Saint John's University

Saint John's University

      private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Jamaica, Queens, New York, U.S. It is sponsored by the Congregation of the Mission ( Vincentian) order of the Roman Catholic church. The university includes St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Notre Dame College, St. Vincent's College, the College of Business Administration, the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, and the Metropolitan College (for adult students). It also includes schools of law and of education and human services. In addition to undergraduate studies, the university offers a selection of graduate and professional degree programs. The branch campus in Staten Island is the site of Notre Dame College. The university also has a branch campus (graduate) in Rome, Italy. Total enrollment is approximately 19,000.

      The university was founded in 1870. The Vincentians had been invited by the first bishop of Brooklyn, John Loughlin, to establish a college for men in Brooklyn. St. John's received a new charter in 1906 that elevated the school to university standing. Shortly thereafter it began admitting women, the first of whom graduated in 1913. The School of Law was founded in 1925. The university's gradual move from Brooklyn to Queens began in 1955. Notre Dame College on Staten Island opened in 1971, and the campus in Rome was established in 1995. Former New York governor Mario Cuomo is a graduate of St. John's.

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