The University of Saint Mary (USM) is a private Catholic university in Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. It is sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, who established it in 1923 as Saint Mary College. Though it was originally a school for women, the school is now coeducational. The mother house of the order is also on the premises. At one time the nuns' property had its own post office, Xavier, Kansas, the name honoring St. Francis Xavier.
The university offers 26 bachelor's degree programs and six master's degree programs. Traditional, evening, degree completion, and online classes are available.
Saint Mary has around 1,200 students enrolled across two campuses.[4] It has a full-time faculty of 31, who teach 26 undergraduate programs and six masters programs. The school has been named a "Best Value College" by the Princeton Review.[5] Students at St. Mary come from 33 different states, and it has international students from Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Colombia, Finland and Canada. The average age of residential full-time students is 22 and the average full-time undergraduate is 27. The student body is 47% male and 53% female. On average, USM receives 427 applications per year, and 233 students are accepted.