College of St. Scholastica
College of St. Scholastica
The College of Saint Scholastica is a private college with its main campus located in Duluth, Minnesota. The College was founded in 1912 by a group of pioneering Benedictine Sisters who offered college courses to six young women. Today St. Scholastica educates more than 2,800 men and women and has graduated more than 13,000 alumni.
The 186-acre (0.75 km2) campus is set on a hill overlooking Lake Superior. Campus buildings include: Tower Hall, the Science Center, Our Lady Queen of Peace Chapel, the Myles Reif Recreation Center, Burns Wellness Commons, the 500-seat Mitchell Auditorium, the College Library, the Little Theatre, a newly-expanded Student Union, Somers Residence Hall and seven apartment complexes.
Adjoining the campus are St. Scholastica Monastery, home of the Benedictine Sisters, and the Benedictine Health Center, which serves the needs of the Duluth area and provides opportunities for practical experience for many of the College’s health science and behavioral arts and sciences students. St. Scholastica has a 13:1 student-to-teacher ratio and offers 17 intercollegiate athletics programs, with more than 50 extracurricular offerings.
St. Scholastica is consistently recognized for excellence by U.S. News & World Report Report magazine. The magazine’s 2010 “America’s Best Colleges” ranks St. Scholastica in the Top Tier of regional universities in the Midwest.[2]
The college awards bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and two doctoral degrees, the Doctor of Physical Therapy and the Doctor of Nursing Practice. Undergraduate areas of study include business, computer science, education, English, humanities, mathematics, nursing and other health-related fields, religious studies, and sociology. Graduate programs include business, education, and health-related fields.
In addition to the main campus in Duluth, St. Scholastica also has sites in Brainerd, St. Cloud, Rochester, St. Paul, as well as a virtual campus.
St. Scholastica has a number of undergraduate programs, including Advertising, Biochemistry, Education, English, Exercise Physiology, Nursing, and Ojibwe Language and Culture Education. Graduate programs offered include the Doctor of Physical Therapy, Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction, and Master of Arts in Computer Information Systems.
St. Scholastica utilizes a program called “Dignitas” (Dignity), which all students are required to take part in. Students are made to choose a single course their first year of school that may focus on as broad a category as the psychology behind human beings bowling alone. These classes are very participation-driven and have students do such hands-on things as helping out in the community, gardening, and creating a mission statement for one’s own life. St. Scholastica faculty is very proud of this program and claim that CSS was one of the very first colleges to use such a method to introduce their students to the campus, the faculty, and one another; they even go so far as to say that the springing up of similar programs over recent years in neighboring colleges was due to their influence.
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