St. John's College PO Box 2800 Annapolis, Maryland 21404 Phone: (410) 263-2371 Email: admissions@sjca.edu

The College:
St. John's College believes that the way to a liberal education lies through a direct and sustained confrontation with the books in which the greatest minds of our civilization have expressed themselves, and through rigorous exercise in translation, mathematical demonstration, music analysis, and laboratory science. To that end, the College offers a four-year, nonelective program in which students read, discuss, and write about the seminal works that have shaped the world in which we live. With a faculty-student ratio of 1 to 8, class size ranges from a handful in tutorials to 18 or 20 in seminars and laboratories, and the entire student body for one weekly lecture. All classes are discussion classes, so that the students participate directly and actively in their own education. Final examinations are oral and individual. Students' tutors, as members of the faculty are called, meet with them twice a year in conferences to evaluate their intellectual performance in their presence and with their help.

The College is well aware that physical activities, artistic expression and light-hearted recreation are necessary complements to an intellectual life and is committed to providing the facilities, funds and support needed to make them available. Such activites in Annapolis are sponsored both by the Student Polity and various special interest groups on campus. The 36-acre eastern campus is located in the heart of historic Annapolis, which is the capital of Maryland and also a seaport town close to Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. Nestled at 7300 feet above sea level in the Sangre de Christo Mountains, the 250-acre Santa Fe campus offers both spectacular scenery and the cultural attractions of the Southwest.

Degrees Offered:
Bachelor of Arts

Academic Programs:
Liberal Arts, Music, Philosophy, Political Science/Politics, Theology

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