The Catholic University of America is located in Washington D.C. and is popular for serving as the Roman Catholic Church's national university. What is more surprising to note is that it is the single higher education center which was founded by the bishops of US Roman Catholic. This university started to provide education for the undergraduates in 1904, which was built in the year 1887 to serve as a research and graduate center.

Catholic University of America at wiki

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The Catholic University of America is the true blend of excellent academic records and rich Catholic tradition. Established as the research center, the University boasts off amazing undergraduate programs. Also, this university provides great educational opportunities to the non-traditional and high school students to continue education either in full or part time courses.

The CUA @ official website

http://www.cua.edu/

The University also combines resources of liberal arts college and a big research university. All the 12 schools of this university provide graduate degrees as well as the professional ones. The undergraduate degrees are provided by the seven schools including arts and sciences, nursing, music, engineering, Metropolitan College, philosophy and architecture and planning.

Catholic University of America information

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The University also excels to provide cooperative learning environment to the students by giving them personalized attention. This very attention is the watchword that attracts more and more students to the Catholic University each year.

As of now, the co-educational and private campus of the CUA has about 3470 and 3240 undergraduates and graduates respectively from the 97 countries and 50 states who are enrolled in its 12 schools for taking up further education in social service, canon law, religious studies, library theology and more.