About the Colleges

• Has one of the finest reputations in the region for preparing students for a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree;
• Provides for clinical hands-on experiences;
• Offers personal attention with a 13:1 student-faculty ratio;
• Prepares students to consistently perform above the national average on their licensure exam;
• Offers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree that equips students to go into any area;
• Enables students, by virtue of their graduating from an accredited school with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, to go directly on to a master’s degree;
• Has faculty with nursing degrees and practical experience;
• Celebrates more than a century of tradition and an ongoing commitment to meeting the changing needs of the nursing field;
• Has a baccalaureate enrollment of 300 and a master's enrollment of 48;
• Has a new 73,000-square-foot, self-contained campus and state-of-the-art, full simulation nursing labs.

• Founded in 1898 by the Norbertine order and dedicated to service;
• Serves 2,200 graduate and undergraduate students;
• Named one of the “Best in the Midwest” for 2012 by the Princeton Review;
• Named to the John Templeton Foundation’s Honor Roll for Character-Building Colleges;
• Provides a four-year graduation guarantee;
• Enables 92 percent of its students to find employment or gain admission to graduate school, according to those surveyed nine months after graduation;
• Has a strong alumni network and Career Service programs;
• Has faculty who actively advise and mentor students;
• Provides personal attention with a 14:1 student-faculty ratio;
• Offers immersion experiences, service trips and faculty/student collaborative research;
• Admits an incoming-student population with an average ACT score of 25 and a 3.5 high school grade point average.