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Hilbert College is a private Franciscan college in Hamburg, New York. The college is named after Mother Colette Hilbert of the Franciscan Sisters of Saint Joseph, who founded the school to train teachers in 1957. Hilbert College is a coeducational liberal arts college that currently enrolls approximately 800 students and grants both undergraduate and master’s degrees.
Hilbert is a private, Catholic college located in Hamburg, New York in the Buffalo Area. It is a small institution with an enrollment of 680 undergraduate students. The Hilbert acceptance rate is 87%. Popular majors include Criminal Justice and Safety Studies, Forensic Science and Technology, and Business. Graduating 50% of students, Hilbert alumni go on to earn a starting salary of $31,200.
Hilbert College offers 17 bachelor’s degree programs, including psychology, digital media and communication, criminal justice, forensic science, computer security and information assurance, business, legal studies, cyber security, and more.
Hilbert operates on a semester schedule with summer sessions available. The graduate program operates on five-week sessions.
The undergraduate student-faculty ratio is 13:1. Hilbert helps students transition to college life with its First-Year Experience (FYE) program, which includes faculty/staff mentoring, seminars, guest lectures, and other tools to promote academic success and persistence to graduation.
Hilbert also offers an Honors Program for its top students across all majors.
In 2011, Hilbert College began offering Masters level degree programs in the fields of Criminal Justice Administration and Public Administration.
Hilbert College is on a 60-acre suburban campus that consists of 11 buildings and several athletic fields. Bogel Hall and McGrath Library were the first buildings to open when the college moved from the FSSJ Motherhouse to the new Hamburg campus. St. Joseph Residence Hall and the Campus Center opened the following year. The college later added four new apartment-style residence buildings (2003); a new residence hall, Trinity Hall (2009); an academic building, Paczesny Hall (2006); a 430-seat theater, Swan Auditorium (2006); and made renovations to the Hafner Recreation Center (2005). Franciscan Hall, the main administrative building, was opened in 1997. In 2006, the Digital Media and Communications department opened up the Center for Creative Media.
