University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)

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University of St. Thomas
logo
motto Challenge Yourself
Change Our World
founding 1885
Sponsorship Roman Catholic Church
place Saint Paul
state Minnesota
country United StatesUnited States United States
president Julie Sullivan (since 2013)
Students approx. 10,839 (2010)
Employee 1,954 (2010)
including professors 874 (2010)
Networks FIUC
Website www.stthomas.edu

The University of St. Thomas (UST) is a Catholic private university based in Saint Paul in the US state of Minnesota . It was founded in 1885 as a Catholic theological seminary. The university was named after the Catholic philosopher Thomas Aquinas . There are currently around 10,000 students enrolled there. The university's original Campus I is in St. Paul, on the Mississippi River, while the newer Campus II is in downtown Minneapolis . Since 2013 the President Dr. Julie Sullivan - and with her for the first time a woman - the business of the university.

Schools and faculties

  • College of Arts & Sciences
  • College of Applied Professional Studies
  • Graduate Programs in Software
  • Opus College of Business
  • School of Education
  • School of Engineering
  • School of Law
  • Graduate School of Professional Psychology
  • School of Social Work
  • Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity

Sports

The teams at St. Thomas are the Tommies . In 1920 you were a founding member of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC), a Division III conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Within this conference they are the largest school with almost three times the number of students of the conference average. After the Tommies won the All-Sports Trophy for both men and women twelve years in a row , they were selected from the conference in 2019. They will remain in MIAC until 2021, but can leave earlier if they find another conference beforehand.

Web links

Commons : University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Members. In: www.fiuc.org. International Federation of Catholic Universities, accessed September 17, 2019 .
  2. ^ Division III school 'involuntarily removed' from conference because it won too much. Retrieved May 23, 2019 .

Coordinates: 44 ° 56'24.9 "  N , 93 ° 11'36.3"  W.