Founded: 2003

Type of institution: Small university

Setting: Suburban

Undergraduate enrollment: 745 (2011–12 academic year)

Total undergraduate cost: $28,510 (tuition, room and board for 2011–12)

Undergraduate majors: 21

Five Key Points

1.  Ave Maria provides a safe, moral climate that supports the faith and values which parents have instilled at home, with five single-sex residence halls that are among the finest in America.

2.  Our professors hold degrees from prestigious institutions like Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Cambridge, Notre Dame and Boston College, and are among the nations best.

3.  We now offer 21 majors, with an excellent core curriculum that produces graduates who can think, write, create and contribute to the common good.

4.  Our generous financial aid program keeps the cost of education at Ave Maria University among the lowest of any private university in the South.

5.  The Gulf of Mexico is a 35-minute car drive from campus, and shopping malls, restaurants and entertainment in Naples are even closer.