St. Leo College
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| Motto | You'll love the person you become here. |
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| Type | Private, coeducational, liberal arts |
| Established | 1889, established or re-established as a college in 1959 |
| Affiliation | Catholic Church (Order of Saint Benedict) |
| Endowment | $43,682,218 |
| President | LTG William Lennox, U.S. Army (Retired) |
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Academic staff
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1,376 |
| Students | 14,654 |
| Location | Saint Leo, Florida, United States |
| Campus | Rural |
| Colors | Green and Gold |
| Athletics | NCAA Division II – Sunshine State |
| Nickname | Saint Leo Lions |
| Affiliations | Roman Catholic Church, Holy Name Monastery, Saint Leo Abbey |
| Website |
www.saintleo.edu online.saintleo.edu |
Saint Leo University is a private, non-profit, Roman Catholic liberal arts university established in 1889 and reestablished in 1959. It is located in St. Leo, Florida, 35 miles north of Tampa.
The university is associated with the Holy Name Monastery, a Benedictine convent, and Saint Leo Abbey, a Benedictine monastery. The university and the abbey are both named for Pope Leo the Great, for Leo XIII, who was Pope at the time, and for Leo Haid, then abbot of Maryhelp Abbey in North Carolina, now Belmont Abbey, who participated in founding the university and served as its first president.
The first Roman Catholic college in Florida, and the sixth-largest in the United States, Saint Leo University was one of the first American universities to provide distance learning opportunities to students, beginning to educate military men and women in 1973 during the Vietnam era at the height of the anti-war movement.
Saint Leo University enrolls students at the traditional University Campus and at more than 40 education centers and offices. University wide, Saint Leo enrolls students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, three U.S. territories as well as dozens of military base centers, and the University's Center for Online Learning.
Worldwide, Saint Leo University had a total enrollment of 14,654 students in 2016, many of whom were military-related students. 2,265 students were enrolled at the university campus in Saint Leo, FL. Saint Leo University offers over 40 associate, baccalaureate, and master's degree, and certificate programs, and inaugurated its first doctoral program in 2013. The university employs no teaching assistants. Two hundred nineteen full-time faculty and 1,157 fully qualified adjunct faculty members.
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