Last school year, Cabrini had an enrollment of 1,186 undergraduate students and 430 graduate students. Villanova's deal with Cabrini is the latest shift in the local higher education landscape.

Villanova, home to about 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students in the suburbs of Philadelphia, is the nation’s premier Catholic university of the Augustinian order.

For the second time in less than a week, Villanova University was the victim of a false shooter report on Sunday.