About Bellarmine University

Bellarmine University (BU; /ˈbɛlərmɪn/ BEL-ər-min) is a private Catholic the academy in Louisville, Kentucky. It opened upon October 3, 1950, as Bellarmine College, established by Archbishop John A. Floersh of the Archdiocese of Louisville and named after the Cardinal Saint Robert Bellarmine. In 2000 the Board of Trustees misused the herald to Bellarmine University. The academic world is organized into seven colleges and schools and confers bachelor’s and master’s degrees in greater than 50 academic majors, along past five doctoral degrees; it is classified among “D/PU: Doctoral/Professional Universities.”

The academic circles has an enrollment of higher than 3,900 students upon its main 135-acre (0.55 km2) academic and residential campus in Louisville’s Belknap neighborhood. At its 2011 commencement, the literary graduated 482 undergraduate and graduate students, contributing to a total of 780 former students for the studious year, up from 700 the previous year.

Bellarmine offers a large number of extracurricular actions to its students, including athletics, honor societies, clubs and student organizations. Its energetic teams are known as the Knights. Bellarmine is a zealot of NCAA Division I and competes in the Atlantic Sun Conference, except in men’s lacrosse, which competes in the Southern Conference. Bellarmine’s men’s basketball team won the 2011 NCAA Men’s Division II Basketball Tournament, the first flexible national championship in college history. Alumni and former students have gone upon to prominent careers in government, law, business, science, medicine, education, sports, and entertainment.

Louisville (/ˈluːivɪl/ (listen), US: /ˈluːəvəl/ (listen) LOO-ə-vəl, locally /ˈlʊvəl/ (listen)) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border.

Named after King Louis XVI of France, Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachians. With straightforward Falls of the Ohio as the lonely major obstruction to river traffic in the midst of the upper Ohio River and the Gulf of Mexico, the unity first grew as a portage site. It was the founding city of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which grew into a 6,000-mile (9,700 km) system across 13 states.

Today, the city is known as the house of boxer Muhammad Ali, the Kentucky Derby, KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken), the University of Louisville and its Cardinals, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and three of Kentucky’s six Fortune 500 companies: Humana, Kindred Healthcare, and Yum! Brands. Muhammad Ali International Airport, Louisville’s main poster airport, hosts UPS’s worldwide hub.

Since 2003, Louisville’s borders have been the same as those of Jefferson County, after a city-county merger. The official name of this consolidated city-county admin is the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, abbreviated to Louisville Metro. Despite the merger and renaming, the term “Jefferson County” continues to be used in some contexts in hint to Louisville Metro, particularly including the incorporated cities external the “balance” which make stirring Louisville proper. The city’s total consolidated population as of the 2019 census estimate was 766,757. However, the balance sum of 617,638 excludes extra incorporated places and semiautonomous towns within the county and is the population listed in most sources and national rankings.

The Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) includes Louisville-Jefferson County and 12 surrounding counties, seven in Kentucky and five in Southern Indiana. As of 2019, the MSA had a population of 1,265,108, ranking 46th nationally.