The College of St Scholastica

The College of St. Scholastica is a Catholic Benedictine institution and the only independent private college in northeastern Minnesota.

The College was founded in 1912 by a group of pioneering Benedictine Sisters who offered college courses to six young women. Today St. Scholastica educates more than 3,250 men and women and has graduated more than 16,000 alumni.

The College is guided by its Mission Statement, its Statement of Purposes, its Diversity Statement and by the Benedictine Values of community, hospitality, respect, stewardship and love of learning.

The 186-acre Duluth campus is set on a ridge overlooking Lake Superior. Campus buildings include: majestic Tower Hall, the Science Center, Our Lady Queen of Peace Chapel, Burns Wellness Commons, the 500-seat Mitchell Auditorium, the College library, St. Scholastica Theatre, Somers residence hall, Cedar, Kerst, and Scanlon apartments, and several smaller residential buildings.

St. Scholastica is consistently recognized for excellence by U.S. News & World Report magazine. The magazine’s 2008 “America’s Best Colleges” ranks St. Scholastica in the Top Tier of regional universities in the Midwest. St. Scholastica has been called a “hidden gem” by the Washington Post.

Mission
Benedictines have always been attracted to the tree as a metaphor for the growth and dissemination of the Benedictine way of life – most often in the genealogical sense of family tree, growing as each monastery in turn gives birth to new “daughter houses.” St. Scholastica Priory, for example, traces its lineage back though houses in St. Joseph, MN; St. Mary’s, PA; and Eichstatt, Bavaria; to the convent of Nonnberg in Austria which first adopted the Rule of Benedict in the eighth century. This genealogical tree is somewhat misleading, though, because it invokes an image of unbroken continuity between root, stem and branch which has not always been the case in Benedictine monasticism. A more accurate model is that of the tree repeatedly cut down, but whose roots continually send forth new shoots. Indeed, the motto of the monastery of Montecassino is succisa virescit: “cut it down, and it grows up stronger.”

Courses Offered
Undergraduate Programs

• Advertising
• Biochemistry
• Education
• English
• Exercise Physiology
• Nursing
• Ojibwe Language
• Culture Education

Graduate Programs

• Doctor of Physical Therapy
• Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction
• Master of Arts in Computer Information Systems

Schools

• School of Arts and Letters
• School of Business and Technology
• School of Education
• School of Health Sciences
• School of Nursing
• School of Sciences

Center & Institutes

• Center for Healthcare Innovation
• Center for Scholarly and Creative Excellence
• Aging/Social Work Institute

Contact Details
The College of St. Scholastica
1200 Kenwood Avenue,
Duluth, MN 55811
(218) 723-6000,(800) 447-5444
Official Website: http://www.css.edu/