Liberal Arts in the USA

In the United States there are over 200 Catholic Liberal Arts colleges and universities teaching hundreds of thousands of students. Campion is the first in Australia.

The small liberal arts colleges enrol anywhere from fewer than 1,000 students to several thousand. The largest Catholic institution in the United States has 24,000 students. They are usually dedicated primarily to the undergraduate study of the traditional arts and sciences disciplines: humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

Strictly liberal arts colleges are often quite old and are usually private schools (meaning they're supported by tuition fees, private donations, and grants). Many of these colleges were traditionally single-sex (all-men or all-women), but that's only true these days in a handful of cases, usually exclusively women's colleges. Sometimes these schools were founded with a religious affiliation such as the Catholic colleges in the US, but the overwhelming majority of them don't take this into account anymore in terms of admissions or day-to-day student life.

These colleges are usually highly rated institutions because they stress small classes, individual attention for their students and a close relationship between the faculty and students. Many of them also generally have stringent admissions standards. Among these schools are:

• Elms College
• Thomas Aquinas College
• Swarthmore
• Christendom
• Niagara University
• Franciscan College in Steubenville