University of Mary

Since the University of Mary's beginnings in the mid-1950s, its history has been one of rapid expansion. Founded in 1955 by The Benedictine Sisters of Annunciation Monastery as a two-year school, the former Mary College became a four-year degree-granting institution in 1959. It achieved university status -- becoming the University of Mary -- in 1986. The University of Mary is the only priv…