ABOUT US

St. John's College is a private liberal arts college with dual campuses in Annapolis, Maryland, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is known for its Great Books curriculum. St. John's has no religious affiliation.

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St. John's claims to be one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States[5][3] as the successor institution of King William's School, a preparatory school founded in 1696; the current institution received a collegiate charter in 1784.[6] In 1937, St. John's adopted a Great Bookscurriculum based on discussion of works from the Western canon of philosophical, religious, historical, mathematical, scientific, and literary works.

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The college grants only one bachelor's degree, a degree in Liberal Arts. Two master's degrees are available through the college's graduate institute: one in Liberal Arts, which is a modified version of the undergraduate curriculum (differing mostly in that the graduate students are not restricted to a set sequence of courses), and one in Eastern Classics, which applies most of the features of the undergraduate curriculum (seminars, preceptorials, language study and a set sequence of courses) to a list of classic works from India, China and Japan. The Master of Arts in Eastern Classics is only available at the Santa Fe campus.