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Patrick Henry College
Purcellville, VA

Founded by pioneering homeschooling activists, this Christian liberal arts college combines a serious core curriculum and high–level academics with mandatory internships to prepare students for their first jobs after graduation.

Christendom College
Front Royal, VA

One of the first of the “alternative” colleges founded to restore Catholic education in the wake of the great apostasy of the 1960s and 1970s, Christendom has a healthy proportion of homeschooled students in search of a serious education in the liberal arts. Many pursue activism in D.C. after graduation on behalf of pro–family causes.

Biola University
Los Angeles, CA

One of the most “artsy” and creative Evangelical Christian schools in the U.S., Biola takes advantage of its proximity to the film industry to direct faith–filled students into the arts. The school manages its relationship to Babylon through a rigorous code of student conduct that recalls the book of Leviticus in its specificity.

Thomas Aquinas College
Santa Paula, CA

This devoutly Thomistic college has many home–schoolers among its rather devout, intellectually earnest students–who work through the canon of classic Western works in Socratic seminars, not lectures. Students emerge confident, able to defend their ideas, and fervent about the liberal arts.

St. John’s College
Annapolis, MD, and Santa Fe, NM

The best–known secular Great Books college, St. John’s offers a high–minded environment for bright, articulate students who are ready for serious quantities of reading. All classes are discussion–based seminars, which demands that students learn to articulate their ideas, rather than passively absorb information.

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