Connecticut School of Professional Studies is a private company providing higher education for those in the Greater New Haven and Fairfield County areas. Connecticut School of Professional Studies has a long history of preparing students for rewarding careers in high demand fields. The school began in 1994 as the Dental Careers Institute, founded by Dr. Richard Feingold and Dr. Gary Rappaport, in Orange, Connecticut. Since 1994 the school has grown steadily and developed a solid reputation with the following programs: Dental Assistant, Accounting Technician, Paralegal Studies, and Pharmacy Technician. To better reflect its increasing diversity of high quality career training programs, in 2008 the school changed its name to Connecticut School of Professional Studies.