St. Francis College

St. Francis College is a private college in Brooklyn Heights, New York. It was founded in 1859 by the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn, a Franciscan order, as the St. Francis Academy and was the first private school in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. St. Francis College began as a parochial all-boys academy in the City of Brooklyn and has become a small liberal arts college that has 19 academic departments which offer 72 majors and minors.

St. Francis College is a predominantly undergraduate institution with graduate programs in accounting, project management, psychology and creative writing. St. Francis is set in an urban environment and is considered a commuter college.