Since its inception as a liberal arts college in 1950, Bellarmine University has served as a beacon of intellectual curiosity and rigorous academic inquiry in Louisville and throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky. As part of its Catholic identity and through its close relationship with the teachings of Thomas Merton, Bellarmine has also maintained a commitment to serve student, faculty, staff and community populations who represent a vast array of demographic characteristics and worldviews. Thus, in both an academic and a missionary sense, Bellarmine University has a long-standing dedication to promoting diversity.
Student Diversity
Diversity—a core element of Bellarmine's Mission—informs various student initiatives on-campus, including recruitment, advising and career discernment, the design of general education requirements and the development of academic program curricula.
The Office of Identity and Inclusion (OII), part of the division of Student Affairs, coordinates efforts to help students and other constituents consider diversity in all its forms around Bellarmine's campus. OII's Diversity website is a multi-disciplinary effort that highlights opportunities for students, staff and faculty to expand and deepen their awareness of diversity.
Demographic Reports
To improve knowledge and wisdom about diversity trends on-campus, the Office of Institutional Research & Effectiveness monitors enrollment, retention and graduation trends among full- and part-time students at both the undergraduate and graduate academic level.
Enrollment Reports
The Census Enrollment report published by IR&E, illustrates Bellarmine's diversity across several demographic categories: ethnicity-race, sex, first-generation status and recipients of Federal Pell Grants.
Census Enrollment Report
Retention Reports
Undergraduate retention rates are reported as a percentage of first-time, full-time student cohort students who returned to Bellarmine in fall of their second, third, and fourth years. A midyear report includes retention data through spring of each cohort's first, second, third, and fourth years.
Undergraduate Retention Report
Graduation Reports
Graduation rates are reported by percentage of freshman students completing an undergraduate bachelor's degree in four years, five years and six years.
Graduation Rate Report