Benedictine University

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Benedictine University, located in Lisle, Illinois, was established in 1887. It was founded as St. Procopius College by a group of Benedictine monks from the nearby St. Procopius Abbey on the West Side of Chicago. It began as an all-male school, but it didn’t offer any post-secondary education until 1901, when it moved from downtown Chicago to then-rural, now-suburban town of Lisle. The school became coeducational in 1968, changed its name to Illinois Benedictine College in 1971, and then again to Benedictine University in 1996. The school’s colors are red and white, and its athletic nickname is the eagle.

Today, it enrolls about 5,000 students per year and counting. It has a satellite campus called Benedictine University at Mesa in Mesa, Arizona. Benedictine also partners with two Chinese universities—Shenyang University of Technology and Shenyang Jianzhu University—to offer Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Management Information Systems programs overseas. For a time, it partnered with Springfield College in Illinois to offer courses in the state capital, but the site closed down in 2018.

On Campus

Noteworthy features on campus include the Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum, a natural history museum displaying more than 10,000 locally collected specimens, and the Center for Values-Driven Leadership, a scholar-practitioner center designed to help leaders improve their companies and contribute to business and society.

Notable Alumni

Notable Benedictine University alumni include Jim Ryan, former Illinois Attorney General; Carrie Johnson, justice correspondent for NPR; former NFL linebacker Rob DeVita; and NFL coach Bill Callahan.

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