Albertus Magnus College

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Albertus Magnus College is a small private liberal arts college in New Haven, Connecticut. It is located about two miles from the central campus of Yale University in a residential area near the border with Hamden. The area, on Prospect Street just above Edgerton Park. The college uses several of the area's 19th-century mansions as classroom and administrative buildings.

Albertus was founded by a Dominican congregation in 1925 and is still associated with that order, though the college's board of trustees was expanded in 1969 so that 80% of the trustees are lay people. The school was founded as a women's college but became coeducational in 1985.

Some 85% of the 1,695 undergraduates hail from Connecticut; more than two-thirds are female.

In 2006, U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges guide ranked Albertus ranked 31st of 34 colleges in the Northern Comprehensive Colleges-Bachelor's category. It was deemed a "Less Selective" college, with 83% of applicants admitted.

One notable alumna of Albertus is Margaret Heckler, an American politician who served variously as a U.S. Representative, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland.