It offers bachelor's and master's degrees, certificate programs, and a PhD in information studies.

Dominican University offers more than 50 majors in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 20 programs in five graduate academic divisions.

Trinity High School was founded as the preparatory department of the college before moving to its own campus nearby in 1926 and is still run by the order.

Sister Gregory Duffy famously advised the playwrights to form the Catholic nun background of the lead character, Maria.

[8] The university is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission to grant baccalaureate and master's degrees.

Also, Dominican University's offers the Doctor of Philosophy in Library and Information Science (PhD).

[citation needed] In the fall of 2014, the university introduced a new Bachelor of Science in nursing degree program.

[11] Dominican University is located on a 30-acre (12.14 ha) wooded campus in suburban River Forest, just 10 miles (16 km) from downtown Chicago.

In the years that followed, the Province of St. Albert the Great (which counts Fenwick High School and St. Vincent Ferrer Parish among its many ministries) operated the Priory and it continued to be home to generations of Dominicans Friars.

By June 2012, the remaining friars had relocated, and Dominican renovated the building to house undergraduate and graduate students.

[16] The preschool that was part of the Goedert Center closed after the university withdrew support for it, blindsiding parents and staff.