Fast Facts
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| Character: | A private, liberal arts, coeducational Catholic university that offers associate, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Immaculata will welcome its first undergraduate coeducational class in the fall of 2005. |
| Size: | Approximately 800 undergraduate students and another 3,200 graduate and adult students. |
| Location: | More than 375 acres on a hill overlooking historic Chester County, Pennsylvania, located on the Main Line about 20 miles west of downtown Philadelphia. |
| Student Faculty Ratio: | 13:1 Personalized academic attention is a hallmark of Immaculata's programs. |
| Class Size: | Nearly 76 percent of classes have fewer than 20 students. |
| Computer Access: | The campus has an advanced technology network that features wireless Internet connections in classrooms and residence halls as well as outstanding on-site and remote access to the resources of the Gabriele Library. |
| Programs: | More than 60 majors, minors, and pre-professional certifications, including career-oriented programs offered nowhere else in Southeastern Pennsylvania. |
| Athletics: | Immaculata's Mighty Macs compete in Division III of the NCAA and the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference. The University also sponsors several intramural clubs. |
| Internships: | All academic departments offer internship opportunities at leading businesses and organizations in the Philadelphia region either as requirements or for elective credits. |
| Alumni: | An active group of 10,000 alumni provide enthusiastic support and a wealth of vital opportunities to Immaculata University. |
| University Motto: | The university motto, which reads in Latin, Scientia floret virtute (Knowledge flourishes in virtue), expresses the ideal of a true liberal arts education in the Christian tradition. The dual meaning of the Latin word "virtute" is virtue or power. It is symbolic of the kind of strength that comes from the wisdom earned by reflective study and vigorous application. Whether one takes the word virtue in its ethical sense or in its dimension of force and energy, the intellectual and moral values that students choose to make their own enable them to go "from strength to strength." Liberally educated, Immaculata graduates have acquired that flexibility and sense of personal worth that will make them prudent risk-takers in a world that belongs to those who dare and those who care. |
| University Seal: | The disk is blue and white, the colors of the university, with a representation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary pierced with a sword superimposed on a field of light blue—a detail taken from the seal of the congregation of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. On the blue field, above the image of the heart, are twelve stars which symbolize the virtues of Mary Immaculate, patroness of the university. On the blue field beneath the image of the heart is the motto of the university, Scientia floret virtute (Knowledge flourishes in virtue). Beneath the motto is a spray of lilies under which is placed the year of the university charter, 1920. The outer edge of the disk is white, engraved with the words, Universitas Immaculatae Immaculatae Pennsylvania (Immaculata University, Immaculata, Pennsylvania). |