Engaged Students

The spirit of service is alive at Mount Aloysius. Not only have students supported the community by donating and collecting money, by they have also given of their time and talents....

Discovering Success

• Many student organizations use our Mercy heritage as a steppingstone to helping others. Students have traveled to Honduras to help build an orphanage and to Jamaica to volunteer at a school for deaf children. Along with faculty and staff, MAC students have annually gone Camp Coast Care in Mississippi to help rebuild the gulf coast after hurricane Katrina.
  
  
• MAC student interns build practical experience in a wide range of professional settings. Some have served as clinical interns in a physical therapy practice, while others have been assistants to the Watershed Manager in the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and in the IRS criminal investigations unit. For those that are more competitive, Mount Aloysius offers students the opportunity to compete for highly coveted internship positions. The College has had a pre-med student have a 10-week internship with the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative at McGowan Institute for Regenerative medicine.
  
  
• Students have collected food donations for regional food banks, involved themselves in Earth Day, UN Day of Peace, Walk for Life, Coaches vs. Cancer. The Mountie athletic teams have volunteered at a local soup kitchen, worked with Project Bundle Up to get winter coats for children in need, and have gone above and beyond at many different Salvation Army kettle locations during the holidays.

Great Teaching

At Mount Aloysius, you’ll find a nationally known, experienced faculty. With most professors holding a terminal or doctorate degree, they bring to the classroom both academic and real-world experience...

Market Driven, Career Focused

• Mount Aloysius College continually researches employment trends and market demands, and adds or change programs to address emerging needs. Our entire curriculum reflects this focus on careers.
  
  
• Our core curriculum helps you to become analytical and reflective. You also learn to approach your work within the context of the larger world and the human experience. Considerable emphasis is placed on writing. It’s a “classic” college curriculum, reinvented for today’s career-centric students.
  
  
• Add an even higher level of intellectual inquiry with the MAC Honors Program. Through your four years, you interact with professors and other honors students to hone skills of critical thinking, persuasive writing and group leadership as you tackle the multifaceted issues of the human experience.

Academic Programs
More than 70 undergraduate academic programs and concentrations are offered on the undergraduate and graduate levels in Health Sciences and Nursing, Humanities, Education, Social Sciences, Natural and Applied Sciences, Business Administration, and Pre-Professional Study,

• Forensic Accountant
  Think CSI:Accounting. This degree program, designed with input from the IRS Criminal Investigation Unit, integrates Accounting with Criminology. IRS agents come to campus to conduct mock criminal investigations with students.
  
  
• Sign Language Interpreter
  American Sign Language (ASL) uses visual cues, such as the position, shape and movement of h hands, body and face, to form words. Students in MAC’s Sign Language/Interpreter Education major build their skills in a Sony Virtuoso-equipped ASL Lab – an elite resource and among the only lab of its kind in this part of the country.
  
  
• Healthcare Professional
  MAC’s Nursing program has produced many of the state’s top RNs and the NCLEX pass rate of our graduates is unsurpassed. Our Surgical Technology program – ranked nationally in the top 10 and the only ranked Pennsylvania College – prepares students in a state-of-the-art operating room suite. The Medical Imaging program prepares radiographers and ultrasonographers with exceptional technical abilities and a caring approach to their work.

Vibrant Community

At Mount Aloysius, you’ll find a nationally known, experienced professors that hold terminal or doctorate degrees, and they bring to the classroom both academic and real-world experience...

Nestled in the Alleghany Mountains

• The Vox Nova Choral Ensemble, comprised of non-music majors, is renowned for its Baroque and Renaissance selections. Under the direction of Nancy Rosenteel Way, Vox Nova made a live recording at the invitation of Pittsburgh radio station WQED, which aired the performance.
  
  
• Recreational opportunities include cross-country skiing, mountain biking, and intramural sports. On campus, a multi-day competition called the “Mini-Olympics” is a tradition that everyone is involved in, whether you are a seasoned athlete or a bookworm.
  
  
• Our secure campus is in a safe community, with one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
  
  
• Mount Aloysius students may love outdoor adventure, but Altoona, Johnstown, Pittsburgh, and Washington D.C. are all accessible from campus depending on how far you would like to drive. Altoona is only 15 minutes away while DC is 2 ½ hours away.

Successful Outcomes

Fully 97 percent of Mount Aloysius graduates report having jobs within six months of graduating, and in some fields the placement rate is 100 percent...

Continuing Lives of Learning

• Many Mount Aloysius alumni have continued on to attend graduate or law schools such as: Berklee College of Music, Boston College, Bucknell University, Catholic University, Dickinson School of Law, Drexel University, Duquesne School of Law, Georgetown University, Notre Dame University, Princeton University, Temple University, The University of Pennsylvania, Thomas Cooley School of Law, Villanova University, and Xavier University.

• The practical career assistance at Mount Aloysius prepares students for real-world careers in their fields of study. We go beyond the classroom to help students gain practical experience, and as you approach graduation, you can count on:

Advice in preparing a resume
Videotaped mock interviews to build skills and confidence
Career workshops with expert speakers
Referrals to prospective employers
Job and internship fairs