D'Youville University is a private Catholic university in Buffalo, New York, founded in 1908 by the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart as the first college chartered to award baccalaureate degrees to women in Western New York. Named for Saint Marguerite d'Youville, Canada's first native-born saint, the school became coeducational in 1971 and officially transitioned from 'D'Youville College' to 'D'Youville University' in 2023. Today D'Youville enrolls approximately 3,000 students (about 1,260 undergraduates plus a large professional/graduate cohort) on a compact urban campus on Buffalo's West Side, overlooking the Niagara River and walking distance from downtown Buffalo and the Canadian border. Academically, D'Youville is almost entirely a health-professions university. Its programs are organized across four schools — the Patricia H. Garman School of Nursing, the School of Pharmacy, the School of Health Professions (housing chiropractic, exercise & sports studies, health administration, nutrition, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and physician assistant), and the School of Arts, Sciences, and Education — and it has recently added a College of Osteopathic Medicine awarding the DO degree. The Pharm.D. program offers both three-year in-person and online pathways and has been nationally recognized for residency match rates; the Garman School of Nursing offers BSN, accelerated BSN, RN-to-BSN, MS, FNP, PMHNP, and DNP tracks; and the graduate health-professions programs (DPT, OT, PA) are among Western New York's most competitive. For international students, D'Youville's draws are its heavy health-professions orientation (highly employable degrees in pharmacy, nursing, and allied health), Buffalo's exceptionally low cost of living, and proximity to the Canadian border — Toronto is about 90 minutes away, making D'Youville particularly popular with Canadian and international applicants seeking a US health-professions degree. Admission is test-optional for undergraduates, and the university uses rolling admissions with fast decisions (often within 24 hours of a complete application). The Saints compete in NCAA Division II, and campus life is anchored by community-service traditions rooted in the university's Catholic, Vincentian heritage.
Visa, OPT, H-1B alumni outcomes, and acceptance rates by country — sourced from FOIA, USCIS H-1B Hub, and DHS SEVIS.
Test Optional — You can submit scores if they help your case, but they're not required.
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Domestic
$36,377
/yr
Out-of-State / Intl
$33,560 – $36,377
/yr
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Home to D'Youville's flagship ACPE-accredited PharmD program (three-year, in-person and online pathways) and the BS in Pharmaceutical Sciences.
CCNE-accredited nursing school offering BSN, RN-to-BSN, Accelerated BSN, and graduate pathways (MS, FNP, PMHNP, DNP).
Houses D'Youville's allied-health portfolio: chiropractic, exercise & sports studies, health professions education, health administration & public health, nutrition & dietetics, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and physician assistant programs.
D'Youville's newest college, awarding the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree. One of the only DO colleges in Western New York.
Houses undergraduate liberal-arts majors, teacher education, and pre-professional pathways that feed into D'Youville's graduate health-professions programs.
3 years
Three-year ACPE-accredited PharmD with both in-person and online pathways; strong residency match record. Popular with international applicants pursuing US pharmacy licensure.
4 years
CCNE-accredited nursing program with traditional BSN, Accelerated BSN, and RN-to-BSN tracks; clinical placements across Western New York health systems.
3 years
CAPTE-accredited DPT with strong clinical-education network across Buffalo and Western New York hospitals and rehab facilities.
Where alumni go after graduation — top industries, grad-school continuation, and the qualitative outcomes story.
Sticker price (annual, out-of-state): $34,940
Net-cost estimate is US-resident-only — international applicants are typically excluded from need-based aid at most schools and should treat the sticker price as the planning baseline.
