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About Bellarmine University

Bellarmine University is an independent, Roman Catholic liberal-arts university in Louisville, which is the county seat of Jefferson County and the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, having a population estimated at a number of more than 721 000 inhabitants, during the 2009 census. Besides being home to Bellarmine University, Louisville is best known for the Kentucky Derby, the widely watched first race of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.

Bellarmine University was established in 1950, first starting as Bellarmine College, by the Archdiocese of Louisville and named after the Catholic Saint Robert Bellarmine. The institution's name was changed in 2000 to Bellarmine University, by the Board of Trustees. The university has an enrollment of more than 2000 undergraduate and over 500 graduate students, and offers more than 50 different degree tracks in both undergraduate and graduate programs, through 7 schools, among which there are: W. Fielding Rubel School of Business, Donna and Allan Lansing School of Nursing & Health Sciences and Bellarmine College.

Athletics

The university's athletic teams are known as the Knights, who compete in NCAA Division II, in the Great Lakes Valley Conference, in various sports, for both men and women, including in nmen's lacrosse, in which they compete in the ECAC Lacrosse League, being the only NCAA Division I team in Kentucky. Their distinctive colors are scarlet and silver.

Notable Alumni

Among the most resonant names, on the list of notable alumni from Bellarmine University, there are: John Y. Brown, III - former Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Chad Hall - television actor, Susan M. Ivey - Reynolds American CEO, former CEO at Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Shawn James Seymour - founder and member of the band Lullatone, Michael D. Thieneman - retired Executive Vice President of Whirlpool Corporation and Tom Thomas - President and COO of GXS, Inc., former Chief Information Officer at 3Com, Palm, Inc., and Dell Computer, among others.