>>Location: Belmont, NC--10 minutes from Charlotte, NC
>>Founded date: 1876
>>Affiliation: Catholic Benedictine
>>Enrollment: 1330 (includes Traditional and Adult Degree Program students)
>>Student/faculty ratio is 16:1
>>Class size average: 17 students
>>Students from 20 different countries
>>The average winter temperature ranges from 31-50 degrees F
>>The average summer temperature ranges from 69-88 degrees F
Has your search led you here?If you are searching for a superior education, a welcoming home, excellent scholarships, challenging athletics, and a place where teachers are committed to your success, you have found them all. If you are seeking a place where you can grow mind, body and spirit, this is that place. You have found it. Right here.
We are ranked one of the top comprehensive liberal arts and professional studies colleges in the South by U.S. News and World Report and celebrate excellence and virtue steeped in our 129 year Catholic college, Catholic, Benedictine heritage. We are home to students from over 28 states and 20 countries and welcome everyone, from any background or tradition, committed to this vision of excellence and virtue. We welcome you to visit our North Carolina College, here in Belmont, only minutes from Charlotte.
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