Shimer College
In 1853 in Mount Carroll, Illinois, Shimer’s founders, Frances Wood Shimer and Cinderella Gregory, had a vision of education which was far ahead of its time. They admitted students on the basis of capability, rather than on the applicant’s previous educational background. Their mission was to develop in each student a well-rounded knowledge and personal competence.

Skidmore College
Recently named by Newsweek as one of America’s “25 New Ivies,” Skidmore is a highly selective liberal arts college with a reputation for its creative approaches to just about everything. With its relatively small size and student-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, the College is a close-knit academic community. Skidmore is known for its faculty of teacher-scholars devoted to the instruction and mentoring of…

Southern California Institute of Architecture
SCI-Arc was founded in 1972 as a radical alternative to the conventional system of architectural education. Architect and educator Ray Kappe—formerly the chair of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona, and director of SCI-Arc until 1987—leased an industrial building in Santa Monica, and, with a group of six faculty members and 75 students, started what they initially called the "New School," based on th…

Southwestern University
Southwestern students are better prepared with the right kind of communication skills and the ability to think critically in ways that other schools might not measure up to. Southwestern students get a rich variety of experiences that teach them how to not only absorb new information and process it, but be open to perspectives that are much different than their own and that's going to put them…

St. Olaf College
St. Olaf offers programs that provide students with the skills to succeed in valuable careers. But our main purpose — rooted in the depth of a major course of study and the breadth of a general education — is to help students become effective citizens in an increasingly complicated world. Founded in 1874 by Norwegian Lutheran immigrants, St. Olaf is a nationally ranked liberal arts college of t…