Villanova College is a private, Roman Catholic school for boys located in Coorparoo, a southern suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

It was established in 1948 by six Irish priests, led by Ben O'Donnell, who was from the Order of Saint Augustine in the suburb of Hamilton.

[citation needed] In 1954, due to a lack of prospects for growth in Hamilton, the college moved to its present site at Coorparoo.

After his death, the house and the remaining 9 acres of land were sold 1925 to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart who established College Whinstanes, which opened as a junior boys boarding school.

[citation needed] In 1948, archbishop James Duhig welcomed Ben O'Donnell with five other Irish Augustinians to Australia, and invited them to start a school in Brisbane.

Langlands became the Good Samaritan Convent of Saint Scholastica until 1953, when Villanova College moved from Whinstanes to the Coorparoo property.

During this period, the college saw additional co-curricular facilities including a swimming pool on campus and sporting fields at Tingalpa.

During the 1970s/80s the college saw the foundation of the student council as well as the leadership role of all the boys in the senior class which led to the abolition of the prefect system.

The sports played by the association are rugby union, soccer, Australian Football League, cricket, basketball, volleyball, tennis, swimming, chess, Water Polo, athletics and cross country.

[citation needed] On 27 December 2016, an eight-metre-high section of brick wall collapsed in the senior school's Veritas building.

[16] On 27 September 2017 the Cor Unum Centre, located in Villanova Park, was destroyed after a fire engulfed the center, causing irreversible damage to the facility and the grandstand connected to it.

[citation needed] On 24 June 2010 Michael Ambrose Endicott, a former priest at the school, appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court and pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent treatment of a child.

[18][19] On 17 April 2019 Endicott was convicted of three counts of indecent treatment with a child after it was alleged by another former student that between 1975 and 1981, he was photographed naked on three separate occasions.

[21] The conviction was later overturned in Endicott's favor, as at the time, Queensland law did not consider taking nude photographs of a child to be indecent dealing.

[24] Arts Politics Sport Media and entertainment Law Villanova's brother school is St. Augustine's College, Brookvale in Sydney.