University-wide, Saint Leo educates students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, three U.S. territories, and more than 80 countries. As of 2023, total enrollment was 10,231.
Saint Leo was one of the first American universities to provide distance learning opportunities to students, beginning with educating military men and women in 1973 during the Vietnam era at the height of the anti-war movement. Saint Leo University offers more than 55 associate, baccalaureate, and master's degrees, and certificate programs and inaugurated its first doctoral program in 2013. The university website listed 447 faculty and staff members in July 2025.
== History ==
Saint Leo traces its history to August 10, 1881, when Edmund F. Dunne, a former chief justice of the Arizona Territory, gained control of 100,000 acres in Florida. He established a Catholic colony in an area that is now the city of San Antonio and the town of St. Leo.
To accommodate a number of German-speaking colonists, John Moore, Bishop of the Diocese …
