MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY

private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Milwaukee, Wis., U.S. It is affiliated with the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic church. It offers degree programs at the bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional levels. Marquette comprises 12 schools, colleges, and programs, including a school of law and a physical therapy program. The School of Dentistry is the only school of its kind in Wisconsin. From 1965 the university has operated a study centre at the University of Madrid in Spain. The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art was opened in 1984. Total enrollment at Marquette is about 11,000. Although the funding for a Jesuit school in Milwaukee was secured by the mid-19th century, Marquette College was not established until 1881; it began as a liberal arts college for men. It was named for the 17th-century French Jesuit missionary-explorer Jacques Marquette. The School of Law has been active since 1892. The name was changed to Marquette University in 1907, when it subsumed the colleges of dentistry, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy of Milwaukee Medical College. In 1967 the medical school separated from Marquette and, in 1970, became the Medical College of Wisconsin. Female students were first admitted in 1909.