College of Mount St. Joseph

Mount St. Joseph University delivers high-quality academics and personalized attention from faculty and staff dedicated to your success.

Mount St. Joseph University delivers high-quality academics, hands-on experiential learning and personalized attention from faculty and staffdedicated to your success. We consistently live a culture of ethics and service in everything we do.

A Mount education is based on an interdisciplinary liberal arts and professional curricula emphasizing values, integrity and social responsibility.

Our highly interdisciplinary, liberal arts curriculum challenges students to think outside their major and connect diverse subject matter. A robust offering of majors, double majors and minors prepares you for a successful future.

The Mount is dedicated to you, our students, in delivering hands-on experiential learning needed to build confidence and future professional success. Nearly one-third of students who participate in cooperative education (co-op) accept full-time employment with their co-op employers.

Our 11:1 student-to-faculty ratio keeps our focus on you. Small classes give you the chance to work one-on-one with faculty members to develop your unique strengths.

Our friendly, knowledgeable staff offers a broad range of resources for your well-rounded personal development: academic, wellness, career. Your experience will help enrich your mind, body and soul.

The leadership at the University helps to foster a close-knit campus community that makes it easy to find resources and connect with other students.

Since the Mount's founding in 1920 by the Sisters of Charity, we have made serving the needs of our students and the community our core mission. As a nationally recognized institution, we continue to live a culture of ethics and service in everything we do.

Mount St. Joseph University, established by the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, opened its doors to the first 20 students in 1920 as the first Catholic university for women in Southwestern Ohio.

With the growth of student enrollment, the Sisters of Charity made plans to develop property at the intersection of Delhi and Neeb roads, and opened a new campus in the fall of 1962. In 1986, the University was formally declared coeducational. The University, though incorporated under a Board of Trustees in 1972, remains a sponsored ministry of the Sisters of Charity.

Today the University serves a diverse coeducational student population of undergraduate and graduate students.

The Mount lives a culture of ethics and service to others. Sure, building confidence academically and professionally is essential, but so is giving back to others – here and around the world.

The Mount prepares you as a critical thinker, skilled communicator and effective professional, and yet we’ve long recognized that there’s more to life than career. It’s also about being productive citizens and ethical leaders ready, willing and able to contribute to the greater good.

Inspiring you to lead a meaningful life; that’s what we mean when we say, it’s about something much bigger than any of us.Mount St. Joseph University is a Catholic academic community grounded in the spiritual values and vision of its founders, the Sisters of Charity. The University educates its students through interdisciplinary liberal arts and professional curricula emphasizing values, integrity and social responsibility.

The Mount is an emerging force in ethical leadership development, integrating curricular and co-curricular learning about ethics and responsible leadership into a Mount education at a time when our world sorely needs it. Distinctive, comprehensive and highly relevant undergraduate experience designed to raise student awareness and conscientiousness as well as ability and commitment to act.

The Center for Ethical Leadership (CEL) reflects Mount St. Joseph University’s commitment to ethics, values, service and the integration of life and learning. The values and history of the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati provide an ideal model for engaged and ethical leadership practice. The CEL develops and promotes that model by serving as a Hub—interfacing with the campus and the community—to leverage the Mount story, mission and resources to advance ethical leadership and innovative socially responsible practices designed to maintain and promote healthy, vibrant organizations and communities that are great places for individuals to grow and flourish. The CEL offers programming to local business and community organizations, encourages the interaction between local business and community organizations and the campus community and provides support to enhance the integration of ethical leadership into curricular and co-curricular programs that shape a distinctively Mount student life experience.

The Office of Diversity & Inclusion is committed to building a campus environment that values and respects every person, regardless of gender, age, race, cultural background, religion, nationality or beliefs. In keeping with Mount St. Joseph University's mission to "embrace diversity of cultures and beliefs," we seek to ensure a positive, supportive climate in which all feel welcome.

Many of the events and services we provide not only benefit the Mount's culturally diverse students, but the entire Mount community, by promoting diversity awareness, enriching the educational experience and enhancing the quality of student life.

At Mount St. Joseph University, we define success one student at a time. The Career Center will help you plan your career. We work to help you develop the heart and mind to serve others.