Marquette University is a Catholic,
co-educational, Jesuit university,
founded in 1881, and named after
Father Jacques Marquette, a French
Jesuit missionary and New World
explorer of the Upper Mississippi
River and the Milwaukee region in
the 1600s. The University is
dedicated to serving God by serving
its students and contributing to the
advancement of knowledge. Its
mission, therefore, is the search
for truth, the discovery and sharing
of knowledge, the fostering of
personal and professional
excellence, the promotion of a life
of faith, and the development of
leadership expressed in service to
others.
Marquette University has a campus of
approximately 80 acres and 51
buildings located in downtown
Milwaukee, the nation's 17th largest
city, and about a mile west of Lake
Michigan. Marquette is not a typical
urban university. An eighty acre
campus with grass and trees, an
outdoor athletic complex, and a
nationally and internationally
diverse, residential student body
all combine to make Marquette a
unique, close-knit community in
which you can live and learn.
UNIQUE/SPECIAL PROGRAMS
For
more than 450 years, Jesuit
education has been synonymous with
academic excellence. At its heart is
a rigorous core curriculum. All
Marquette undergraduates take a
combination of courses in
philosophy, speech, literature,
history, mathematics and theology.
The core provides a foundation of
skills -- the ability to think
critically, ask the right questions,
formulate and support an argument,
communicate clearly, and act with
moral integrity -- that will serve
you the rest of your life.
"A Marquette education won't teach
you what to think. It will teach you
how to think."
