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| campus = Urban – | free_label = Fight song | free = "''The White and the Blue''" | colors = Blue and White | athletics = NCAA Division I – Big East | sports = 14 varsity sports teams (6 men's and 8 women's) | nickname = Bluejays | mascot = Billy the Bluejay | affiliations = AJCU ACCU NAICU | website = | logo = 200px }} Creighton University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1878, the school is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. The university is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Creighton is the largest private religious university in Nebraska.〔(Largest Colleges in Nebraska (NE) ). College Stats.org. Retrieved on 2011-04-23.〕 Sitting on a 〔("Public Safety – Campus Security Report Fall 2009" ). Creighton.edu.〕 campus just outside Omaha's downtown business district, the university enrolls about 8,236 graduate and undergraduate students. == History == The university was founded as ''Creighton College'' on September 2, 1878 through a gift from Mary Lucretia Creighton, who stipulated in her will that a school be established in memory of her husband, prominent Omaha businessman Edward Creighton. Edward's brother, John A. Creighton, is credited with fostering and sustaining the university's early growth and endowment. In 1958, the college split into a prep school and the present-day ''Creighton University''.〔(History of Creighton Prep )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Creighton University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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