Saint Vincent College

Saint Vincent College is an educational community rooted in the tradition of the Catholic faith, the heritage of Benedictine monasticism, and the love of values inherent in the liberal approach to life and learning. Its mission is to provide quality undergraduate and graduate education for men and women to enable them to integrate their professional aims with the broader purposes of human life. The programs, activities, and encounters that make up student life at Saint Vincent College encourage the intellectual gifts, professional aptitudes and personal aspirations of students to mature harmoniously.

Saint Vincent College is an educational community rooted in the tradition of the Catholic faith, the heritage of Benedictine monasticism, and the love of values inherent in the liberal approach to life and learning.

The Core Curriculum presents all students with a broadly based education that provides a general body of knowledge in the humanities and fine arts, social sciences, natural sciences, and mathematics, an interdisciplinary view of that knowledge base, and the skills to increase that general body of knowledge throughout their lives.

Saint Vincent is organized into four schools; each includes a number of departments and major and minor programs, as well as special programs and public service outreach activities. Each school has its own Dean who works closely with students, faculty and prospective students. Undeclared majors will eventually choose a major that fits into one of the four schools.

* Alex G. McKenna School of Business, Economics and Government
* School of Social Sciences, Communication, and Education
* School of Humanities and Fine Arts
* Herbert W. Boyer School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Computing

Saint Vincent College offers you the opportunity to make lifelong friendships, learn from challenging and caring professors, and enjoy many new and different experiences.

The Saint Vincent faculty totals 207. Nearly 75% have earned doctorates or terminal degrees at such schools as Catholic University, Cornell, Ecole Biblique, Notre Dame, Stanford, University of California, University of Chicago, and Yale. The student to faculty ratio is 13 to 1.

Our immediate neighborhood, the Laurel Highlands, offers some wonderful opportunities for outdoor recreation including everything from mountain biking, hiking, snow skiing in winter and whitewater rafting in the summer. Nearby are some notable historical sites and destinations of cultural significance such as Frank Lloyd Wright's famous "Falling Water." The Palace Theater in Greensburg is a local venue for the performing arts, including a regional symphony orchestra. We also have our own Saint Vincent Theatre that generally produces three shows per summer season. The Westmoreland Mall on the eastern side of Greensburg is a major regional shopping mall. Those few things you can't find in the Latrobe-Greensburg area will surely be in Pittsburgh - only 40 miles away. Among other Pittsburgh attractions, you'll find some outstanding museums, fabulous performing arts - including the world-class Pittsburgh Symphony, and a fascinating set of neighborhoods to explore. Pittsburgh has a great sports tradition and the pro teams are a pride of the region. Saint Vincent hosts the summer training camp for the Pittsburgh Steelers football team and you'll find hundreds of fans on campus every late July and August!

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