Brescia University is a private Roman Catholic college in Owensboro, Kentucky.
It was founded as a junior college for women and is now a coeducational institution, offering undergraduate and master's programs.
Coeducational extension courses were started at Owensboro and eventually grew into its own campus.
[2] It changed its name, in 1998, to become Brescia University, with the addition of Master's degree programs in Management and Curriculum and Instruction.
The institution is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the River States Conference (RSC; formerly known as the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (KIAC) until after the 2015–16 school year), since the 1984–85 academic year.