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Paul Grendler has authored a history of Jesuit schools and universities from 1548 to 1773. In it, he notes that the Jesuits had established over 700 colleges and universities across Europe by 1749, with another hundred in the rest of the world, but in the aftermath of the Jesuit suppressions of the 18th and 19th centuries, all these schools ...
The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) is a consortium of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities and three theological centers in the United States, Canada, and Belize committed to advancing academic excellence by promoting and coordinating collaborative activities, sharing resources, and advocating and representing the work of Jesuit higher education at the national and ...
It is affiliated with the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States and is a member of the Jesuit Global Network of Schools. Based in Washington, D.C., JSN serves 55,000 students in 91 Jesuit schools [1] throughout Canada and the United States, and in Belize and the Federated States of Micronesia.
Jesuits have founded and/or managed a number of institutions, the first of which was Georgetown Preparatory School, established in 1789. The second oldest is St. Louis University High School, which was founded in 1818. Jesuit secondary schools in the U.S. include (listed by state):
Jesuit college in Daugavpils (1630–1811, with interruption 1656–1669), initially a residence until 1761, now Daugavpils fortress; college church destroyed during World War II; Jesuit school in Izvalta (1635–1820), from 1817 a college, now Izvalta Church
The Jesuit schools played an important part in winning back to Catholicism a number of European countries which had for a time been predominantly Protestant, notably Poland and Lithuania. Today, Jesuit colleges and universities are located in over one hundred nations around the world.
Jesuit high schools in the United States (5 C, 65 P, 1 F) Z. Jesuit secondary schools in Zimbabwe (5 P) This page was last edited on 9 June 2021, at 11:05 (UTC). Text ...
One hundred years after the order's founding, the Jesuits were running 444 schools. By 1739, they were running 669 schools. [2] The many schools taken over or started by the Society in its first decades all needed plans (rationes). In addition, an increasing number of young men were entering the Society in need of the educational background ...