Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences

Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences
Office of the Dean
College of Arts & Sciences Building
Room 448
Akron, OH 44325-1901
Phone: 330-972-7880
Fax: 330-972-7222

College Distinctions

Academic Core for Scholarship

Dating to 1870, the University’s founding year, Buchtel College of Arts and Science is today the largest, most diverse of UA’s 10 degree-granting colleges. It leads in the number of undergraduates its faculty teach in the general education program and in the amount of external grants its faculty receive for research.

Seven Doctoral Programs

The college offers doctoral degrees in chemistry, counseling psychology, engineering applied mathematics, history, psychology, sociology, and urban studies and public affairs. U.S. News and World Reports ranks its program in industrial/organizational psychology among the nation’s top ten. Combined with UA’s programs in polymer science, its chemistry department graduates the highest number of chemistry Ph.D.s in the state.

External Grant Awards

Last year, external grants to college faculty totaled about one third of the University’s entire acquisition. In addition to supporting individual research projects, such grants enhance research infrastructure with state-of-the-art technology.

Active Research

The Institute for Health and Social Policy, which is revising the D.A.R.E. curriculum through a $13.8 million grant from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, employs 130 individuals working on 38 research projects through annual grant awards of $5 million.

Longstanding Lecture Events

For students, faculty, their colleagues and the community, the college hosts renowned scholars for such annual events as the Charles E. Knight Lecture in Chemistry, the Sally A. Miller Lecture in History, and the Emile Grunberg Lecture in Economics. Indeed, of the 16 who have delivered the Grunberg Lecture, 14 were Nobel Laureates.