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
Email:casinfo@uakron.edu
Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences, at the heart of The University of Akron, is the place where a passion for learning and its destiny begins.
Academic Core for Scholarship
Dating to 1870, the University’s founding year, Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences is today the largest and most diverse of UA’s 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.
As graduates in the liberal arts, Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences alumni establish successful careers in many areas. Indeed, according to Fortune Magazine, 38 percent of today's CEO's are liberal arts graduates.
Eight Doctoral Programs The college offers doctoral degrees in chemistry, counseling psychology, engineering applied mathematics, history, integrated bioscience, 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 In 2001, the Institute for Health and Social Policy, began revising the D.A.R.E. curriculum through a $13.7 million grant from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, employs 130 individuals working on 48 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. |
