Founded: 1981

Type of institution: Very small liberal arts college

Setting: Urban

Undergraduate enrollment: 87 (2008–09 academic year)

Undergraduate cost: $18,000 (tuition, room and board for 2009–10)

Undergraduate major: One (Liberal Arts)

Five Key Points

1.   All students study liberals arts with an orthodox Catholic emphasis.

2.   Very small environment allows for close faculty-student interaction.

3.   The curriculum includes the Great Books and other influential works.

4.   Emulates a 19th-century Oxford University environment.

5.   About half the students are somewhat older, non-traditional students.