Saint Anselm College

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**Saint Anselm College**
Motto	Initium sapientiae timor Domini (Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom - Psalm 111)
Established	1889
President	Father Jonathan DeFelice, O.S.B.
Faculty	170
Students	~ 2000
Location	Manchester, New Hampshire
Colors	Navy Blue and White
Nickname	St. A's
Mascot	Hawk
Website	www.anselm.edu

Saint Anselm College is a private, Roman Catholic, coeducational liberal arts college. Founded by the Benedictines in 1889, the school is located in Manchester, New Hampshire, directly adjacent to Goffstown.

The first bishop of Manchester, Bishop Denis M. Bradley, invited the Benedictine monks of St. Mary's Abbey in Newark, New Jersey to form a school in his diocese. The monks accepted, and a six-year curriculum in philosophy and theology was developed. In 1895, the General Court of New Hampshire granted Saint Anselm College the right to bestow standard academic degrees upon its graduates.

Currently, the college is home to approximately two thousand students from twenty-eight states and twenty-one countries. Saint Anselm College offers a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing, as well as Bachelor of Arts degrees in thirty-one majors. Eighteen certificate programs are also offered. The student to faculty ratio is 14:1.

Saint Anselm College plays NCAA Division II men's and women's sports, including baseball, basketball, skiing, lacrosse, ice hockey, and field hockey. The college's mascot is the Hawk.

Princeton Review has described Saint Anselm College as one of the top "Colleges with a Conscience", as well as one of the 224 Best Northeastern Colleges.

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Northeast Ten Conference
American International • Assumption • Bentley • Bryant • Franklin Pierce • Le Moyne • Long Island Post^† • Massachusetts Lowell • Merrimack • Pace • Saint Anselm • Saint Michael's • Saint Rose • Southern Connecticut State • Southern New Hampshire • Stonehill ^† football-only member