Thomas Aquinas College One of the "Best in the West"
According to Princeton Review.com
(August 23, 2006)
Santa Paula, California---Princeton Review.com has just released
the results of its 2007 student opinion survey and Thomas Aquinas
College was designated one of the "Best of the West" liberal
arts colleges.
Relying to a great extent on student input and assessment of their
own colleges and universities, the Princeton Review.com divided
the country into four distinct regions where 644 colleges, including
Thomas Aquinas College, stood out as academically excellent institutions
of higher education. Thomas Aquinas College was surveyed in a region
that included fifteen Western states.
Students who participated in the survey were guaranteed anonymity
and encouraged to give honest and sincere evaluations of their schools.
A Thomas Aquinas College senior endorsed the College by stating,
"This is a Catholic college and it's proud of its Catholic
identity." Another student, who walked away from more than
three years of mechanical engineering training at another university
after reading Thomas Aquinas College's founding document, gave this
testimonial. "The typical student at Thomas Aquinas College
has a zeal for seeking the truth."
The Princeton Review.com has given a "student's-eye"
view of the academic and spiritual life of Thomas Aquinas College
and should prove helpful to students and parents alike who are considering
a college where faith and reason are templates to the truth.
ABOUT THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE
Thomas Aquinas College is a four-year Catholic liberal arts college
exclusively devoted to the study of the Great Books, using only
the Socratic method of dialogue in all of its classes. There are
no text books, no lectures and no electives. Instead, the College
offers an entirely integrated curriculum using the original texts
of the great thinkers who shaped Western Civilization. These authors
include St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine, Aristotle, Plato, Shakespeare,
Euclid, Dante, Galileo, Descartes, our American Founding Fathers,
Adam Smith, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton to name a few.
Thomas Aquinas College graduates consistently excel in the many
world-class institutions where they pursue graduate degrees in such
disciplines as law, medicine, business, theology and education.
Graduates have distinguished themselves in these fields serving
as headmasters, business owners, lawyers, priests, doctors, military
service men and women, educators and college presidents.
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