These experiences prepare them to take active roles in the larger world community. A Susquehanna education focuses entirely on the undergraduate years. Faculty advisors are readily available and willing to spend time with individual students. Teaching is interactive. Classes are usually small and are taught by well-respected professors who encourage lively classroom discussion.
Students often work together to solve problems, complete projects or conduct research.
Programs foster personal development as well as academic competence. Susquehanna offers three separate and distinct Schools and a variety of interdisciplinary programs. The School of Arts, Humanities and Communications includes majors in both the liberal arts and those emphasizing practice and performance. Programs include education, English, history, modern languages, philosophy, religion, art, music, and communications and theatre arts. Collaborative and independent research are hallmarks of the School of Natural and Social Sciences, which offers programs in biology, chemistry, mathematical and computer sciences, economics, geological and environmental science, physics, political science, psychology and sociology.