Marquette University

Marquette University is a private school founded in 1881. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 7,652 (Fall 2023) on a 107-acre campus located in an urban area. The university operates on a semester-based academic calendar. Marquette University is ranked #86 in National Universities in the 2025 edition of Best Colleges. Its tuition and fees are $51,170.

Marquette University is a private Catholic Jesuit school within walking distance of downtown Milwaukee, a city known for its restaurants, zoo and sports. The Marquette Golden Eagles are members of the NCAA Division I Big East Conference and are especially competitive in basketball. The men's basketball team plays at the Wisconsin Entertainment & Sports Center, which is also the home of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks. The school does not have a varsity soccer team, but soccer fans can participate in intramurals. Other sports include a tennis singles league, indoor volleyball and intramural indoor water polo. Students can participate in nearly 300 clubs and organizations, and approximately 15% students participate in the Greek system, which includes more than 20 fraternities and sororities. Each year, the school begins the spring semester with the Winter Ball, a week of games and activities culminating in a semi-uniformed dance called the Snowball. Freshmen and sophomores are required to live on campus unless they live locally with a family member or guardian. Lake Michigan is one mile from campus, and students can ride Milwaukee County Transit System buses for free with a pass.

More than 25 academic centers and institutes are located on Marquette's campus, including the Center for Thermal Fluid Science and Energy Research and the National Sports Law Institute. The Les Aspin Center for Government is located on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and students can spend a semester studying and interning in the nation's capital. Notable Marquette alumni include New York Times columnist Gail Collins, Texas Instruments co-founder Patrick Eugene Haggerty, and actor Chris Farley, who has appeared on Saturday Night Live and Tommy Boy. (In that movie, Farley played Tommy Callahan, also a Marquette graduate.)