How does St. Catherine’s resemble a university more than a college?
St. Catherine’s is the only college or university in the Minnesota Private College Council to confer degrees at the associate, baccalaureate, master’s and doctoral levels, making us the most comprehensive of the 17 institutions in the MPCC. For the past 15 years the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has categorized St. Catherine’s as a master’s-level institution. That classification reflects the reality that we offer 11 graduate programs, including the recently announced Doctor of Nursing Practice. Although we are best known as a women’s college, we began to move beyond the traditional liberal arts college model — serving traditional-age residential students, on one campus, with classes only on weekdays — with the founding of Weekend College in 1979.
