Campus Highlights

Anderson Student Center

The Anderson Student Center is our main gathering spot. It has multiple eateries, a coffee shop, even a bowling alley. It’s also home to Tommie Central, your resource for everything from transportation, to meeting rooms, to camping equipment.

Learn more about Anderson Student Center

Students sitting in residence hall lounge

Residence Halls

Our new and newly renovated residence halls are where you’ll sleep, study and make new connections with your LLC.

Explore Residence Halls

Iversen Center for Faith

The Iversen Center for Faith is another beautiful place to visit, with Muslim prayer spaces and all-faith meditation rooms.

It provides members of the university community with a place to gather where faith can be celebrated and explored.

Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas

The Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas is a core element of the St. Paul campus of St. Thomas. Together with the Iversen Center for Faith, this is the spiritual heart of our campus.

Students playing spikeball on lower quad

The Lower Quad

This is the heart of campus where there are always people, events and something to be a part of.

Anderson Athletic and Recreation Complex

Whether you swim, lift, dribble or run, there's always something that makes your heart race at the Anderson Athletic and Recreation Complex.

01/06

Points of Interest: St. Thomas Arches

In addition to your daily commute around campus, you'll walk through these arches to start your life at St. Thomas as part of Welcome Days, and complete your time at the University by walking back through the arches as part of Commencement celebrations.

02/06

Points of Interest: John Ireland Statue

Visit the statue honoring our founder John Ireland, the first Archbishop of St. Paul.

Students creating t-shirts in create[space]

03/06

Points of Interest: create[space]

Our unique create[space] is filled with tools that inspire and enable your creativity, with 3D printers, vinyl cutters, sewing machines, Legos and more. It’s located in Anderson Student Center.

04/06

Points of Interest: Green Spaces and The Grotto

The Biology Department maintains two greenhouses and a medicinal garden on the St. Paul campus, along with a Pollinator Path aimed to attract pollinators while providing some beauty to a walkway.

Take a short, serene walk on the grotto walking path, located on the south end of the St. Paul campus.

Tommie media student working in TV studio

05/06

Points of Interest: News, Radio and TV Studios

The Emerging Media department supports the students who run Tommie Media, the student-run news organization, KUST Internet Radio, and an on-campus TV studio.

Students posing for photo in Observatory

06/06

Points of Interest: Physics Observatory

The University of St. Thomas Physics Department Observatory exists to facilitate an understanding of and appreciation for the process of modern scientific investigation and how critical thinking uncovers nature’s mysteries.

Campus Flyover

See the beauty of our university first-hand through an aerial tour of our campuses in St. Paul and Minneapolis.

Our Minnesota Home

See the sights and learn the facts about St. Thomas by going on a virtual campus tour with two of our students.

Featured Academic Buildings

O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library

The O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library is one of four libraries that serve our St. Paul and Minneapolis campuses, featuring group study rooms, online resources, interlibrary loans, and world-renowned special collections.

Engineering Labs & Design Center

With industry-leading equipment, the Machine shop, Wood shop, Electrical labs, and Civil labs within the Engineering Design Center have night and day access as well as talented staff to support your concepts and creations.

Nursing Center for Simulation

Nursing students use sophisticated simulation equipment and strategies to gain hands-on experience with assessing and managing scenarios they'll face as professional nurses.

Schoenecker Center

A state-of-the-art complex, the Schoenecker Center will house 3 academic areas (arts, engineering and sciences) and include a newsroom, science and engineering labs, a 250-seat choral rehearsal and performance space, an instrumental rehearsal space and storage, a café and community spaces.

John Roach Center for Liberal Arts

The building to one side of the Arches, JRC is home for many of the liberal arts programs on campus, along with tutoring and writing support services available to all students.

McNeely Hall

The home of undergraduate business program, including multiple different concentrations.

O’Shaughnessy Education Center

OEC features our largest auditorium plus academic programs in communications, media, economics and foreign languages.

Opus Hall

Part of the Minneapolis campus, Opus Hall is where we offer classes in Education and Psychology, and the home of the Charles Keffer Library.

St. Thomas Law School building in the fall

School of Law

Home to our School of Law and a cornerstone of our Minneapolis campus, this building is cool.