Alumni Benefits and Services 

Our wide variety of graduate degree programs offer options for you to grow your career or advance in your field of study. We also offer non-credit classes, mini master's programs, workshops, and seminars to meet continuing education (CLE) requirements, help you accelerate your career, gain new skills and continue the journey of lifelong learning.

• Graduate Programs: Our 55+ graduate degree programs offer options for you to grow your career or advance in your field of study. 
• Continuing and Non-Credit Learning
• Selim Center: The Selim Center for Lifelong Learning engages adult learners in high quality educational opportunities that promote growth in mind, body and spirit. 
• Finding Forward Speaker Series: Finding Forward is an evolution of St. Thomas’ long-standing First Friday speaker series, which began in 1991 and consistently featured outstanding leaders, changemakers and philanthropists. This new series aims to build upon that strong foundation, while delivering expanded topics to a wider audience.

Whether you are looking to advance within your current organization, grow your skills, pivot to another industry, or polish your resume or interviewing skills, our Career Development Center is here to support you through: 

• Career coaching: Get help with resumes, career transitions, job searching, interview prep and salary negotiation 
• Mission Collaborative Career Discernment Sessions: A program to help you figure out exactly what you want next from your career and develop a plan to get there, regardless of your age, background, or industry.​
• Handshake: A go-to source for jobs, internships, employer connections, peer-to-peer insights, and career fair and event information.
• On-Campus Career Fairs 
• Workshops 
• Mentorship 
• Networking 

Connection is what keeps our community strong. We offer many ways for you to stay engaged with the Tommie Network and encourage you to come back to campus, share your expertise with current students and join us for special events and opportunities tailored to keep you connected to the university.

• Interest and identity-based affinity groups: Space for alumni who have something additional in common and want to foster their shared interest. New members are welcome!
• St. Thomas Connect: Connect with those who share your background, interests, or other affiliations. Access exlusive job referrals. Pay it forward and mentor those who are navigating their next step in life. Think of it as LinkedIn where everyone is a 1st level connection.
• Events, including:
  • Homecoming
  • Alumni Christmas Luncheon
  • Orchestra Hall Christmas Concert
  • Tommie Tailgates
  • St. Thomas Day
  • Old Guard Reunion
  • Student performances
  • National events
  • and more!
• Athletics: Bring your family and friends to cheer for our D-1 Tommies!
• St. Thomas Newsroom and Magazine: Read about all the university news coming from the Tommie community.

St. Thomas lives its Catholic identity through its origins in the Catholic intellectual tradition and through service to the community by way of a rigorous, thoughtful approach to living out our faith in the modern world.

• Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas Masses:Join us in sharing the mystery of faith through our many prayer and worship opportunities.
• Mass Intention Request: Submit a mass intention, a special intention offered to God as prayers of intercession and thanksgiving in and through the Eucharist.
• Life Event Ministries: We're here to support you in life events, including weddings, funerals and memorials.
• Pray It Forward: We invite alumni and friends of St. Thomas to join us for 15-minutes on the third Wednesday of each month to pause, gather online and pray.

On campus, in workplaces and in communities, Tommies are advancing the common good, one interaction at a time. We invite you to share your gifts of time, talent, ties, testimony and treasure in ways that match your busy schedule and are most meaningful to you.

• Alumni Ambassadors: Share your expertise, enthusiasm and real-world knowledge with students seeking higher education while encouraging them to attend the University of St. Thomas. Alumni Ambassadors deepen community connections while broadening networks and experience.
• Volunteer Opportunities: Volunteers provide invaluable service to the university and greater community as they share their time and talent.
• Make a Gift: Students continue to face immediate and pressing financial needs. With your help, they can stay in school and access the whole-person St. Thomas experience.

The Tommie Network is rich with resources to support your professional and personal journey. Visit these links to learn more about how fellow alumni can help you.

• Lawyer Search: Do you need a lawyer? Hire a St. Thomas law school graduate! Visit the Lawyer Search free online alumni directory to access client-centered attorneys in a variety of practice areas.
• Tommie Restaurants: Many entrepreneurial Tommie alumni are making the world a more delicious place. Check out our list of Tommie-owned restaurants and try a new place today.