About Benedictine University

Benedictine University is a private Roman Catholic academic circles in Lisle, Illinois. It was founded in 1887 as St. Procopius College by the Benedictine monks of St. Procopius Abbey in the Pilsen community on the West Side of Chicago. The institution has retained a close relationship taking into account the Benedictine Order, which bears the state of St. Benedict (480–543 A.D.), the acknowledged dad of western monasticism.

The the academy resides within the Chicago metropolitan area, and is located near two national research facilities, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The university’s location in the East-West Tollway corridor provides various internship and employment opportunities for students. It has a branch campus, Benedictine University, in Mesa, Arizona.

Lisle (/ˈlaɪəl/ LY-əl) is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. The population was 22,390 at the 2010 census, and in 2019 the population was recorded to be 23,270. It is portion of the Chicago metropolitan Place and the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor. It is as well as the headquarters of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region III.

In July 2007, Lisle was ranked No. 20 in Money magazine’s list of “100 Best Places to Live” and No. 17 upon their 2009 list of the “Best Places for the Rich and Single.”