Facts About Marquette University
• Founded in 1881, Marquette is recognized among
the nation’s leading universities. Last year,
more students applied to Marquette than in any previous
year.
• A Catholic, Jesuit university
with an emphasis on scholarship, faith, leadership and activism,
Marquette attracts students from
all states
and more than 75 countries. Ninety percent of undergraduates participate in service through a wide range of programs, student organizations, service-learning classes and one-day projects.
• Marquette has a renowned
faculty: 59 members have claimed 76 Fulbright Awards for
scholarly research. Physical therapy Professor Dr. Donald A. Neumann was named the 2006 Wisconsin Professor of the Year, and
Biomedical Engineering Professor and Chair Dr. Kristina Ropella was named the '07 Wisconsin Professor of the Year. Faculty work with students
in a 1:15 ratio.
• Marquette
educates about 8,000 undergraduates and 11,000 total
students, including the dental,
graduate and
law schools. More than 90 percent
of freshmen received some form of financial assistance.
Offering undergraduate degrees in more than 115 majors,
Marquette also
grants graduate degrees in 35 master’s and 17
doctoral programs, along with professional degrees
in law and
dentistry and degree-completion
programs for working adults.
• The university is located on
approximately 90 acres in the heart of Milwaukee. Exciting campus additions include the new Law School building, Eckstein Hall, scheduled to open in fall 2010; student services building, Zilber Hall, scheduled to open in fall '09; and College of Engineering facility, the Discovery Learning Complex, to open in fall '11. Other state-of-the-art facilities
include the Raynor Memorial Libraries, dental school and major
athletic complex honoring legendary
Marquette men's basketball coach Al McGuire. The Haggerty Museum of Art, an award-winning
building, features more than 8,000 works from Old Masters to
contemporary
art and is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
• The Marquette University Les
Aspin Center for Government is a highly regarded
internship program with a permanent home on Capitol
Hill in Washington, D.C. The center annually offers
several governmental
internships
and provides democracy training for political
leaders from six African countries.
• The Golden Eagles proudly compete in NCAA Division I. The men's basketball team reached the Final Four in 2003, and women's basketball team won the WNIT in '08.
• In its 2010 survey of
colleges and universities, U.S. News and World Report ranks
Marquette 84th among the top 100 national, doctoral-granting
universities in the country. Other notable rankings
are held by the Law
School, Dispute
Resolution Program, College
of Nursing, Nursing-midwifery
program, College of Business Administration and Graduate School of Management, Part-time
MBA Program, Physical Therapy program, Physician Assistant program, and School of Education.
To ensure that top students can afford a Marquette education, the university is
engaged in the ambitious Give Marquette campaign.
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