Avila University is a private Catholic university in Kansas City, Missouri. Wikipedia says the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet founded it in 1916 as the College of Saint Teresa, a two-year college for women. It became a four-year college in the early 1940s, was renamed Avila College in 1961, admitted men in 1969, began graduate programs in 1978, and became Avila University in July 2002. Its roughly 50-acre campus in southern Kansas City, near the Missouri-Kansas border, includes 13 buildings. Enrollment was 2,768 in fall 2024, including 1,331 undergraduates and 1,437 graduate students. Its teams, the Eagles, compete in the NAIA's Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference. The school has more than 40 student organizations but no fraternities or sororities.
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Avila offers a standard GPA plus test route and a test-optional route based on core GPA, with rolling admission.
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11901 Wornall Rd, Kansas City, MO 64145, United States, Missouri
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