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Successful Careers, Meaningful Lives
A college education prepares you for your career. But at Saint Vincent College, it goes much deeper. Here, students learn the career skills they need to thrive while embracing the fundamental values and knowledge that help them pursue deeper truths for a better, more successful life.
In our classrooms, on campus, and in the community, our Catholic and Benedictine values come to life. Students engage with professors and each other, from the Listening Seminar of our SVC Core Curriculum all the way to graduation.
And when they go out into the world, our graduates are ready to find their calling—always supported by a network of Bearcats ready to help them succeed.
Meet Saint Vincent
Rooted in Tradition, Focused on the Future
The Rule of St. Benedict—a timeless 1,500-year-old book—reminds us that personal success finds meaning only when we come together to build a stronger and more inclusive society.
Built on these fundamental truths, and sponsored by the largest Benedictine monastic community in the world, we prepare our students to embrace and transform the world.
A Welcoming Community
As a Benedictine institution, we place a priority on the strength of our community. At Saint Vincent College, our community is strengthened by diversity, understanding, and compassion. We embrace Saint Benedict’s challenge of extending hospitality to all people, regardless of differences, and invite them to become a part of our community of support, growth, and learning.
Hospitality
Benedictines define hospitality as having the right approach to how we treat one another—as simple as checking in on a classmate or as transformative as seeing the world through a new perspective.
You see it every day on campus, from everyday acts like holding open doors to a fundamental welcome for all who step foot on campus. Our tradition does not prevent us from welcoming those who may not be Catholic or even religious; indeed, we extend that welcome to people of all faiths, backgrounds, and walks of life.
It is this approach that has made Saint Vincent College so successful in educating the next generation for more than 175 years, and that will allow us to continue to move forward, always forward.
Thriving for Excellence
Our professors take pride in delivering an education that asks students to perform at their best. Bearcats distinguish themselves each time they pass a test, master a skill and expand their views to see a new perspective.
Here, students learn in small classes designed for their needs and learning preferences. Professors are nationally-known experts in their fields who have a passion of passing on their expertise. And everyone works together to thrive for excellence, working to create a better world.
Renewal
Find the right college experience, and you go far beyond the classroom.
Here, that means gathering for student events, athletic competitions, and client reflection for Mass in the student chapel. It also means taking hiking or skiing trips in the beautiful Laurel Mountains, or going for international study abroad and mission trips in Germany, Ireland, Brazil, and Senegal.
But above all, it means building a community that will stay with you for life. Bearcats live together, learn together, and play together, creating the connections that will carry them far beyond graduation.
Empowering Exceptional Lives
At Saint Vincent College, motivated students achieve professional success and purposeful, meaningful lives. Our graduates become top scientists, teachers, health professionals, corporate executives, engineers, lawyers, doctors, and other leaders who engage with the local and global community to make the world a better place.
It's why, according to a recent survey, 98% of our graduates are employed in their field of choice or in graduate school within a year of graduation.
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Recent Employers
- The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- United States Army Corps of Engineers
- Crown Castle
- Honeywell
- Qualtrics
- Cleveland Browns
- U.S. Marshals Service
- FBI
- UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
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Recent Graduate School Acceptances
- Columbia University
- Northwestern University
- Gonzaga University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- SUNY Albany
- University of Connecticut
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- George Mason University
- Duquesne University
- Penn State University
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Recent Professional School Acceptances
- School of Law
- School of Dentistry
- School of Veterinary Medicine
- Georgetown School of Medicine
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
- University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
Saint Vincent College Mission Statement
Saint Vincent College is an educational community rooted in the tradition of the Catholic faith, the heritage of Benedictine monasticism and the love of values inherent in the liberal approach to life and learning. Its mission is to provide quality undergraduate and graduate education for men and women to enable them to integrate their professional aims with the broader purposes of human life. The programs, activities and encounters that make up student life at Saint Vincent College encourage the intellectual gifts, professional aptitudes and personal aspirations of students to mature harmoniously.
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