About Benedictine College

Benedictine College is a private Benedictine radical arts educational in Atchison, Kansas. It was founded in 1971 by the mix of St. Benedict’s College (founded 1858) for men and Mount St. Scholastica College (founded 1923) for women. It is located on bluffs overlooking the Missouri River, northwest of Kansas City, Missouri. Benedictine is one of a number of U.S. Benedictine colleges and is sponsored by St. Benedict’s Abbey and Mount St. Scholastica Monastery. The abbey has a current population of 53 monks, while the Mount monastery numbers 147 community members. The speculative has built its core values in the region of four “pillars” — Catholic, Benedictine, Liberal Arts, Residential — which retain the Benedictine College mission to educate men and women in a community of faith and scholarship.

Atchison is a city and county chair of Atchison County, Kansas, United States, along the Missouri River. As of the 2010 census, its population was 11,021. The city is named in tribute of US Senator David Rice Atchison from Missouri and was the indigenous eastern terminus of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Atchison was the birthplace of the aviator Amelia Earhart, and the Amelia Earhart Festival is held annually in July. Atchison is after that the home of Benedictine College, a Catholic protester arts college.