Quotations about our alumni

Charles Rice
Professor
Notre Dame Law School

"The Thomas Aquinas graduates, in my opinion, are very well equipped by their education for law study and for careers in the legal profession. They have a broad background in terms of knowledge, of course. But, more important, they know how to think. They are at ease with a broad range of subjects and, I am convinced, their ability to reason is incomparably better than what I have seen in even the superior students from any other colleges of which I know . . .. Thomas Aquinas graduates are the best, period, paragraph."

Warren Murray
Professeur agrégé,
Université Laval
Quebec

"There is the judgment of many professors here, myself in the forefront, that your students are among the best prepared for graduate work in philosophy of any we have received. They have put to shame some other students from American colleges by their familiarity with original source material, their dialectical skills, and their orderly work habits."

Charles Young
Associate Professor,
Claremont Graduate School

"All of these students have been intellectually serious, eager to learn, and willing to work hard. They have received, in addition, first-rate intellectual training. In the first place, they are among the most widely-read students I have taught. What is more, they have learned how to reflect effectively on what they read, and they are unusual among students in my experience in their ability to state and defend positions in discussion and in writing. Finally the students have all impressed me with their intellectual integrity. They care very much about what they believe, but they care as much about believing what the evidence and arguments available to them best support, and they are therefore tolerant of, and indeed eager to hear alternative views and reasonable objections to what they think. In sum, they are a joy to have in class."

Ralph McInerny
Professor of Medieval Studies
University of Notre Dame

"Thomas Aquinas College is the best liberal arts college in the country - the best students, the best tutors, the best program."

G.B. Tennyson
Professor of English
UCLA

"It is much easier to learn the names of scholarly journals than it is to acquire the ability to read carefully, closely, thoughtfully. It is that ability that I have found very pronounced among graduates of Thomas Aquinas College: they can read, they can think, they can relate ideas to a broad philosophic context, and they take the life of the mind very seriously."