The following area residents were named to the the Dean's List at Quinnipiac University for the Fall 2012 semester:

• Doug Caggiano 
• Sarah Nelson 
• Natalia Maurillo 

To qualify for the dean's list, students must earn a grade point average of at least 3.5 with no grade lower than C. Full-time students must complete at least 14 credits in a semester, with at least 12 credits that have been graded on a letter grade basis, to be eligible. Part-time students must complete at least six credits during a semester.

Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution located 90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The university enrolls 6,200 full-time undergraduate and 2,300 graduate students in 58 undergraduate and more than 20 graduate programs of study in its following schools:

• School of Business and Engineering,
• School of Communications,
• School of Education, 
• School of Health Sciences, 
• School of Law, 
• Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, 
• School of Nursing 
• and College of Arts and Sciences.

Quinnipiac consistently ranks among the top regional universities in the North in U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges issue. The 2013 issue of U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges named Quinnipiac as the top up-and-coming school with master's programs in the Northern Region.

Quinnipiac also is recognized in Princeton Review's "The Best 377 Colleges."