Saint Louis University is a Catholic, Jesuit institution that values academic excellence, life-changing research, compassionate health care, and a strong commitment to faith and service. For nearly 200 years, the University has gone beyond teaching facts and figures, encouraging students to form ideas and identities. Today, SLU students are nearly 14,000 strong, seeking to mold their lives into something stronger, driven by a higher purpose, a greater good.

Those students know the value of a SLU education and that the University has invested vast resources to advance academic programs and enhance the student experience. During the past several years, the University launched more than two dozen new degree programs, added new faculty positions and increased funding for student services and campus life initiatives.

SLU also is a major research institution where world-renowned researchers tackle challenges both local and global. SLU is leading a CDC-funded Prevention Research Center and is the region’s lead institution for the largest child health study in the nation’s history. Saint Louis University’s Center for World Health and Medicine pursues treatments for diseases that threaten the developing world.

A truly international university, SLU draws students from nearly 80 countries. The University’s new Center for Global Citizenship encourages global collaboration and offers international students a place to connect with their classmates. SLU also was one of the first universities to open a campus overseas, and today Saint Louis University’s Madrid Campus is recognized as a center for international education in Spain.

Closer to home, Saint Louis University is an amazing center of human progress in the heart of a remarkable city. The University has funded more than $850 million in campus improvements and expansions during the past 25 years — bold developments that have helped transformed its Midtown St. Louis neighborhood.

The University's focus on improving St. Louis and the world starts in its classrooms, where ethics, spirituality and compassion are fundamental, no matter what the subject. More than 80 of SLU's courses integrate service into academics. But when the purpose is higher, the work doesn’t stop in the classroom; the spirit pervades campus, and SLU students, faculty and staff provide more than a million service hours each year. This commitment has earned the University national honors, including distinction as a character-building college by the Templeton Foundation.

Saint Louis University’s reputation continues to rise. Nationally, the University boasts a number of top-25 and top-50 undergraduate and graduate programs, including the country’s leading health law program for nine consecutive years.

Founded in 1818, Saint Louis University was the first university west of the Mississippi River. As it approaches 200 years, Saint Louis University is going boldly forward with an unwavering commitment to a higher purpose, a greater good.