University of Bridgeport at a glance
- Program: School of Chiropractic, Doctor of Chiropractic
- Campus: 126 Park Avenue, Bridgeport, CT (chiropractic instruction at the Health Sciences Center, 60 Lafayette St)
- Notable: the first university-based chiropractic program in the US, established 1991
A first-of-its-kind program, now under Goodwin
UBSC opened in 1991 as the first chiropractic program housed inside a university setting anywhere in the country, a structure most chiropractic colleges still don't use. In 2021, the University of Bridgeport merged into Goodwin University, though the chiropractic program continues to operate and market itself under the University of Bridgeport name.
UBSC's published NBCE licensing results
UBSC posts a straightforward 4-year licensing-exam success table on its learning-outcomes page, covering the share of graduates passing NBCE Parts I-IV, or the equivalent CCEB Written/Clinical A, B, C components, combined rather than broken out by individual Part:
| Year | UBSC rate | Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 91% | 32 of 35 |
| 2023 | 87% | 26 of 30 |
| 2024 | 85% | 41 of 48 |
| 2025 | 86% | 32 of 37 |
| 4-year weighted average | 87% | 131 of 150 |
That's a relatively small graduating cohort each year compared to larger programs on this list, which UBSC's own numbers make transparent rather than obscure.
Where to get support
UBSC's published resources point students to the NBCE directly (nbce.org) and to the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards (fclb.org) for state-by-state licensure information, rather than naming an in-house board-review office or proprietary review course. That makes outside practice resources, and a self-directed study plan, especially useful for UBSC students heading into Part I and Part II.
A smaller program can cut both ways here. With fewer students per cohort, there's less of an internal peer network to trade study materials with compared to a school graduating hundreds a year, but it also means faculty and administration know individual students by name, which can make it easier to flag a struggling subject early rather than have it get lost in a big lecture hall.
Planning around the exam calendar
Like every CCE-accredited program, UBSC students face Part I in their second year and Part II in year three, with Part III due within nine months of graduation and Part IV within six. Since Part IV is now administered only at the NBCE's Assessment Center in Greeley, Colorado, Bridgeport students should build that travel into their final-semester planning early, alongside the standard 17-day scheduling cutoff for every Part.
Bridgeport's earlier classes, 2012 to 2021
The University of Bridgeport's archived outcomes pages list results back to the class of 2012. The older table counts graduates who passed all NBCE parts within six months among those who attempted any or all parts. A newer table, covering 2018 on, counts all graduates who passed all parts or were licensed. The two overlap for 2018 to 2020 and are shown side by side.
| Graduating year | Passed all Parts, of graduates who attempted an exam | Passed all Parts or licensed, of all graduates |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 79% (37 of 47) | — |
| 2013 | 89% (48 of 54) | — |
| 2014 | 81% (34 of 42) | — |
| 2015 | 81% (25 of 31) | — |
| 2016 | 87% (34 of 39) | — |
| 2017 | 88.24% (30 of 34) | — |
| 2018 | 86.84% (33 of 38) | 87% (33 of 38) |
| 2019 | 86.67% (39 of 45) | 87% (39 of 45) |
| 2020 | 86.54% (45 of 52) | 88% (44 of 50) |
| 2021 | — | 84% (41 of 49) |
A dash means the school's files do not show a figure for that year.
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Sources: UBSC learning outcomes · School of Chiropractic overview · Consumer information. Figures as published by the university; checked September 2026. The year-by-year tables above come from the school's own published disclosures, linked here as archived copies where the current page no longer shows them: archived copy, May 2017 · archived copy, Mar 2018 · archived copy, Feb 2019 · archived copy, Aug 2019 · archived copy, Mar 2021 · archived copy, Oct 2021 · archived copy, Dec 2022. ChiroEDU is independent and not affiliated with University of Bridgeport or the NBCE.