Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

As Pennsylvania's premier public liberal arts institution, Mansfield University offers students a personalized education that emphasizes character development, scholarly growth, cultural awareness, and community service. By preparing our students for productive careers and meaningful lives, we positively influence the world.

As Pennsylvania's only member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities (COPLAC), Mansfield University is the state's premier public liberal arts institution. We are committed to enhancing our identity as a small, distinctive, affordable alternative to private liberal arts colleges.

Mansfield University of Pennsylvania provides personal attention, academic commitment, and affordability. With a wide choice of academic majors and minors, you are sure to discover the academic major (and minor) that is right for you. As Pennsylvania's Premier Public Liberal Arts University and a College of Distinction, Mansfield University offers the best the state has to provide, along with unmatched opportunities through our Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) affiliation.

The mission of Academic Advising Center is to provide quality academic advising, by assisting students in the purposeful planning of an undergraduate liberal arts education, contributing to an environment that promotes academic (Scholarship) and personal, as well as intellectual, and ethical (Character)growth. Academic Advising is a decision-making process by which students realize their maximum education potential, through communication, and information exchanges with an advisor; it is ongoing, multifaceted and a shared responsibility of both the advisor and advisee.

The advisor, utilizing a developmental, proscriptive and/or, prescriptive, strength-based approach, serves as a constant facilitator of communication, a coordinator of learning experiences, through course and career planning and academic progress review, and an agent of referral to other campus services.

Mansfield University's Academic Advising Center aspires to provide an excellent advising experience, through the development of academic and career goals, meaningful collaborative relationships, appropriate academic decision making and navigational skills, that will result in students valuing and applying their liberal arts education.

Mansfield has exchange programs with more than 150 universities in 50 countries. Through our own exchange agreements and through our membership in the International Student Exchange Programs (ISEP), the largest student exchange program in the world, you can study in English in many countries or you can improve your French, German, Spanish, or get introduced to other languages and cultures.

It’s affordable. For most of the programs, you pay MU tuition and room and board, plus the cost of a plane ticket and some fees, and special MU study-abroad scholarships may be available to help with costs. You can go for a semester, a year, or a summer, and you can take general education courses or some major-related courses. And MU and ISEP carefully monitor countries where our students study, so it’s okay to go abroad today.

The mission of the Mansfield University Counseling Center is to enhance the quality of life for students during their collegiate years, as well as the duration of their lives. We are committed to the development of the whole person: academically, personally, spiritually, socially and physically. The Mansfield University Counseling Center is committed to enhancing the psychological health and personal effectiveness of all students.

The Mansfield University Counseling Center is committed to the success of our students. We offer individual, couples, and family counseling to students. A Counselor is on-call for crisis situations after hours regular fall and spring academic year. The services of the Counseling Center are supportive of the academics and are not to replace long-term outpatients therapy programs. A student requiring psychiatric evaluation will be referred accordingly. Drug and alcohol assessments can be completed at the Center and students requiring more treatment may be referred to an outside agency or program. Our services are strictly confidential.

The Department of Academic and Human Development (AHD) contributes to a premier liberal arts education through the provision of quality student support services. AHD strives to provide instruction and quality student support services that enhance the emotional, intellectual, personal, and professional growth of the Mansfield University student as they develop a global consciousness through character, scholarship, cultural awareness, and service to the community.

The mission of Academic Advising Center is to provide quality academic advising, by assisting students in the purposeful planning of an undergraduate liberal arts education, contributing to an environment that promotes academic (Scholarship) and personal, as well as intellectual, and ethical (Character)growth. Academic Advising is a decision-making process by which students realize their maximum education potential, through communication, and information exchanges with an advisor; it is ongoing, multifaceted and a shared responsibility of both the advisor and advisee. The advisor, utilizing a developmental, proscriptive and/or, prescriptive, strength-based approach, serves as a constant facilitator of communication, a coordinator of learning experiences, through course and career planning and academic progress review, and an agent of referral to other campus services.

The Learning Center at Mansfield University is committed to helping students achieve their academic goals. We are dedicated to providing a success-oriented learning environment that focuses on the essentials of what is needed to succeed in college. Our student support programs are designed to assist students in maximizing their academic potential.

We provide peer tutors, writing center tutors and supplemental instruction study sessions. Each of these student support programs focus on course content as well as collaborative student learning processes that are designed to actively engage the learner.