Marquette University

Marquette University is a Jesuit Catholic university located in the heart of downtown Milwaukee, offering a wide variety of majors in 11 nationally and globally known colleges and schools. Marquette's curriculum gives students a nearly infinite number of routes and destinations and prepares them for the future by asking them to think critically about it. The university believes in the provision of education that has transformative experience. Through its requirements in nine core fields of study, undergraduate majors and minors, and master's, doctoral and professional credential programs, the university encourages students to think critically about topics impacting their communities and the world.

Marquette is organized into 11 schools and colleges at its main Milwaukee campus, offering programs in the liberal arts, business, communication, education, engineering, law and various health sciences disciplines. The university also administers classes in suburbs around the Milwaukee area and in Washington, DC. While most students are pursuing undergraduate degrees, the univer... Read more

Marquette University is a Jesuit Catholic university located in the heart of downtown Milwaukee, offering a wide variety of majors in 11 nationally and globally known colleges and schools. Marquette's curriculum gives students a nearly infinite number of routes and destinations and prepares them for the future by asking them to think critically about it. The university believes in the provision of education that has transformative experience. Through its requirements in nine core fields of study, undergraduate majors and minors, and master's, doctoral and professional credential programs, the university encourages students to think critically about topics impacting their communities and the world.

Marquette is organized into 11 schools and colleges at its main Milwaukee campus, offering programs in the liberal arts, business, communication, education, engineering, law and various health sciences disciplines. The university also administers classes in suburbs around the Milwaukee area and in Washington, DC. While most students are pursuing undergraduate degrees, the university has over 68 doctoral and master's degree programs, a law school, a dental school (only one in the state), and 22 graduate certificate programs. The university's varsity athletic teams, known as the Golden Eagles, are members of the Big East Conference and compete in the NCAA's Division I in all sports.

The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student satisfaction, is 89%. At Marquette University, 59% of full-time undergraduates receive some kind of need-based financial aid, and the average need-based scholarship or grant award is $25,967.