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Saint John's University, Minnesota

Saint John's University, Minnesota

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Saint John's University Description:

Saint John's University is a private Catholic university for men located in Collegeville, a small town in central Minnesota. Saint John's has a strong partnership with the nearby College of Saint Benedict, a women's college. The two schools share a single curriculum, and classes are co-educational. Saint John's has an impressive 2,700-acre campus that includes wetlands, lakes, prairie, forest, and hiking trails. Students receive a lot of personal attention -- the university has a 12 to 1 student / faculty ratio and a median class size of 20. The university has high retention and graduation rates, and the school also has strong job and graduate school placement rates. In athletics, the Saint John's Johnnies compete in the NCAA Division III Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Admissions Data (2011):

Enrollment (2010):

  • Total Enrollment: 2,036 (1,932 undergraduates)
  • Gender Breakdown: 100% Male / 0% Female
  • 98% Full-time

Costs (2011 - 12):

  • Tuition and Fees: $33,606
  • Books: $1,000 (why so much?)
  • Room and Board: $8,344
  • Other Expenses: $1,300
  • Total Cost: $44,250

Saint John's University Financial Aid (2009 - 10):

  • Percentage of New Students Receiving Aid: 99%
  • Saint John's University Scholarships (Cappex.com)
  • Percentage of New Students Receiving Types of Aid
    • Grants: 99%
    • Loans: 59%
  • Average Amount of Aid
    • Grants: $18,201
    • Loans: $7,880

Most Popular Majors:

Accounting, Biology, Business Administration, Economics, English, Political Science

Graduation and Retention Rates:

  • First Year Student Retention (full-time students): 92%
  • 4-Year Graduation Rate: 66%
  • 6-Year Graduation Rate: 74%

Data Source:

National Center for Educational Statistics

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Saint John's University Mission Statement:

mission statement from the Saint John's website

"The mission of Saint John’s University is to renew the fabric of community from one generation to the next, ever striving for excellence, ever grounded in Benedictine tradition.

Saint John's University provides education in the liberal arts and graduate theological disciplines in the Catholic university tradition.

Saint John's seeks to preserve the well-springs of human culture, to deepen understanding of human interdependence, and to prepare students for full, integrated lives of faith and reason, action and love.

Saint John's strives to relate teaching, learning, and scholarship to the residential life of the campus, community worship, the practice of the arts, and programs of service.

These activities are animated by the Benedictine practices of community life, prayer, hospitality and the search for wisdom, as well as by Saint John's own historic commitments to the well-being of diverse human communities, the formation of leaders in successive generations, and the ongoing renewal of the Church.

Saint John's pursues this mission on the undergraduate level, where it offers residential liberal arts education in coordination with the College of Saint Benedict, as well as through graduate theological education, long-standing programs of cultural preservation and transmission, and a variety of sponsored programs."

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