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University of St. Thomas
The University of St. Thomas, founded in 1885 by the Archbishop of St. Paul, is the largest private university in Minnesota, and its Opus College of Business has built one of the strongest regional reputations for business education in the Twin Cities, drawing on close ties to Minnesota's concentration of major corporate headquarters. The university's Catholic mission and its urban St. Paul campus, combined with a satellite Minneapolis campus housing its law school, give St. Thomas students access to professional networking across the Twin Cities' business and legal communities while maintaining the university's explicitly faith-based educational mission. St. Thomas's engineering program, one of the newer additions to its academic offerings, has grown quickly since its founding in the early 2000s, reflecting the university's broader effort to expand beyond its traditional strengths in business and the liberal arts into technical and applied science fields. The university's combination of a strong regional business school reputation, a genuine Catholic institutional identity, and deep integration into the Twin Cities' corporate community has made St. Thomas a consistent choice for Minnesota students specifically seeking a private, faith-based university with direct business career connections.
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St. Olaf College
St. Olaf College, founded in 1874 by Norwegian Lutheran immigrants, maintains one of the strongest undergraduate music programs of any liberal arts college in the country, anchored by the St. Olaf Choir, whose annual Christmas Festival concert has been broadcast nationally on public television for decades. The college's continued affiliation with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America reflects its Norwegian immigrant founding, and St. Olaf's Norwegian-American heritage remains visible across campus, including in its Scandinavian studies program and its historic Norwegian-influenced architecture. St. Olaf's science programs, particularly chemistry and biology, send a high proportion of graduates on to medical school and doctoral programs relative to the college's size, reflecting a strong pre-professional science track alongside its equally strong music and humanities offerings. The college's location directly across town from rival Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, has fostered a friendly but genuine athletic and academic rivalry between the two schools, and St. Olaf's combination of a nationally regarded music program and strong science preparation has made it a distinctive choice among Midwestern liberal arts colleges.
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