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.
PROFESSIONAL:
Semester 1
Marketing, Business, Decorum
Semester 2
Work, Investing, AI
SUMMER 1
Essential Reading
PERSONAL
The Human Person
CULTURAL
Fine Arts
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
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
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
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
Semester 3
Nature and Person, Sacred Doctrine, American Civilization
Semester 4
Ethics, Natural Science with Laboratory
Semester 5
Metaphysics
Semester 6
None
Semester 7
None
Semester 8
Moral Theology