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A
few facts about the Department & College...
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THE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT |
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- Academically,
the student-athletes within the Department shined brightly
this past year as:
- 48
student-athletes earned Academic All-MIAA conference
honors (minimum 3.5 GPA)
- 4
teams, Basketball, Cross Country, Swimming, & Volleyball earned All-MIAA Team
GPA honors (minim. 3.3)
- nearly
75% of all student-athletes earned Dean's List honors
at the College
- Saint
Mary's has thrived on the playing fields, courts, and pool:
- Basketball,
Golf, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Tennis, & Volleyball
have all been represented on All-MIAA squads
- Golf,
Tennis and Swimming have each had individual conference
champions in the MIAA
- The Saint Mary's athletic department finished their best overall athletic season since joining the MIAA during the 1998-99 school year with a fourth place finish in the conference's women's all-sports standings.
- Golfer Megan Mattia was named to the National Golf Coaches Association's Region II first-team.
- Freshman pitcher Kristen Amram was named the MIAA MVP. Amram went 6-1 in league games while posting the best strikeout rate in MIAA games (13.0 k/7 innings).
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| THE COLLEGE |
- National Recognition
- Widely known as "The Nation's Premier Catholic Women's
College"
- For
9 of the last 10 years, the US News & World Report ranks
Saint Mary's College #1 within its category
- Named
in Barron's Best Buys as one of the colleges
that gives parents and students the most
for their money
- Highlighted
in Peterson's Competitive Colleges Guide for
four years as one of the top colleges in the
nation based upon the high achievements of our
incoming students
- The Gourman
Report has rated Saint Mary's highest among all
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA)
schools
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- Academics
- Student/Faculty ratio of 12/1
- Average class size of 16
- 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
- An opportunity for self-designed majors
- Health Professional programs offered in Nursing and
Biology/Pre-Occupational Therapy
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- A Wired Campus
- There are 7 computer clusters (including Trumper Center
in the library) with approximately 100 Windows and Macintosh
computers located throughout campus
- The campus computer network connects every classroom,
auditorium, and residence hall on campus
- A ResNet connection per student in residence halls
providing both web and e-mail services
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- Enrollment Choices of First-year Students
- Among those who declared a major field, the most frequently
mentioned:
- Education
- Fine Arts
- Communication
- Business
- Psychology
- Major does not have to be declared until the end of
sophomore year
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- Housing
- 5 Residence Halls, each with their own Hall Director,
& front access doors that are staffed 24 hours per
day
- Over 75% of students live on campus
- Secure, underground tunnels that run throughout the
campus linking most buildings and residence halls
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- Special Programs
- Each varsity sport has its own Academic Advisor
- A Notre Dame Co-Exchange program where
students can take up to two classes per semester
on the Notre Dame campus
- A Co-Operative Engineering
Program with Notre Dame
- International Study programs
to Australia, France, Ireland, Rome, Spain, or a Semester
Around the World
- A program that allows you to
create your own major - a Self-designed major
gives flexibility to study outside the traditional
department structure
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- Construction
on campus
- A new
dining hall opened at the end of the 2003 summer with updated
and improved food choices from home-baked pizza, to vegetarian
fare, and an enlarged salad bar
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