Saint Bonaventure University

Founded  in 1858, St. Bonaventure University is located on 500 acres in southwestern New York state. We prepare our students for a good journey through life and for their professional careers by beginning their studies with a strong liberal arts curriculum.

We require all of our students to take 40 percent of their total credits in core liberal arts courses: literature, history, philosophy, classics, art and the fundamental sciences. We offer 43 undergraduate majors, the most popular of which are elementary education, journalism, psychology, accounting, marketing, finance and management.

In 1855, Pamphilus da Magliano and three friars came to Western New York at the invitation of John Timon, Bishop of Buffalo, and Utica landowner Nicholas Devereux to establish a Catholic college and seminary. They formed the nucleus of the group of friars who created St. Bonaventure’s College.

On Oct. 4, 1858, the Feast of St. Francis, the formal dedication of the new school was held on the tract of land donated by Devereux. It was then that the College was named after St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, the Patron of Franciscan Studies and Learning.

St. Bonaventure College held its first commencement exercise in June 1860, graduating a class of 15 students. Since then the University has grown to more than 2,700 students. Devereux Hall, the University’s oldest building.The College was provisionally chartered on March 1, 1875, by an Act of the Regents of the State of New York, “For the instruction… in the learned languages and in the liberal and useful arts and sciences.”  In the 1920s the College developed a full-time graduate program, which has continually expanded since that time.

Courses Offered
Undergraduate Programs

• B.S./D.P.T. Physical Therapy (3+4 Program with Daemen College)
• B.S./M.D. Medicine (4+4 Program with the George Washington University School of Medicine)
• B.S./D.O. Osteopathic Medicine (Program with Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine)
• B.S./D.Pharm Pharmacy (3+3 Program with Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine)
• B.S./D.D.S Dental Medicine

Graduate Programs

• MSED Counselor Education Community Mental Health
• MSED Counselor Education School
• MSED Adolescent Literacy
• MSED Childhood Literacy
• MSED Adolescence Education
• MSED Advanced Inclusive Processes
• MSED Educational Leadership
• Integrated Marketing Communications
• Masters of Business Administration
• Masters of Professional Leadership
• Master of Arts in English
• Masters in Franciscan Studies

Schools

• School of Arts and Sciences
• School of Business
• School of Education
• School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Contact Details
St. Bonaventure University
3261 West State Road
St. Bonaventure, NY 14778
716-375-2000, 1-800-462-5050
Official Website: http://www.sbu.edu/