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Students describe Brescia as 鈥渁 Catholic liberal arts university with a small class room size and hometown feel鈥� with a focus on 鈥渉elping students become all that they can be in a small class atmosphere where learning, morality, and servant leadership are encouraged.鈥� The 鈥渋ntimate鈥� environment is 鈥渨onderful for students who want individual attention鈥� and provides students with 鈥渢he chance to succeed academically, socially, and spiritually.鈥� Students gave high marks to the professorial staff, reporting that they 鈥渉ave your best interests at heart,鈥� 鈥渁re always willing to help you whenever you need their help,鈥� and are 鈥渇ocused on making successful people out of the students that come through Brescia.鈥� Students did complain that the 鈥渄egree offerings are fairly narrow.鈥� However, most students felt that the education they received at Brescia left them 鈥渁 little more aware, a lot brighter, and a whole lot more prepared for life.鈥�

With a little over 450 students, Brescia is definitely on the small side. However, students say that despite it鈥檚 size, it 鈥渞espects all of its students鈥� and gives them 鈥渁 chance to experience other cultures.鈥� Although 81% of the student body is reported as Caucasian, students say that 鈥渢he school makes a real effort to foster ethnic and cultural diversity on campus鈥� and that 鈥渢here are a LOT of foreign students.鈥� 鈥淚 frequently interact with students from other cultures, especially Asia and South America,鈥� said one student. Brescia is a Catholic university, and 鈥渢here is a modest, and open-minded emphasis on Catholic faith with a subtle, and gentle evangelistic tone.鈥� However, students say that 鈥渢here are many students who are not Catholic鈥� including who 鈥渃omfortably engage in the social and intellectual life of the school.鈥� As might be expected at a religious school, the campus has a more traditional ideological bent, with students warning that 鈥渟ome more liberally minded students might find the student body a little on the conservative side.鈥� Nevertheless, independent of their religion or ideology, 鈥渆veryone has the same goal: to learn.鈥�

Located in Owensboro, KY, Brescia is not known for its big-city lifestyle. However, 鈥淪tudent Government and other campus organizations sponsor numerous social activities to compensate for the small amount of fun offered by the city,鈥� such as 鈥渇ree ice skating, midnight bowling, dances, and parties.鈥� Students say that they have 鈥渙pportunities to see traveling Broadway shows at local community venues at steep discounts and free admission to any local philharmonic orchestral concerts,鈥� and there are even opportunities for travel abroad (which, of course, is 鈥渆ducationally focused and credits earned are applied to student's transcripts鈥�). Another large part of life at Brescia is the sports program, which has been described as 鈥渢he most important thing here.鈥� Says one student, 鈥渢here is no one who doesn't pay attention to sports.鈥�