Located in a quiet residential neighborhood just five miles from the center of metropolitan Louisville. Site of nationally renowned Actors' Theatre of Louisville and diverse cultural activities. Bellarmine enrolls about 2,300 students of whom 1,250 are full time undergraduate students from 28 states and 25 countries. 30 percent of Bellarmine students live on campus. U.S. News and World Reports recently ranked Bellarmine among the top 15 regional universities in the South.
Bellarmine students attend graduate school at a rate twice the national average.
A vibrant campus life is complemented by recreational facilities, such as indoor and outdoor tennis courts, sand volley ball courts, athletic fields, fitness facilities, and a nine-hole par 3 golf course. Louisville is noted for its cultural and educational richness. It is the site of the nationally renowned Actors' Theatre of Louisville, the Kentucky Center for the Arts, the Kentucky Opera, the Louisville Orchestra, the J.B. Speed Art Museum, the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, two universities, a community college, two seminaries, and the Kentucky Derby Festival. Louisville is within a couple of hours of such major U.S. cities as Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Nashville and six hours or less from Atlanta, Chicago and St. Louis. As a small, private liberal arts university in the Catholic intellectual tradition, Bellarmine University offers its students 33 baccalaureate and 8 graduate degrees, a first-rate teaching faculty, individualized attention and a curriculum that generates a lifelong love of learning and a sense of community in a high tech environment.