44% male
98% age 24 and under
74% Catholic
36% minority
The 2023–2024 estimated charges, including tuition, room, board, and fees, for full-time undergraduates is $65,240.
Graduate
1,042 students
41% minority
36% Catholic
== Academics ==
=== Core curriculum and traditional liberal education ===
The university has resisted a focus on "trades and job training" and pursued the traditional ideas of a liberal arts education according to the model described by John Henry Newman in The Idea of a University. Donald and Louise Cowan were instrumental in developing and implementing the university's "Core Curriculum," a collection of approximately twenty courses (two years) of common study covering philosophy, theology, history, literature, politics, economics, mathematics, science, art, and a foreign language. The curriculum includes a slate of required courses which cover specific texts, permitting professors to assume a common body of knowledge and speak across disciplines. Classes in these core subjects typically …
