About The College of Saint Scholastica

The College of St. Scholastica (CSS) is a private Benedictine university in Duluth, Minnesota. Founded in 1912 by a group of pioneering Benedictine Sisters, today St. Scholastica educates in credit to 4,000 students annually and has graduated greater than 29,000 alumni. The educational offers a modern arts education and is located upon 186 wooded acres overlooking Lake Superior.

Duluth /dəˈluːθ/ (listen) də-LOOTH is a harbor city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county chair of St. Louis County. Duluth has a population of 85,618, making it Minnesota’s fourth-largest city and the center of Minnesota’s second largest metropolitan area, with a population of 278,799. Duluth forms a metropolitan area with adjoining Superior, Wisconsin; together, they are called the Twin Ports. The city is named for Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, the area’s first known European explorer.

Situated on the north shore of Lake Superior at the westernmost lessening of the Great Lakes, Duluth is the largest metropolitan area (and second-largest city) on the lake and is accessible to the Atlantic Ocean 2,300 miles (3,700 km) away via the Great Lakes Waterway and St. Lawrence Seaway. The Port of Duluth is the world’s farthest inland harbor accessible to oceangoing ships, and by far and wide the largest and busiest port upon the Great Lakes. The port is ranked along with the summit 20 ports in the United States by tonnage. Commodities shipped from the Port of Duluth enlarge coal, iron ore, grain, limestone, cement, salt, wood pulp, steel coil, and wind turbine components.

A tourist destination for the Midwest, Duluth features the United States’ only all-freshwater aquarium, the Great Lakes Aquarium; the Aerial Lift Bridge, which is adjacent to Canal Park and spans the Duluth Ship Canal into the Duluth–Superior harbor; and Minnesota Point (known locally as Park Point), the world’s longest freshwater baymouth bar, spanning 6 miles (10 km). The city is after that the starting point for vehicle trips touring the North Shore of Lake Superior toward Ontario, Canada.