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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 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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