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The INSTITUTE

The Institute at Ave Maria University is a next-generation education forming high-potential students  into highly competent persons and high performers in both their personal lives and professional fields.

The modern workplace is evolving rapidly, while trust in religious, financial, civil, and educational institutions is diminishing. Moreover, higher education often takes an either-or approach, emphasizing practical skills at the expense of human formation or honing intellectual and spiritual development to the neglect of marketable professional skills.

Ave Maria University has taken a both-and approach, uniting intellectual, spiritual, personal, and professional development, as well as priming students for success.

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SCHOLAR Program

EXPLORE: CORE SKILLS
Year 1

PROFESSIONAL:

Semester 1

Marketing, Business, Decorum

Semester 2

Work, Investing, AI

SUMMER 1

Essential Reading

PERSONAL

The Human Person

CULTURAL

Fine Arts

EXPLORE: CORE SKILLS
Year 2

PROFESSIONAL:

Semester 3

Leadership, Sales, Project Management

Semester 4

Internship Acquisition 1, Career Preparation, Communication

Summer 2

Internship with sponsoring company or sourced from Fellow.

PERSONAL

The Relational Person

CULTURAL

Performing Arts

Discover: Elective Skills
Year 3

PROFESSIONAL:

Semester 5

Strategy, Skills Specialization 1, Skills Specialization 2

Semester 6

Internship Acquisition 2, Skills Specialization 3, Skills Specialization 4

Summer 3

Internship with Sponsor company or sourced from Fellow

PERSONAL

The Collaborative Person

CULTURAL

Literary Arts

Discover: Elective Skills
Year 4

PROFESSIONAL:

Semester 7

Capstone Preparation, Service Project, Skills Specialization 5

Semester 8

Recruitment, Skills Specialization 6, Capstone Presentation

SUMMER 4

Launch into career/grad school and vocation upon graduation

PERSONAL

The Vocational Person

CULTURAL

Applied and Folk Arts

Core Curriculum

Freshman year

Semester 1

Math, Western Civilization I, Rhetoric and Poetics I, Foreign or Classical Language I

Semester 2

Western Civilization II, Rhetoric and Poetics II, Foreign or Classical language II or Natural Science with Laboratory, Sacred Scripture

Sophomore year

Semester 3

Nature and Person, Sacred Doctrine, American Civilization

Semester 4

Ethics, Natural Science with Laboratory

Junior year

Semester 5

Metaphysics

Semester 6

None

Senior year

Semester 7

None

Semester 8

Moral Theology

4
Years
200
MEMBERS
20
+ disciplines