Saint Louis University

Saint Louis University is a private Jesuit research university with campuses in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, and Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1818 by Louis William Valentine DuBourg, it is the oldest university west of the Mississippi River and the second-oldest Jesuit university in the United States. The university is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.In the 2022–2023 academic year, SLU had an enrollment of 13,546 students. The student body included 8,437 undergraduate students and 5,109 graduate students that represent all 50 states and 82 countries. The university is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".For more than 50 years, the university has maintained a campus in Madrid, Spain. The Madrid campus was the first freestanding campus operated by an American university in Europe and the first American institution to be recognized by Spain's higher education authority as an official foreign university.