2008/09/22/the-quinnipiac-student-journalism-showdown |access-date=September 19, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019140614/http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/paper-trail/2008/09/22/the-quinnipiac-student-journalism-showdown |archive-date=October 19, 2015}}{{cite web |title=Quinnipiac officials threaten to ban campus SPJ chapter after helping independent newspaper |first=Erica |last=Walters |date=September 19, 2008 |work=Student Press Law Center |url=https://splc.org/2008/09/quinnipiac-officials-threaten-to-ban-campus-spj-chapter-after-helping-independent-newspaper/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807135252/http://www.splc.org/news/newsflash.asp?id=1810 |archive-date=August 7, 2011 |access-date=December 3, 2024}}

On July 21, 2010, a federal judge ruled that Quinnipiac violated Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by failing to provide equal treatment to women's athletic teams. The judge, Stefan Underhill, determined that Quinnipiac's decision to eliminate the women's volleyball team as well as its attempt to treat cheerleading as a competitive sport and its manipulation of reporting with regard to the numbers of male and female athletes amounted to unlawful discrimination against female students. Underhill ruled that competitive cheerleading was currently too underdeveloped and unorganized and then ordered that the school maintain its volleyball program for the 2010–11 season.{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/espn/commentary/news/story?page=easterbrook/100727 |title=A Title IX decision that discounts competitive cheerleading as a sport at Quinnipiac University is strong evidence that it's time to change the law |publisher=ESPN |date=July 27, 2010 |access-date=September 19, 2015}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/QUINNIPIAC-TITLE-IX-CASE-School-must-maintain-11593490.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019140615/http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20100721/quinnipiac-title-ix-case-school-must-maintain-womens-volleyball-program-document |archive-date=October 19, 2015 |title=Quinnipiac Title IX Case: School must maintain women's volleyball program |newspaper=New Haven Register |date=July 21, 2010 |access-date=September 19, 2015 }}

In 2015, the university reached a settlement with the federal government over allegations that the university violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by "placing a student who had been diagnosed with depression on a mandatory medical leave of absence without first considering options for the student's continued enrollment." The university agreed to pay the former student over $32,000 to pay off her student loan and compensate her for "emotional distress, pain and suffering". The university also had agreed to implement a new policy of nondiscrimination against applicants or students on the basis of disability, examine changes that will allow students with mental health disabilities to participate in educational programs while seeking mental health treatment and provide additional ADA training for all staff.{{Cite web |date=March 18, 2015 |title=Justice Department Settles Americans With {{sic|nolink=y|Disabilties}} Act Case With Quinnipiac University |url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/justice-department-settles-americans-disabilties-act-case-quinnipiac-university |access-date=July 23, 2022 |website=www.justice.gov |language=en}}

In 2020, two students reached a $2.5 million settlement with the federal government, alleging the shift in remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic devalued the promised educational experience. The students alleged the virtual environment deprived them of promised in-person instruction, campus events, and relationship building. The school denied these allegations, saying virtual instruction was in the best interest due to public health and safety concerns. Quinnipiac University students who attended the college during this time received a chunk of the $2.5 million payout.{{Cite web|date=December 12, 2022|title=Quinnipiac University reaches $2.5M settlement in remote learning tuition refund case|url=https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Quinnipiac-University-reaches-2-5M-settlement-in-17648675.php |access-date=May 1, 2024 |website=www.nhregister.com}}

Campuses

File:Quinnipiac University, Mount Carmel Campus, Hamden, Connecticut (53950787945).jpg]]

File:Quinnipiac University Arnold Bernhard Library.jpg

Quinnipiac University consists of three campuses: the Mount Carmel campus off of Mount Carmel Avenue in Hamden; the York Hill campus off of Sherman Avenue in Hamden, and the North Haven Campus in North Haven, just north of New Haven, Connecticut.

The oldest of these campuses is the Mount Carmel Campus, at the foot of Sleeping Giant State Park. The Arnold Bernhard Library, Carl Hansen Student Center, university administration, and many of the student residences are found on this campus. The campus area is a census-designated place (CDP); it first appeared as a CDP in the 2020 Census with a population of 3,639.{{Cite web |title=Quinnipiac University CDP, Connecticut |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=1600000US0963313 |accessdate=March 13, 2022 |website=United States Census Bureau}}

The York Hill Campus, located on a hill about a half-mile from the Mount Carmel Campus, began with the development of the M&T Bank Arena (formerly People’s United Arena). In 2010 this was joined by a new student center as well as expanded parking and residence facilities as part of a $300 million expansion of the {{convert|250|acre|km2|adj=on}} campus.{{cite web|url=http://newyork.construction.com/features/archive/2009/06_C_York_Hill_Campus_Expansion.asp |title=York Hill Campus Expansion | New York Construction | McGraw-Hill Construction |publisher=New York Construction |access-date=September 19, 2015}} York Hill is a "green" campus, making use of renewable energy and environmentally friendly resources, including one of the first major wind farms integrated into a university campus.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/realestate/08wczo.html|title=School Colors: Green and Greener|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 6, 2009 |access-date=September 19, 2015|last1=Prevost |first1=Lisa }}

For statistical reporting purposes, the Mount Carmel and York Hill campuses were listed together as the Quinnipiac University census-designated place prior to the 2020 census.{{Cite gnis|2805987|Quinnipiac University Census Designated Place}}

In 2007, Quinnipiac acquired a {{convert|100|acre|km2|adj=on}} campus in North Haven, Connecticut, from Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, and has been gradually converting it for use by graduate programs at the university.[http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x3363.xml] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517144200/http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x3363.xml|date=May 17, 2008}}

Academics

Quinnipiac offers 58 undergraduate majors and 22 graduate programs, including Juris Doctor and medical doctor programs. Its Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine admitted 60 students to its first class in 2013.{{Cite web|url=http://www.conntact.com/education/10855-a-higher-ed-boon-in-bad-times.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721160221/http://www.conntact.com/education/10855-a-higher-ed-boon-in-bad-times.html|url-status=dead|title=Conntact.com|archive-date=July 21, 2011|website=www.conntact.com}} Quinnipiac University is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.{{Citation|title=Connecticut Institutions – NECHE|work=NECHE |publisher=New England Commission of Higher Education|url=https://www.neche.org/institutions/ct/|access-date=May 26, 2021}}

In 2021, 72.5% of undergraduate applicants were accepted with matriculated students having an average GPA of 3.47. Quinnipiac is "test optional" for standardized tests for undergraduate applicants, but encourages submitting SAT or ACT scores, or both. For those submitting scores, the average SAT score was 1175 and average ACT score was 26. Test scores are required for Quinnipiac's Accelerated Dual-Degree Bachelor's/JD (3+3) and Dual-Degree BS/MHS in Physician Assistant (4+27 months) programs, or for those that have been homeschooled.{{cite web |title=Undergraduate Admissions - Admission Requirements |url=https://www.qu.edu/admissions/undergraduate/admission-requirements/ |website=qu.edu |date=November 5, 2020 |publisher=Quinnipiac University |access-date=June 13, 2021}}{{cite web |title=Quinipiac Requirements for Admission |url=https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/Quinipiac-admission-requirements |website=prepscholar.com |publisher=PrepScholar |access-date=June 13, 2021 |archive-date=June 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613112831/https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/Quinipiac-admission-requirements |url-status=dead }}

The university operates several media outlets, including a professionally run commercial radio station, WATX, founded by journalist and Quinnipiac professor Lou Adler. The university also operates a student-run FM radio station WQAQ, which concurrently streams on the Internet. An award-winning{{Cite web|url=http://www.collegemedia.org/contests/pinnacle_awards/2014_pinnacle_winners/|title=College Media Association|website=College Media Association|access-date=March 5, 2018}} student-run television station, Q30 Television, is streamed online. Also, a student-produced newspaper, the Chronicle, established in 1929, publishes 2,500 copies every Wednesday. Students also run a literary magazine, the Montage, a yearbook, the Summit, the Quinnipiac Bobcats Sports Network (an online sports-focused broadcast), and the Quinnipiac Barnacle[http://www.qubarnacle.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130129173315/http://www.qubarnacle.com/|date=January 29, 2013}} (a parody news organization). Unaffiliated with the school, but run by students, is also an online newspaper, the Quad News.[http://www.quadnews.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060220195357/http://www.quadnews.com/|date=February 20, 2006}}

Quinnipiac is home to one of the world's largest collections of art commemorating the Great Irish Famine. The collection is contained in Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum ({{lang|ga|Músaem An Ghorta Mhóir}}) just off the Mount Carmel Campus.{{Citation

|title = Ireland's Great Hunger Museum

|date = 2012

|publisher = Quinnipiac University

|url = http://www.thegreathunger.org/Museum/

|access-date = April 28, 2013

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130208102306/http://www.thegreathunger.org/Museum/

|archive-date = February 8, 2013

|url-status = dead

}}

=Reputation and rankings=

{{Infobox US university ranking

| Forbes = 215

| THE_WSJ = 261

| USNWR_NU = 153

| Wamo_NU = 283

}}

Quinnipiac is 170th in the U.S. News & World Report 2024 rankings of national universities.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/quinnipiac-university-1402#:~:text=Quinnipiac%20University's%20ranking%20in%20the,miles%20from%20New%20York%20City. |title=U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings - Quinnipiac University |access-date=June 6, 2024 |magazine=U.S. News & World Report}} For 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked the physician assistant school 15th nationwide, the law school 122nd, the medical school 94–122, and the business school 99–131.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/quinnipiac-university-130226/overall-rankings |title=U.S. News Graduate School Rankings – Quinnipiac University |access-date=September 5, 2020 |magazine=U.S. News & World Report}}

Zippia name Quinnipiac University as the No. 1 college in the United States for getting a job in 2021, but Zippia did not report salaries.{{Cite web |title=The Best College In Each State For Getting A Job 2022 – Zippia |date=July 21, 2022 |url=https://www.zippia.com/advice/best-colleges-for-jobs-2021/ |access-date=July 25, 2022 |language=en}}

Quinnipiac Polling Institute

{{Main|Quinnipiac University Polling Institute}}

Quinnipiac's polling institute receives national recognition for its independent surveys of residents throughout the United States. It conducts public opinion polls on politics and public policy as a public service as well as for academic research.{{cite magazine

|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2202433/

|title=What's With All the "Quinnipiac University" Polls? How an obscure school in Connecticut turned into a major opinion research center.

|first=Juliet

|last=Lapidos

|magazine=Slate

|date=October 16, 2008}} The poll has been cited by major news outlets throughout North America and Europe, including The Washington Post,{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/31/AR2006103100231.html | newspaper=The Washington Post | title=Polls: Menendez Leads Kean in N.J. Race | access-date=April 12, 2010 | date=October 31, 2006}} Fox News,{{cite news| url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/poll-lieberman-leads-challenger-lamont-in-connecticut-senate-race | work=Fox News | title=Poll: Lieberman Leads Challenger Lamont in Connecticut Senate Race | date=August 17, 2006}} USA Today,{{cite web|url=http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/05/giuliani_still_.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070625054541/http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/05/giuliani_still_.html|url-status=dead|title=Quinnipiac Poll: Giuliani still leads GOP hopefuls, but by much less …|date=June 25, 2007|archive-date=June 25, 2007|website=usatoday.com|access-date=March 27, 2018}} The New York Times,{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/cq/2007/07/13/cq_3078.html | work=The New York Times | title=Poll Tests 'New York-New York-New York' Race in Ohio | first=Rachel | last=Kapochunas | date=July 13, 2007 | access-date=April 12, 2010}} CNN,{{cite news |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/03/politics/hillary-clinton-republicans-swing-states-quinnipiac-poll/ |title=Poll: Clinton sweeps GOP foes save Bush tie in Florida |author=Jeremy Diamond |date=February 3, 2015 |work=CNN |access-date=April 6, 2015|author-link=Jeremy Diamond (journalist) }} and Reuters.{{cite news| url=https://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2631671720080626?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews | title=Obama leads in four battleground states: poll | date=June 26, 2008 |work=Reuters}}

The polling operation began informally in 1988 in conjunction with a marketing class. It became formal in 1994 when the university hired a CBS News analyst to assess the data being gained. It subsequently focused on the Northeastern states, gradually expanding during presidential elections to cover swing states as well. The institute receives funding from the university, with its phone callers generally being work-study students or local residents. The polls have been rated highly by FiveThirtyEight for accuracy in predicting primary and general elections.{{Cite web |last=Silver |first=Nate |date=March 25, 2021 |title=Pollster Ratings - Quinnipiac University |url=https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141005201227/http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 5, 2014 |access-date=March 29, 2022 |website=FiveThirtyEight |language=en}} In 2017 Politico called the Quinnipiac poll "the most significant player among a number of schools that have established a national polling footprint."{{Cite web |last=Shepard |first=Steven |date=December 12, 2017 |title=The Poll That Built a University |url=http://politi.co/2BVyU4y |access-date=June 1, 2022 |website=POLITICO Magazine |language=en}}

Student life

class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible"; text-align:right; font-size:80%;"

|+ style="font-size:90%" |Student body composition as of May 2, 2022

Race and ethnicity{{cite web |title=College Scorecard: Quinnipiac University|url=https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?130226-Quinnipiac-University |publisher=United States Department of Education |access-date=November 11, 2023}}

! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total

White

|align=right| {{bartable|74|%|2

background:gray}}
Hispanic

|align=right| {{bartable|10|%|2

background:green}}
Black

|align=right| {{bartable|4|%|2

background:mediumblue}}
Asian

|align=right| {{bartable|4|%|2

background:purple}}
Foreign national

|align=right| {{bartable|3|%|2

background:orange}}
Other{{efn|Other consists of Multiracial Americans and those who prefer to not say.}}

|align=right| {{bartable|3|%|2

background:brown}}
colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |Economic diversity
Low-income{{efn|The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students}}

|align=right| {{bartable|16|%|2

background:red}}
Affluent{{efn|The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum}}

|align=right| {{bartable|84|%|2

background:black}}

Quinnipiac is home to seven fraternities and nine sororities.{{cite web |url=http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x409.xml |title=Verification | Quinnipiac University Connecticut |publisher=Quinnipiac.edu |date=August 17, 2015 |access-date=September 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101210083630/http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x409.xml |archive-date=December 10, 2010 |url-status=dead }}

The National Panhellenic Conference is an umbrella organization which was created in 1902 for 26 women's sororities.

Athletics

{{main|Quinnipiac Bobcats}}

The Quinnipiac Bobcats, previously the Quinnipiac Braves, comprise the school's athletic teams. They play in NCAA Division I in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, except for the men's and women's ice hockey teams, which are part of ECAC Hockey, and the women's field hockey team, which joined Big East Conference starting with the 2016 season.{{cite press release|url=http://www.bigeast.com/news/2015/12/8/FH_1208150229.aspx |title=BIG EAST Adds Liberty, Quinnipiac For Field Hockey |publisher=Big East Conference |date=December 8, 2015 |access-date=January 17, 2016}}

File:Joey Henshaw (31) slides safe (cropped).jpg game between Quinnipiac and Army (March 2011)]]

There are 7 men's varsity sports and 14 women's varsity sports,{{cite web | url=http://www.quinnipiacbobcats.com/ | title=Quinnipiac University's Official Athletics Site | author=QuinnipiacBobcats.com | publisher=Quinnipiac University | access-date=November 24, 2009}} with no football team. Men's varsity sports are baseball, basketball, cross country, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer, and tennis. Women's varsity sports include acrobatics & tumbling, basketball, cross country, field hockey, golf, ice hockey, ice hockey, lacrosse, rugby, soccer, softball, tennis, indoor track & field, outdoor track & field, and volleyball.

The team with the largest following on campus and in the area is the men's ice hockey team under established coach Rand Pecknold,{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/sports/ncaabasketball/26quinnipiac.html | title=New Quinnipiac Coach Is Expected to Build a Winner | author=Weinreb, Michael | newspaper=The New York Times | date=December 26, 2007 | access-date=April 24, 2009}} which has been nationally ranked at times; during the 2009–2010 season they entered the top ten of the national polls for the first time.{{cite press release | url=http://www.quinnipiacbobcats.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=17500&atclid=204839212&CFID=43192268&CFTOKEN=83754460&jsessionid=503015367e6452111679 | title=Men's Ice Hockey Ranked In Top 10 Nationally For First Time In Program History | author=QuinnipiacBobcats.com | publisher=Quinnipiac University | date=November 23, 2009 }}{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The team was the number-one nationally ranked hockey program for parts of the 2012–2013 season, reaching the Frozen Four for the first time in the program's history. They advanced to the national championship, ultimately falling to rival Yale. They also advanced to the 2016 Frozen Four, losing to North Dakota in the national championship game. In 2023, the Bobcats defeated Minnesota 3–2, 10 seconds into overtime, to capture the 2023 NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship, the first NCAA National Championship for Quinnipiac in any sport.

The Quinnipiac women's ice hockey program had their most success in the 2009–10 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey season. Quinnipiac University added a women's golf and women's rugby team in the 2010–11 academic year, the women's golf team being successful and winning the MAAC Championship three years in a row.

In the late 2000s the men's basketball team gained a greater following under new head coach Tom Moore, a disciple of UConn Huskies men's basketball coach Jim Calhoun. Both men's and women's ice hockey and basketball teams play at the $52 million M&T Bank Arena, opened in 2007. The women's lacrosse team has also been quite strong. Men's cross country captured 4 NEC titles in 5 years between 2004 and 2008. The athletics program has been under pressures common to other universities, and at the close of the 2008–2009 academic year, men's golf, men's outdoor track, and men's indoor track were dropped as a cost-cutting measure, although the last of these was restored (as a result of a Title IX suit.[http://www.acluct.org/aboutus/pressroom/eliminationofwomensvolleyb.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724223217/http://www.acluct.org/aboutus/pressroom/eliminationofwomensvolleyb.htm|date=July 24, 2011}})

Notable alumni

Notes

{{notelist}}

References

{{Reflist}}