Saint Mary's University of Minnesota Winona Campus Winona, MN

For more than a century, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota has served as one of the state’s finest institutions of higher learning, earning recognition as one of the top regional universities in the Midwest. While the Saint Mary’s system primarily serves graduate students (who make up more than two-thirds of the overall student body), the main campus in Winona is geared toward the roughly 1,200 undergrads enrolled.

The Saint Mary’s campus is located in the small city of Winona in the Southeast corner of Minnesota, near the banks of the Mississippi River and the Iowa and Wisconsin state lines. The campus is positioned on the west side of town, a few minutes removed from the city center. The surrounding neighborhoods offer numerous options for apartments, condos, and houses, though few will be within walking distance.

Downtown features a charming collective of restaurants, specialty shops, coffeehouses, and nightlife hotspots catering to the local college crowd. When you’re looking to get out of town, Minneapolis is only about two hours away and Milwaukee and Chicago are easily within weekend trip distance.