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The name of the school refers to the Blessed Virgin Mary. St. Mary's has been educating women for more than 150 years and is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for women. It was the first school to offer graduate degrees in Theology for women. Known as The Nation's Premier Catholic Women's College, Saint Mary’s College consistently ranks at the top of its category in the U.S. News and World Report annual survey of American colleges and universities (as of 2007, the college has earned the #1 spot 12 out of the last 13 years). The college combines a strong liberal arts program with a spiritual foundation and a dedicated alumnae family. HeritageIn 1843, four Sisters of the Holy Cross came from Le Mans, France, to share in the apostolate of education with the priests and brothers of the Congregation of Holy Cross, who had been sent by the bishop of Vincennes to open a college in northern Indiana. In 1844, the sisters opened their first school in Bertrand, Michigan, a few miles from Notre Dame du Lac; it was a boarding academy with pre-collegiate grades. In 1855 the school moved to its present site and grew to become Saint Mary’s College. Eleven presidents took the school from a small finishing school ministering to orphans, to a college offering five bachelor’s degrees. There are approximately 18,000 living alumnae. Proposals to merge with Notre Dame University (located across the street) in the 1970s were rejected, and Notre Dame became coeducational on its own.
AcademicsIn 2004-5 the average salary of full professors was $69,600; of associate professors $55,900 and of assistant professors, $46,900.
11:1 student/faculty ratio;
97% of regular full-time faculty have their Ph.D. or terminal degree in their field;
Liberal Arts program (Humanistic Studies);
Degree programs in:
Bachelor of Arts;
Bachelor of Business Administration;
Bachelor of Fine Arts;
Bachelor of Music;
Bachelor of Science;
Special ProgramsA Notre Dame Co-Exchange program where students can take up to two classes per semester on the University of Notre Dame campus; A Co-Operative Engineering Program with the University of Notre Dame; International Study programs to Australia, France, Ireland, Rome, South Africa, Spain, or a Semester Around the World; A program that allows students to create their own major.; Each varsity sport has its own Academic Advisor; Opportunities for internships and volunteer service.;
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