Your academic journey at Saint Mary’s is about discovery. It’s about digging into a topic and pushing boundaries. It’s about challenging yourself, surprising yourself, and opening yourself up to even the most unexpected ideas. Together, our more than 60 academic programs, opportunities to lead and to travel the world, extensive hands-on learning, exceptional faculty, and 10:1 student-to-faculty ratio combine to form an academic experience that simply cannot be matched.
You are Prepared for Life
Saint Mary’s alumnae are achieving their professional dreams at places like Google, Disney, MSNBC, Centers for Disease Control, the Peace Corps, the US Government, and Hollywood. Because it’s not about landing that dream job after you graduate. It’s about being prepared to thrive in it.
While studying any of our more than 60 academic programs, you’ll dig in, push boundaries, fall down, get up, challenge yourself, surprise yourself, open yourself up to new realities, and understand how, in today’s world, academic disciplines intersect every day.
Expert Faculty
Your classes will be led by accomplished faculty who are passionate about teaching and have earned their degrees at places like Boston College, Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Berkeley, Yale, Princeton, Cambridge, and Vassar, among many others.
Global Discovery
We offer yearlong, semester, and summer programs, and students can study in Italy, France, Spain, England, Australia, Ireland, Morocco, Austria, South Africa, South Korea, China, Argentina, El Salvador, Ecuador, Greece, Honduras, and Uganda.
Notre Dame Partnership
Our long-standing relationship with Notre Dame extends to the classroom. SMC students can take classes at ND as undergraduates, and through distinct accelerated bachelors-to-masters pathways through the Mendoza College of Business.
Personalized Learning
The average size of our classes is just 22 students, which means your voice will be heard and your professors will know your strengths and goals.
Proven Results
92 percent of recent Saint Mary’s alumnae are either employed full time or enrolled in graduate school one year following graduation.
- 60+academic programs to help discover your path
- 22is our average class size
- 10:1is the ratio of students to professors
A Lifetime of Learning
A Saint Mary’s education will prepare you for a lifetime of thinking, learning, growing, and achieving. We prepare you for your first job out of college and beyond for a varied career path and fulfilling life.
Developing lifelong skills
We focus on writing across our curriculum. Our conversational classroom style leads to in-depth discussions that teach you to think logically and critically. As a senior, you’ll prepare a comprehensive project or take an examination that allows you to apply the knowledge you’ve gained in your field of study to one culminating activity. Our goal is to help you develop the skills you’ll need in a constantly changing workforce and global economy.
Acquiring knowledge
You’ll learn a variety of subjects to better understand the world around you. And rather than specialize in just one specific area, you’ll take a broad view to discover the many connections between widely varying disciplines. The liberal arts provide you with the tools to become a more sophisticated problem solver and a more creative thinker. Sophia, which means “wisdom” in Greek, is the name we give to our general curriculum. But, it’s more than a general education program, Sophia is the foundation for all our majors. You will acquire knowledge across disciplines and the ability to apply that expertise inside and outside of the classroom.
Discovering interests
Covering a range of disciplines, from art to the sciences, you’ll be pushed outside your comfort zone and sample subjects you’ve never before considered. It may take you on an unexpected career path or lead to new interests that you incorporate into your planned area of study.