Marquette University

Marquette University is a private Jesuit Catholic university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, founded in 1881 and named for the missionary Jacques Marquette. It grew from a small college into one of the larger Jesuit universities in the United States. It occupies an urban campus west of downtown Milwaukee, near the city's courts, hospitals, and lakefront, and retains a Jesuit mission of professional education in a city setting.

Colleges and schools include Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, Communication, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, Nursing, Law, and Dentistry. Signature professional programs are law, dentistry, physical therapy, and nursing; engineering and business also enroll substantial graduate cohorts. Clinical training uses Milwaukee hospitals and the university's dental clinic.

Enrollment is about 11,000, including roughly 3,000 graduate and professional students. International students are a minority, though professional programs draw some students from abroad. Faculty number in the hundreds, plus clinical instructors in law, dentistry, and the health sciences. Alumni include basketball player Dwyane Wade and comedian Chris Farley.

Graduate study covers master's and doctoral degrees in the arts and sciences and engineering, the J.D., the D.D.S., and health-science doctorates such as physical therapy. Professional coursework is combined with a research or clinical practicum. The calendar is semester-based. Graduate students live in and around downtown Milwaukee and use the city's courts, clinics, and manufacturers as placement sites.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Marquette University lists 63 graduate programs across 24 subjects: 39 master's programs and 22 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in health & medical sciences, education and biomedical engineering.