Study at Bellarmine University

The main campus of Bellarmine is in Louisville, KY (a large city). The school is a Roman Catholic institution. Bellarmine is a private, not-for-profit school. The school offers degrees up to the Doctoral degree.

Course Topics

Bellarmine students most commonly major in a field related to nursing and emergency medicine and therapy and counseling.

Bellarmine Selectivity

The school does not accept everyone who applies. In 2007, SAT verbal scores of half of students were 500 to 620. Three-fourths of students accepted in 2007 had SAT math scores of 510 or more. Students attending the school come from a variety of places, in and out of state.

Faculty

Bellarmine offers tenure to reward and retain some professors.

Student Enrollment

In 2007, the school had 3,001 enrolled students.

Student Life

Bellarmine is generally not a school for part-time students. The school makes available a lot of student housing. Meal plans are available. Student athletes at the school belong to the Great Lakes Valley Conference for major sports. Bellarmine takes athletics seriously enough to offer athletic financial aid to a significant portion of its students.

The school reports its educational mission is:
"Bellarmine University is an independent Catholic university serving the region, nation and world by educating talented, diverse students of many faiths, ages, nations, and cultures, and with respect for each individuals intrinsic value and dignity. We educate our students through undergraduate and graduate programs in the liberal arts and professional studies, within which students develop the intellectual, moral, ethical and professional competencies for successful living, work, leadership and service to others. We achieve these goals in an educational environment committed to excellence, academic freedom, and authentic conversations that are not dominated by particular political or other narrow perspectives. Here we seek to foster a thoughtful, informed consideration of serious ideas, values and issues time-honored and contemporary across a broad range of compelling concerns that are regional, national and international. By these means, Bellarmine seeks to benefit the public interest, to help create the future, and to improve the human condition. Thus we strive to be worthy of our foundational motto: In Veritatis Amore, In the Love of Truth."