Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

Private · Moderately Selective · MN

School data & stats

TypePrivate

LocationMN · Midwest

SettingRural

Undergrads1,073

Student:faculty18:1

Outcomes

4-yr grad rate60.5%

6-yr grad rate66%

Drop-out rate25.4%

Study abroad—

Cost

In-state tuition$45k

Out-of-state tuition$45k

Application fee—

Community

Racial diversity42%

Gender diversity55.4%

International1.8%

IdentityRoman Catholic

Overview

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota is a Catholic university in the Lasallian tradition, with its undergraduate residential campus set among the bluffs of Winona, Minnesota, along the Mississippi River, and large separate graduate and adult-education programs based in the Twin Cities. The two halves of the university, a traditional undergraduate college and a large adult and graduate operation, operate somewhat independently.

Academics

Education and business are long-established undergraduate strengths, consistent with the university's Lasallian teaching mission, and the university also carries a strong performing-arts tradition for a school of its size. Twin Cities graduate programs extend the university's reach well beyond the Winona undergraduate population.

Campus & student life

The Winona bluff-top setting gives the undergraduate campus a scenic, close-knit residential feel distinct from the university's much larger and more dispersed Twin Cities operations.

Worth knowing

Prospective undergraduates should be clear that the Winona campus, not the Twin Cities locations, is where the traditional residential college experience happens; the Twin Cities sites serve primarily graduate and adult learners.

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Admissions

Acceptance rate92.8%

Enrolled mid-50%—

Test policynot used

Rec letters0

Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)

AdmissionRolling

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