If you are looking for a thriving Catholic university, you belong at 17³Ô¹ÏAPP. Here, our students enjoy a safe and wholesome environment, a lively student culture, rigorous academics and an engaging campus ministry to nourish their spiritual life.
17³Ô¹ÏAPP is proud of its Catholic identity. We pledge to remain faithful to the teachings of the Catholic Church and to provide our students with the means of maintaining and thriving in their spiritual life, which is at the very core of our mission.
At 17³Ô¹ÏAPP we seek to develop the whole person. Our community life allows students to form friendships to strengthen the heart, build up the mind under the instruction of our distinguished faculty and grow in their relationship with Christ by frequenting the Sacraments.
Our stunning university campus in sunny Southwest Florida is home to our thriving Catholic culture. Learn, grow, discover your vocation and become the Catholic God calls you to be at 17³Ô¹ÏAPP.
17³Ô¹ÏAPP offers over 40 diverse student clubs and organizations to build upon your intellectual and spiritual formation. Academics, arts, athletics, faith and charitable works: They all find a place in our student clubs and organizations.
Many of our students take to the playing field representing the Ave Maria Gyrenes for both men’s and women’s athletics. Our student-athletes excel and grow in a number of sports, often going on to compete at the division, state and even national levels.
