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Saint Joseph's College of Maine is a private, Catholic liberal arts tradition college that grants four year bachelor's in the regular program and bachelor's and master's degrees in the distance education program. The college is located (43°49′N 70°29′W) on the shores of Sebago Lake in southern Maine, near North Windham (43°49′N 70°25′W) in Cumberland County, Maine . Also close communities are Windham, Standish and Sebago. The distance education program in health care administration is well known. In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprise two groups of studies, the trivium and the quadrivium. ... A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts three or four years. ... A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts three or four years. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate or graduate course of one to three years in duration. ... Distance education is a method of teaching in which the students are not required to be physically present at a specific location or time during the term. ... Sebago Lake is the deepest Lake in Maine, United States. ... North Windham is a census-designated place located in Cumberland County, Maine. ... Cumberland County is a county located in the state of Maine. ... Windham is a town located in Cumberland County, Maine. ... Standish is a town located in Cumberland County, Maine. ... Sebago is a town located in Cumberland County, Maine. ...

The College is located on what was once a large estate owned by the Verrill family of Portland.

Saint Joseph’s was founded by the Portland Regional Community of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas in 1912 and chartered by the Maine Legislature in 1915. It is the Catholic college of Maine. It has a religious Board of Trustees and a lay and religious Board of Overseers. Saint Joseph’s grants degrees in fulfillment of the educational ideals of the Sisters of Mercy, founded by Mary Catherine McAuley in Dublin, Ireland, in 1831.

From the time of the foundation of the Portland Regional Community in the Diocese of Portland in 1883, the Sisters of Mercy worked toward the establishment of a college. From 1912 to 1956, the college was located on the grounds of the Motherhouse in the Deering district of Portland. In 1949, the name of the College was changed from Saint Joseph’s to The College of Our Lady of Mercy; but with the change of site to Standish in 1956, the original name of Saint Joseph’s was resumed.

In 1970, Saint Joseph’s became a coeducational institution. The College began offering distance education programs in 1976. The Division of Graduate & Professional Studies now offers its programs nationally and internationally.

The college is known for it's nursing program and does great work in the sciences however it's liberal arts programs like communications, history and english are expanding.

Link: http://www.sjcme.edu/