Liberal education fosters the intellectual virtues appropriate
to self-governing men and women. Prudence, breadth of judgment,
fairmindedness, understanding, wisdom: these qualities perfect
us as humans and merit our strongest efforts to acquire whether
or not they bring "practical" rewards in their train.
Yet the verbal, 
mathematical,
and logical skills by which liberally educated men and women
are distinguished do indeed assist them in their daily lives
and greatly enhance the success of the work they take up in
their occupations and careers.
All graduates of Thomas Aquinas College have undertaken the
same academic program - none have "specialized"
in their undergraduate years. The following partial list of
graduate and professional schools into which they have been
accepted should be seen, therefore, as an indication of the
utility liberal education has been to them. Nearly half of
the College's graduates continue their education beyond the
baccalaureate degree. They are now successfully pursuing virtually
every walk of life.
Field of Study
|
College or University
|
Archeology:
|
University of Chicago |
Architecture:
|
University of
Colorado
University of Miami
University of Notre Dame
University of Washington |
Art History:
|
Emory University |
Avian Biology:
|
University of California,
Davis |
Biology:
|
University of California,
Los Angeles |
Business Administration:
|
Biola University
Pepperdine University
University of Notre Dame
University of Washington
|
Business Management:
|
University of California,
Los Angeles
University of Chicago |
Classics:
|
Boston College
Bryn Mawr College
Cornell University
University of Chicago
University of Dallas
Villanova University
|
Communications:
|
Marquette University
University of Notre Dame |
Computer Science:
|
California State
University, Northridge
University of San Diego
University of Wisconsin |
Economics:
|
Claremont Graduate University
London School of Economics and Political Science |
Engineering:
|
Georgia Institute of Technology |
English:
|
University of Notre Dame
University of California, Los Angeles |
Exegesis:
|
Pontificum Institutum Biblicum
de Urbe (The Biblicum), Rome |
Government:
|
Claremont Graduate School
|
History and Philosophy of Science:
|
Indiana University
University of Notre Dame
|
History of Science:
|
Indiana University
Oklahoma University
Princeton University
University of California, Davis
University of Toronto
University of Wisconsin |
International Affairs:
|
Columbia University School
of International Affairs |
Law:
|
Ave Maria School of Law
Duke University
George Mason University
Harvard University
John Marshall School of Law
Marquette University
Pepperdine University
St. John's University, New York
St. Louis University
Santa Clara University
Stanford University
Suffolk University
University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall)
University of California, Davis
University of California, Hastings College of Law
University of Chicago
University of Michigan
University of Missouri at Kansas City
University of Montana
University of Notre Dame
University of the Pacific
University of San Diego
University of San Francisco
University of Southern California
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Wyoming
Villanova University
Willamette University
William Mitchell College of Law
|
Literature:
|
University of Dallas |
Mathematics:
|
Brown University
Claremont Graduate University
Indiana University
State University of New York, Binghamton
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Massachusetts
University of Missouri, Kansas City
|
Medicine:
|
Creighton University School of Medicine
Georgetown University
Hahnemann University
Indiana University
Loyola University, Chicago
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
St. Louis University
University of California, Davis
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Nevada
Washington University, St. Louis
University of Washington
|
Music:
|
California State University, Los Angeles
|
Nursing:
|
California State University, Los Angeles
University of Nevada |
Philosophy:
|
Boston College
Catholic University of America
Claremont Graduate University
The Dominican School of Philosophy, Theology, Berkeley
International Theological Institute, Austria
Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
Princeton University
University of Dallas
University of Notre Dame (Medieval Institute)
|
Physics:
|
University of
Wisconsin
Washington State University |
Physiology:
|
Boston University
School of Medicine |
Political Science:
|
Catholic University of America
University of Chicago
University of Dallas
University of Notre Dame
|
Psychology:
|
Indiana University |
Public Relations:
|
University of Notre Dame |
Social Science:
|
University of
Chicago |
Theology:
|
Aver Maria University
Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University
Pontifica Universita S. Tommaso D'Aquino
(The Angelicum), Rome
University of Toronto
The Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology, Graduate
Theological Union, Berkeley
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