The university offers over 25 undergraduate and graduate programs in day, evening, and online courses.

In 1980, the college began offering baccalaureate degrees, and a few years later acquired its athletic facilities to support men's and women's varsity sports.

In 2007, Post offered Connecticut's first fully online Master of Business Administration degree program.

The school became American Sentinel College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Post University.

[13] Post University sits on a 58-acre (23.5 ha) campus located near Interstate 84 (Yankee Expressway) in Waterbury, Connecticut.

The Post Tree is a Camperdown elm (Ulmus Camperdownii) that once served as the backdrop for the university's logo.

The Traurig Library has one floor and stores over 13,000 books and media, as well as a boardroom for meetings, and the office for academic affairs.

[16] Hess Hall features classrooms, the registrar, the financial aid office, human resources, and IT.

[7] LaMoy Field is a multipurpose facility to support Post's athletic programs and football team.

[20][21] The organization is a private, for-profit school; since 2004, it has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Post Education, Inc.,[22] a Delaware C corporation.

[23] Don Mroz was president of Post University and was founding dean of the Malcolm Baldrige School of Business.

Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer, football, tennis, and track and field; while women's sports include basketball, bowling, cross country, golf, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, tennis, track and field, and volleyball.