About Saint Ambrose University

St. Ambrose University is a private Roman Catholic academic circles in Davenport, Iowa. It is affiliated behind the Diocese of Davenport.

Davenport is a city in and the county chair of Scott County, Iowa, United States. It is located along the Mississippi River on the eastern be stuffy to of the state, and is the largest of the Quad Cities, a metropolitan Place with a population estimate of 382,630 and a CSA population of 474,226; it is the 90th largest CSA in the nation. Davenport was founded on May 14, 1836 by Antoine Le Claire and was named for his buddy George Davenport, a former English sailor who served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, served as a supplier Fort Armstrong, worked as a fur trader as soon as the American Fur Company, and was appointed a quartermaster bearing in mind the rank of colonel during the Black Hawk War. According to the 2010 census, the city had a population of 99,685 (making it Iowa’s third-largest city). The city appealed this figure, arguing that the Census Bureau missed a section of residents, and that its sum population was more than 100,000. The Census Bureau estimated Davenport’s 2019 population to be 101,590.

Located approximately halfway between Chicago and Des Moines, Davenport is on the be stifling to of Iowa across the river from Illinois. The city is prone to frequent flooding due to its location upon the Mississippi River. There are two main universities: St. Ambrose University and Palmer College of Chiropractic, where the first chiropractic accommodation took place. Several annual music festivals accept place in Davenport, including the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival, the Mississippi Valley Fair, and the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival. An internationally known 7-mile (11 km) foot race, called the Bix 7, is manage during the festival. The city has a Class A minor-league baseball team, the Quad Cities River Bandits. Davenport has 50 help parks and facilities, as capably as higher than 20 miles (32 km) of recreational paths for biking or walking.

Three interstates, 80, 74 and 280, and two major United States Highways encouragement the city. Davenport has seen steady population mass since its incorporation. National economic difficulties in the 1980s resulted in job and population losses. The Quad Cities was ranked as the most affordable metropolitan area in 2010 by Forbes magazine. In 2007, Davenport, along with neighboring Rock Island, won the City Livability Award in the small-city category from the U.S. Conference of Mayors. In 2012, Davenport, and the Quad Cities Metropolitan Area, was ranked in the midst of the fastest-growing areas in the nation in the addition of high-tech jobs. Notable natives of the city have included jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Susan Glaspell, former National Football League running incite Roger Craig, UFC Welterweight Champion Pat Miletich, IBF Middleweight and WBA Super Middleweight boxing champion Michael Nunn, Time Magazine’s 2006 Person of the Year Blake Scott, and former two grow old WWE Champion and WWE Universal Champion Seth Rollins.