The Institute at Ave Maria University unites the University’s Catholic, liberal arts core curriculum with personal and professional formation, and the skills, experiences, and networks AMU graduates will need to effectively renew culture as they live out their vocations and careers.
Thomas S. Monaghan started Domino’s Pizza in 1960. By 1985, he was opening 3 new locations per day and growing it into a billion-dollar business. In 1987, Tom founded Legatus, an international organization of Catholic businessmen and women, which now has more than 5,000 members. Then, he founded Ave Maria Institute in 1998 in Michigan and it became a college.
By 2003, Ave Maria College moved to Florida and became a university at the heart of the new town of Ave Maria, also founded by Tom. Ave Maria University currently offers rigorous academics across 35 majors, 34 minors, and 5 graduate programs in education, business, and theology—educating more than 1,400 students.
Ave Maria University carries on Tom’s entrepreneurial legacy rooted in a liberal arts core curriculum and cultivating relevant and dynamic majors and innovative programs—such as the Institute at Ave Maria University—all within a vibrantly Catholic community.
Ave Maria University is forming Catholic leaders and renewing culture, one student at a time.
The Institute at Ave Maria University, an inspiration of AMU’s fourth president, Mark Middendorf, unites the Catholic, liberal arts core curriculum with personal and professional formation.
Students in The Institute acquire the skills, experiences, and networks they need to effectively renew culture as they live out their vocations and careers. It is the liberal arts applied.
