Guide Names Thomas Aquinas College a “Best College for ENTPs”

CollegeMatchUp.net, a website that helps high school students choose a college based on their Myers–Briggs personality types, has ranked Thomas Aquinas College among the country’s Best Colleges for ENTPs.

According to College Match Up, people who fall into the “ENTP” personality category (shorthand for Extroverted Intuition, Introverted Thinking, Extroverted Feeling, and Introverted Sensing), “delight in walking a mile in people’s shoes so they can fully understand their position.” This trait allows ENTPs — also called “debaters” — to “see problems from many angles and choose the best possible solution for most any given situation,” and makes them “great governors, judges, statesmen and group leaders who are capable of reaching compromises that stay loyal to all parties involved in a decision-making process.”

As such, College Match Up.com concludes, ENTPs are a natural fit for Thomas Aquinas College, where all classes are conducted via the Discussion Method. “They will find Thomas Aquinas welcomes their inquiring mind with open arms,” the author observes.

In choosing the 30 schools for its “ENTP” list, College Match Up focused on three criteria: the uniqueness of an institution’s educational mission, an emphasis on the liberal arts, and a low student-faculty ratio. By all three measures, the College achieved top marks:

Reaching toward these common goals of truth, goodness, and beauty to engender a classical, values-based education earns Thomas Aquinas College a perfect score for unique or alternative mission. Thomas Aquinas College also earns a perfect score for its number one (and only) major being in the Liberal Arts, a constraint that ENTP will use to fashion meaningful, interdisciplinary connections through amiable argumentation with students and faculty. The college’s student body also offers a tight student-faculty ratio of 1:11, which means ENTP is sure to get their fill of heated and productive discussion between themselves, their peers, and their professors at Thomas Aquinas.

“We are pleased to have been included in College Match Up’s list, and we are confident that ‘ENTPs’ would be, and indeed, are, very happy with our unique program of Catholic liberal education,” says Director of Admissions Jon Daly. “But I hasten to add that students of all personality types do well here. In fact, the success of the Discussion Method requires the interplay of different kinds of thinking and thinkers. We have found that anyone who is willing and able to work hard in pursuit of the truth, regardless of their learning or interpersonal styles, will thrive at Thomas Aquinas College.”