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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