St. John's College

"One of the oldest colleges in the US, the campus is beautiful. We'll worth a stroll through as it backs up to College Creek."

"Like this place. Peaceful and calm."

"I have followed the Liberal Arts Graduate program and the 1,5 year that it took for me to finish the program where amazing. If you want to learn: to read, improve your listening and speaking skills, meet people from all sorts of backgrounds and, for me as a Dutch foreigner, learn about the United States through excellent discussions instead of heavy biased Dutch news, St John College is the place to go. St John college is also a good place for having deep and excellent converstation's about almost every intellectual topic. Except for daily changing hipster fashion, St John college students are in for having great discussions about almost every topic. (for me personally, one of the most awesome aspects of the program are the students and tutors that where open for discusions and where in for other conversations. Unfortuantly many students see ST John college as an individual challenge and do not exploit this opportunity. The most important thing though, is the reading list. If you really want to read great books which can really help you to develop as a person, St John college is your program. The reading list is the most valuable aspect of the program and should also be your main consideration in deciding to go or not to go to this college. You start with texts from Plato, Euclid and finish with persons like Nietzsche and Heidegger. If you want to enrich yourself with many perspectives, and get a basic impression of the development of the western intellectual philosophical tradition. This is the place to go!!!! There are many liberal arts schools that are better for political activism. If you are interested in that, please look for a different liberal arts school and stay away as far as possible form this beautiful place. The only negative thing I have to say is that certain students are to heavenly ideological driven. However this is not the fault of tutors and the program though but the fault of certain students who should not have started this program in the first place. I, as a Dutch student, came to the United States only for ST John College. Although there are certain sounds that the program should be changed to include more authors that fit twenty-first century thinking. My personal advice is to keep doing what St John college is doing. Changing the program to more modern standards will destroy the admosphere and competitive advantage of ST John College compared with other liberal arts schools."

"One of the single best investments of my life. Worth every penny, every second, every moment of turbulent thought and enlightening conversation with some of the most interesting people in the world. After earning my MA here (went to William and Mary as undergrad), I continued into a successful career in the advertising industry, and then followed that by pursuing more advanced study at the University of Oxford."

"Greatest school on earth! Hobbes and Aristotle will teach you to shake off pusillanimity and small-souledness forever. Stop paying for a shrink and use the money for Graduate Institute tuition instead!"