Engaged Students

Marquette students connect classroom learning to real-world applications through service learning, internship and study abroad programs and an extraordinary commitment to social justice through service...

Mind, Heart and Soul

• The university’s urban location provides numerous opportunities for volunteer service. Each year, Marquette students perform more than one hundred thousand hours of community service in such programs as Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Habitat for Humanity, and the Senior Citizens’ Prom. Advertising and public relations students help create information campaigns for nonprofit organizations, and accounting students offer volunteer tax-preparation services. The university offers a service learning program in South Africa, in which students take classes and help community-based organizations to give voice to disadvantaged people. Nursing students take part in Marquette’s HIV/AIDS program in Africa.

• Marquette students participate in study-abroad programs on six continents, generally during their sophomore or junior year. For those students with language skills, Spain, France, and Mexico are particularly popular destinations. Ireland and Australia are common study-abroad locations for those seeking an English-language experience.

• Internships with companies and organizations in Milwaukee play a major role in many Marquette students’ educations. Marquette’s Les Aspin Center for Government began as a single student internship, and has since grown into one of the nation’s leading congressional internship programs. Sitting in the shadow of the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, the Aspin Center provides living and classroom space for students interested in government. Students meet and discuss issues with officials from the Pentagon, the Department of State, and the Central Intelligence Agency. Participants have also worked in the White House, the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Defense, and the Secret Service.

Great Teaching

Magis, Latin for “more”, is central to Marquette’s philosophy on education. It’s a call for excellence in all things, a high standard that demands faculty and students alike to do more, to achieve more, to become more — a challenge to make the world a better place...

Do more

• Drawing on 450 years of Jesuit tradition, Marquette’s Core of Common Studies requires students to choose eleven courses from nine different areas, including rhetoric, individual and social behavior, science and nature, literature and performing arts, and diverse cultures.

• Marquette’s undergraduate business program has received national recognition, and for several years Marquette has been named one of the nation’s notable entrepreneurial universities. Using their training in the real world, students from the college of engineering have completed a two-year bridge-building program in Guatemala.

• Marquette offers several innovative interdisciplinary majors and minors, including African-American studies, international affairs, and women’s studies.

The Manresa Project, established with a grant from the Lilly Foundation, is part of Marquette’s commitment to service and learning. This vocational discernment program provides leadership and ministry training for students considering the priesthood or lay ministry. The program also provides workshops on prayerful discernment, hosts alumni speakers, and awards scholarships to qualifying juniors and seniors.

• Marquette faculty are known as leaders in research and writing, but also for providing hands-on guidance and advice to their students. The overall student-to-faculty ratio is fifteen to one, and the average class size is twenty-five. Marquette offers fifty-two undergraduate majors.

Academic Programs
Accounting, Advertising, Anthropology, Athletic Training, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Sciences, Broadcast & Electronic Communication, Business Administration, Business Economics, Chemistry, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Classical Languages, Classical Studies, Clinical Laboratory Science, Communication Studies, Computational Mathematics, Computer Science, Criminology & Law Studies, Economics, Education, Electrical Engineering, English, Exercise Science, Finance, French, German, History, Human Resources Management, Information Technology, International Affairs, International Business, Journalism, Marketing, Mathematics, Nursing, Operations & Supply Chain Management, Mechanical Engineering, Philosophy, Physics, Physiological Sciences, Political Science, Psychology, Public Relations, Social Welfare & Justice, Sociology, Spanish Language & Literature, Spanish for the Professions, Speech Pathology & Audiology, Theatre Arts, Theology. College of Professional Studies. Graduate School, Law School, School of Dentistry.

Vibrant Community

Marquette students come from all 50 states and 80 countries to create an energetic, residential community in the heart of the city. They channel their seemingly boundless energy into their work and their play, performing at a high level in the classroom and taking full advantage of all a big city like Milwaukee offers: internships, service opportunities and, of course, fun...

Live it, Love it

• Marquette is located on an ninety-acre campus in an urban setting. With unlimited use of public transportation, Marquette students find it easy to enjoy Milwaukee’s cultural, educational, and entertainment opportunities. The Lake Michigan shoreline is just two miles from campus.

• As it has expanded through the years, Marquette has absorbed several nearby buildings—a hospital, the downtown Milwaukee YMCA, and several hotels—and converted them into attractive residence halls. About 94 percent of students choose to live on campus or adjacent to it. Themed housing options include floors dedicated to engineering, nursing, leadership, and honors scholarship.

• Marquette has about 250 student organizations offering cultural, athletic, intellectual, spiritual, and social activities of many different kinds. Through the years, Marquette has been a Division I basketball powerhouse. Marquette students have opportunities to attend numerous basketball games.

Successful Outcomes

Excellence begets excellence. Marquette’s commitment to excellence in all things is perfect preparation for your career and, more important, for your life beyond your career. Whatever your goals, Marquette will provide the skills — and the understanding of your responsibilities with those skills — that you need to achieve those goals...

A Tradition of Service

• A Marquette education is designed to prepare students for their professions, and for life beyond their professions. Marquette’s career services department provides students with an extensive database of job listings and search engines, as well as online advice about interviewing, resumes, and networking. These services provide students and alumni with assistance in developing their career paths.

• While many Marquette graduates stay in the Milwaukee area, working for multinational firms like GE Medical, the Miller Brewing Company, Harley-Davidson, or Northwestern Mutual, a substantial number of students begin their careers in Chicago; New York; Atlanta; Washington, DC; and Minneapolis-St. Paul. About one in three students continues on to graduate school.

• Among Marquette’s many notable alumni are Chicago Sun-Times executive editor John Barron; Tony Award-winning actor Anthony Crivello; comedian Chris Farley; Patrick Eugene Haggerty, founder of Texas Instruments; Rudy Perpich, former governor of Minnesota; and Miami Heat basketball player Dwyane Wade. Many others alumni contribute to their communities through their work in politics, medicine, scientific research, nursing, teaching, law, and literature.