Dominican University (DU) is a coeducational, comprehensive, Catholic institution of higher education and research in River Forest, Illinois. Affiliated with the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters, it offers bachelor's and master's degrees and certificate programs. Dominican offers more than 50 majors in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and eighteen degrees in four graduate programs: library and information science, business, education, and social work. Dominican is well-known for its offerings of undergraduate programs in the arts and sciences as well as several graduate programs in practice-oriented disciplines such as business and education. US News and World Report ranks Dominican in the top tier of Midwestern master's-level universities. The school began as St. Clara Academy in 1848, chartered by Fr.Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli, O.P. in Sinsinawa, Wisconsin. It became a college in 1901 and moved to River Forest, Illinois, taking the name Rosary College in 1922 while under the leadership of Mother Samuel Coughlin of the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters.