Less than a year after St. Joseph’s University merged with the University of the Sciences, the Catholic school Wednesday announced plans to merge again, this time allowing it to add nursing programs, which has long been a goal.
Over the next year, the two private institutions will plan for the integration, with the merger to take effect next January following necessary accreditation and government approvals, the schools said in a news release.With a main campus that straddles Philadelphia and Lower Merion and a second campus in University City,St. Joe’s said the merger will broaden its campus beyond Philadelphia and add more than 20 nursing and allied health programs to its academic roster.
St. Joe’s has been in talks about a potential merger with the college since 2020, a year before the proposed merger with University of the Sciences was announced, said Liz Kennedy Walsh, a St. Joe’s spokesperson. But the talks grew more serious last summer, she said. Five boards had to vote on the plan — those of the two colleges, as well as those at Lancaster General, Penn and Penn Medicine — Walsh said.St.
Reed was at the helm when St. Joe’s announced in 2021 that it was considering a merger with USciences, which was five miles away. The merger was expected to increase St. Joe’s enrollment to more than 9,000 undergraduate and graduate students, its endowment to an excess of a half-billion dollars, its operating budget to more than $300 million and its assets to $1.2 billion.
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