Marywood University
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![The Rotunda The Liberal Arts Center, completed in 1923, is crowned with one of the campus' most distinctive architectural features, the dome of the Rotunda. foreground, Memorial Commons](/Images/godic/202501/26/Rotundaexterior5634.jpg")
![The Memorial Arch, built in 1902, marks the entrance to the original Motherhouse, which was the location of St. Mary's Seminary.](/Images/godic/202501/26/Maryarch5635.jpg")
![Marywood University Arboretum](/Images/godic/202501/26/Marywood_University_Arboretum_-_0335635.jpg")
Marywood University is a co-educational, Catholic liberal arts university located on a 115-acre (0.47 km) campus in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA within the Diocese of Scranton. Established in 1915 by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Marywood currently enrolls more than 3,400 students in a variety of undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs. The university has a national arboretum with more than 100 types of trees and shrubs. Marywood's Catholic identity coupled with its mission to educate students to "live responsibility in an interdependent world" encourages students to be socially responsible agents of change.