We embody in our curriculum convictions about what life's important questions are and what kind of knowledge is worthwhile. We pass on to our students the conviction that the ethical has priority over the technical and that people have priority over things. Personal Commitment to Teaching Each professor at the University is committed to teaching. This emphasis on teaching as the primary goal of our faculty carries with it unique benefits to UST students. At UST the average class size is 18 students and each class is taught by professors, not teaching assistants.
Professors are accessible to students with and without scheduled appointments.
Faculty know each of their students by their first names. A Student-Centered Environment University of St. Thomas extends to each student the full benefits of a university that is small enough to give individual attention and support, yet is comprehensive enough to provide students with the academic skills needed to achieve career goals. These benefits begin at recruitment and continue through to graduation and beyond. Because the goal of our liberal arts commitment is to educate the whole person, UST considers the whole person when evaluating students for admission, and not just the individual's standardized test scores. Approximately 60 percent of regularly accepted freshmen placed in the top 25 percent of their high school graduating class and earned an SAT composite average of 1118 and an ACT composite of 24.