100 Grant St.
De Pere, WI 54115

St. Norbert College is a Catholic liberal arts school in De Pere, Wisconsin that was founded in 1898 by Abbot Bernard Pennings, a priest from the Catholic Norbertine Order. Originally, the Wisconsin School was intended to prepare men for priesthood and became coeducational in 1952.

Undergraduate programs at St. Norbert College are broken into three divisions, humanities and fine arts, natural sciences and social sciences. The more than 30 undergraduate fields of study include American studies, environmental policy, international business and language area studies, nursing, and theatre studies. St. Norbert College also offers several minors, including leadership studies, peace and justice, and classical studies.

The Wisconsin School offers graduate programs in theological studies and education and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. St. Norbert College also provides students with a nationally recognized leadership development program, designed to integrate first-year students in campus leadership beginning with their first semester of school. U.S. News and World Report ranks St. Norbert College as one of the best liberal arts colleges in the nation and Kaplan/Newsweek calls the college a top school.

Quick Facts:

St. Norbert College's student body consists of more than 2,000 undergraduate students and more than 80 graduate students. Students at the Wisconsin school represent 26 states and 29 foreign countries.

The student-to-faculty ratio at St. Norbert College is 14-to-1, with an average class size of 20.

More than 74 percent of students at this Wisconsin school live on campus and 50 percent participate in the more than 63 registered student clubs and organizations.

St. Norbert College offers students more than 75 study abroad opportunities in 31 countries on six different continents. Compared to other Catholic schools, twice as many students choose to study abroad.

More than 95 percent of students at St. Norbert College receive financial aid.

St. Norbert College is an NCAA Division III school, with about 20 percent of students participating in varsity sports. The Wisconsin school's hockey, football, and basketball teams are nationally ranked.

Ninety-three percent of the full-time faculty at St. Norbert College have the highest degrees in their fields.

Within nine months of graduation, 98 percent of students from St. Norbert College are either employed or attending graduate school.

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