Xavier University (pron-en?ze?vi.?r respellZAYvee-?r) is a co-educational Jesuit university in the United States located in Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio), Ohio. The University is the sixth-oldest Catholic university in the nation. It has an undergraduate enrollment of about 4,000 students and graduate enrollment of 2,600 students. Xavier is primarily an undergraduate, liberal arts institution. Graduate programs include occupational therapy, education, counseling, nursing, English (English language), theology, psychology, business, and many more. The Xavier University MBA Program is nationally ranked, according to the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and is currently ranked 14th for part-time programs by U.S. News and World Report.

Xaviers mission statement states that it is "dedicated to engaging and forming students intellectually, morally and spiritually, with rigor and compassion, toward lives of solidarity, service, and success."