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Liberal arts college

A liberal arts college is one with a primary emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts. A "liberal arts" institution can be defined as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional,...
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Grinnell College

Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, U.S. with a strong tradition of social activism. It was founded in 1846, when a group of pioneer New England Congregationalists established the Trustees of Iowa College. Grinnell...

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  • 1846

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Reed College

Reed College is a private, independent, liberal arts college located in southeast Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a four-year residential college with a campus located in Portland's residential Eastmoreland neighborhood, featuring...

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  • 1908

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  • Communism, Atheism, and Free Love

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Marlboro College

Marlboro College is a small, coeducational, alternative liberal-arts college in Marlboro, Vermont, USA. Marlboro College was founded in 1946 by Walter Hendricks for returning World War II veterans on Potash Hill in Marlboro, Vermont. The school's...

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  • 1946

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Roanoke College

Roanoke College is an independent, private, coeducational, four-year liberal-arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The college is located in Salem, Virginia, a suburban independent city adjacent to Roanoke,...

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  • 1842

Stetson University

Stetson University is a private, co-educational, liberal arts university located in DeLand, Florida, USA. Founded in 1883, it is the oldest private institution of higher education in the state of Florida. In 2009, the U.S. News and World Report's...

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  • 1883

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  • For God and Truth
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  • Pro Deo et Veritate

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Haverford College

Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. The college was founded in 1833 by area members of the Orthodox Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of...

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  • 1833

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  • Non Doctior Sed Meliore Doctrina Imbutus

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Simon's Rock College of Bard

Bard College at Simon's Rock, more commonly known as Simon's Rock and previously as Simon's Rock College of Bard (see below), is a residential four-year liberal arts college located in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The foremost of the many...

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  • 1964

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Hillsdale College

Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan is a co-educational, liberal arts college known for being the first American college to prohibit in its charter all discrimination based on race, religion, or sex; its refusal of government funding; and its...

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Carleton College

Carleton College is an independent non-sectarian, coeducational, liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, USA. The College currently enrolls 1,958 undergraduate students, and employs 198 full-time faculty members. Robert A. Oden is the current...

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  • Nov 14, 1866

Caldwell College

Caldwell College is a Catholic liberal arts college in Caldwell, New Jersey. Founded in 1939 by the Sisters of St. Dominic, the college is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, chartered by the State of New Jersey and...

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  • Aug 10, 1939

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The Evergreen State College

The Evergreen State College is an accredited public liberal arts college and is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges that is located in Olympia, Washington, USA. Founded in 1967, Evergreen was formed to be an experimental and non...

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  • 1967

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  • Omnia Extares

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Bellarmine University

Bellarmine University is an independent, Roman Catholic liberal-arts university in Louisville, Kentucky; it is the largest traditional, non-profit private university in the state. The institution opened in 1950 as Bellarmine College, established by...

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  • 1950

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New College of Florida

New College of Florida is a public liberal arts college located in Sarasota, Florida. Composed of 87 faculty and about 800 students, New College is known for its high academic standards, narrative evaluation system, and its focus on independent...

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  • 1960

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Grove City College

Grove City College is a Christian liberal arts college in Grove City, Pennsylvania, about sixty-five miles north of Pittsburgh. According to the College Bulletin, its stated three-fold mission is to provide an excellent education at an affordable...

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  • 1876

Guilford College

Guilford College is a small, private, four-year liberal arts college in Greensboro, North Carolina founded by the Religious Society of Friends (the Quakers). Founded in 1837 as the New Garden Boarding School, its name was changed to Guilford College...

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  • 1837

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Albion College

Albion College is a private liberal arts college located in Albion, Michigan. Related to the United Methodist Church, it was founded in 1835 and was the first private college in Michigan to have a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. It has a student...

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  • 1835

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  • Lux Fiat
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  • Light, let there be

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Asbury College

Asbury College is a Christian liberal arts institution located in Wilmore, Kentucky. Although it is a nondenominational school, the college's foundation stems from a Wesleyan-Holiness tradition. The school offers 50 majors across 17 departments....

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  • 1890

Bridgewater College

Bridgewater College, is a private, coeducational, four-year liberal-arts college historically affiliated with the Church of the Brethren. The college is located in Bridgewater, Virginia, a town in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States....

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  • 1880

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Wells College

Wells College is a private coeducational liberal arts college located in Aurora, Cayuga County, New York, on the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake. Historically an all-women's institution, Wells became a co-ed college in 2005. Wells College is located in...

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  • 1868

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Burlington College

Burlington College is a private liberal arts college located in Burlington, Vermont. The goals of the college are to engage the student body in activities promoting social and community involvement on a local and international scale, while also...

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  • 1972

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State University of New York at Morrisville

The State University of New York at Morrisville, also known as Morrisville State College or MSC, offers 22 bachelor degrees and a wide variety of associate degrees at two campuses in Central New York: Morrisville and Norwich. Programs are offered in...

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  • 1908

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Lafayette College

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  • 1826

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  • Veritas liberabit

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  • Leopards

Emory and Henry College

Emory & Henry College ("E&H;" or "the College") is a liberal arts college located in Emory, Virginia. The campus is situated in Washington County, Virginia, which is part of the mountain region of Southwest Virginia. Listed as one of 40 "Colleges...

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  • 1836

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Cornell College

Cornell College is a private liberal arts college in Mount Vernon, Iowa. Originally called the Iowa Conference Seminary, the school was founded in 1853 by Reverend Samuel M. Fellows. Four years later, in 1857, the name was changed to Cornell College...

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  • 1853

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  • Deus Et Humanitas
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  • God and Humanity

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Hamline University

Hamline University is a private university located in the Midway district of Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. The college was founded in 1854 and is the first university established in Minnesota. Named in honor of Leonidas Lent Hamline, the...

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  • 1854

Skidmore College

Skidmore College is a private, liberal arts college located in Saratoga Springs, New York, United States. The college currently enrolls approximately 2,500 students and offers B.A. and B.S. degrees in more than 60 areas of study. Skidmore received...

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  • 1903

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  • Creative Thought Matters

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Beloit College

Beloit College is a private coeducational liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin, USA. It is a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, and has an enrollment of roughly 1,300 undergraduate students. Beloit is the oldest college in...

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  • 1846

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Kentucky Wesleyan College

Kentucky Wesleyan College (KWC) is a private Methodist college in Owensboro, Kentucky. Kentucky Wesleyan College is known for its liberal arts programs. Fall 2007 enrollment was 956 students. Athletically, Kentucky Wesleyan College is a NCAA...

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  • 1858

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Hanover College

Hanover College is a private liberal arts college, located in Hanover, Indiana, near the banks of the Ohio River. The college is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). The college was founded in 1827 by the Rev. John Finley Crowe, making it...

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  • 1827

Warren Wilson College

Warren Wilson College is a small liberal arts college in the Swannanoa Valley, North Carolina just on the edge of Asheville, near U.S. Highway 70. It is known for its curriculum of work, academics, and service, called "the Triad." The Triad requires...

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  • 1894

Centre College

Centre College is a private, four-year liberal arts college located in Danville, Kentucky, USA, a community of about 16,000 in Boyle County, approximately 35 miles (56 km) south of Lexington, KY. Centre was founded by Presbyterian leaders in 1819....

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  • Doctrina Lux Mentis

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Jamestown College

Jamestown College is a private liberal arts college founded by the Presbyterian Church located in Jamestown, North Dakota. It has about 1,000 students enrolled today and has been co-educational from its founding. In 2007, Jamestown became the first...

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  • 1883

Randolph-Macon College

Randolph-Macon College is a private, co-educational liberal arts college located in Ashland, Virginia, near the capital city of Richmond. Founded in 1830, the school has an enrollment of over 1,200 students. The college offers bachelor's degrees in...

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  • 1830

Westmont College

Westmont College, founded in 1937, is an interdenominational Christian liberal arts college in Santa Barbara, California. Ruth Kerr, owner of the Kerr Mason Jar Company, established the school as the Bible Missionary Institute (1937), later renamed...

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  • Oct 29, 1937

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Roosevelt Academy

Roosevelt Academy is a small liberal arts college located in Middelburg in the Netherlands. It offers a residential setting and is an international honors college of Utrecht University. In 1575, William of Orange was about to found the first...

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  • 2004

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University of Saint Francis

The University of St. Francis is a Catholic, Franciscan institution, serving more than 4,300 students at locations throughout the nation. USF's main campus is located at 500 Wilcox Street in Joliet, Illinois. It is located about 35 miles southwest...

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  • 1920

University College Utrecht

University College Utrecht (UCU) is an international Honors College of Utrecht University (UU). UCU is a selective liberal arts, undergraduate college of 700 students within Utrecht University. Located between the two Utrecht University sites,...

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  • 1999

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Mount Olive College

Mount Olive College is a private liberal arts college located in Mount Olive, North Carolina. Mount Olive College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, The NC Association of Colleges and Universities, and the North...

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  • 1951

Franklin College

Franklin College is a private liberal arts college in Franklin, Indiana. It was founded in 1834 and was the first college in Indiana to admit women (1842). Franklin's athletic teams are known as the Grizzlies and participate in the Heartland...

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  • 1834

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Belmont Abbey College

Belmont Abbey College is a private liberal-arts Benedictine/Catholic college located in Belmont, North Carolina, 15 miles west of Charlotte. It was founded in 1876 as St. Mary's College by the Benedictine monks of Belmont Abbey. It was changed to...

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  • 1876

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University of Saint Francis

The University of Saint Francis is a liberal arts university located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, the university promotes Catholic and Franciscan values. The school currently enrolls over 1,800 undergraduate...

Wesley College, Delaware

Wesley College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Dover, the capital of Delaware. Wesley College was founded in 1873 as a preparatory school called Wilmington Conference Academy. It became a 2-year college in 1918 and was...

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  • 1873

Midway College

Midway College is an independent, liberal arts college with approximately 1,700 students, related by covenant to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) offering two and four-year degrees, located in Midway, Kentucky. Midway is the only women's...

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  • 1847

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Hong Kong Shue Yan College

Hong Kong Shue Yan University (HKSYU or SYU) (traditional Chinese: 香港樹仁大學), formerly Hong Kong Shue Yan College (traditional Chinese: 香港樹仁學院), is the first private liberal arts university in Hong Kong. It was founded in 1971. The university offers 4...

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  • 1971

Franklin College Switzerland

Franklin College Switzerland is a private, 4-year liberal arts college located in Lugano, Switzerland accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools in the United States and by the Swiss...

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  • 1969

Mount Saint Mary College

Mount Saint Mary College is a private, independent, coeducational, four-year liberal arts college, located in Newburgh, New York. Founded in 1960 by the Sisters of Saint Dominic, the college is committed to providing students of all faiths an...

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  • 1960

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Marymount College, Palos Verdes

Located along the picturesque coastline of Southern California in Palos Verdes, Marymount College’s top priority is the individual student’s experience. Our two-and four-year degree programs support and encourage students in reaching their academic,...

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  • 1932

Southern Catholic College

Southern Catholic College is a private, co-educational Roman Catholic four-year college located in Dawsonville, Georgia. It was founded in 2000 by Thomas J. Clements and the first classes were held in the fall of 2005. The college is located within...

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  • 2000

Sarah Lawrence College Art of Teaching Program

The Sarah Lawrence College Art of Teaching Program is a graduate division of Sarah Lawrence College that offers training in education in both degree-track and continuing education formats. One component of the program is the Empowering Teachers...

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  • 1989

Whitworth University

Whitworth University is a private Christian liberal arts college located in Spokane, Washington, that offers bachelor's and master's degrees in a variety of academic disciplines. It is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. The university, which...

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  • 1890

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Institute of Classical Studies

The Institute of Classical Studies is a national and international research Institute in the languages, literature, history, art, archaeology and philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. It is a member Institute of the University of London...

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  • 44

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Institute of English Studies

The Institute exists to facilitate advanced study and research in English Studies in the wider academic community, national and international, as well as within the University of London . It promotes these objects by providing for academic...

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Institute of Philosophy

The Institute of Philosophy is an Institute of the University of London's School of Advanced Study. Founded in 2005, the IP was made possible by a generous private donation and matching funding from the University of London.The Institute's aim is to...

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