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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 80 countries. Students annually join faculty and alumni to perform more than 100,000 hours of community service.

Marquette has a renowned faculty; 52 members have claimed 69 Fulbright Awards for scholarly research. English professor and writer C.J. Hribal was one of only 184 artists, scholars and scientists to win a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship. Faculty work with students in a 1:15 ratio. Only 10 percent of Marquette’s classes have 50 or more students.

Marquette educates 7,600 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 60 majors, Marquette also grants graduate degrees in 35 master’s and 18 doctoral programs, along with professional degrees in law and dentistry, and offers degree-completion programs for working adults.

The university is located on approximately 80 acres in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Facilities include a new library, dental school and major new athletic complex honoring legendary Marquette coach Al McGuire. The Haggerty Museum of Art, an award-winning building, features more than 8,000 works from Old Masters to contemporary art.

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 more than 80 governmental internships and provides democracy training for political leaders from six African countries.

Marquette’s athletics teams proudly compete in NCAA Division I. The Golden Eagles reached the Final Four in men’s basketball in 2003.

In the 2004 survey of colleges and universities, U.S. News and World Report ranks Marquette among the top 100 national, doctoral-granting universities in the country. Other notable rankings are held by the Law School, the Dispute Resolution Program, the College of Nursing, the Nursing-Midwifery Program, the College of Business Administration’s Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship, the Part-time MBA Program, Physical Therapy, the Physician Assistant Studies Program and the School of Education. To respond to new initiatives in faculty support, financial aid and key renewal projects on campus, Marquette is engaged in an ambitious $250 million campaign, Magis: The Campaign for Marquette, which is being led by John Stollenwerk, Sp ’62, Grad ’66, and a member of the university’s Board of Trustees.

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