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Centre College
Centre College, founded in 1819, is consistently ranked among the top liberal arts colleges in the country, and its remarkably high law school and medical school acceptance rates relative to its small size have made it one of the most respected pre-professional liberal arts colleges in the South. The college hosted the 2000 and 2012 US vice presidential debates, an unusual honor for a small liberal arts college with fewer than 1,500 students, reflecting Centre's institutional reputation and its relationships with national political and media figures built up over decades. Centre's study-abroad participation rate is among the highest of any American liberal arts college, with the vast majority of students completing at least one international study term, and the college's endowment per student ranks among the highest of any small liberal arts college in the region. The college's Danville, Kentucky campus and its combination of strong pre-professional outcomes, high study-abroad participation, and its unusual history hosting major national political debates have made Centre one of the most distinctive small liberal arts colleges in the South.
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Berea College
Berea College, founded in 1855, charges no tuition to any student, funding the entire cost of every student's education through its endowment and a mandatory campus work-study program in which every student works at least 10 hours a week in a job tied to the college's operations, a model unlike that of almost any other accredited American college. The college was founded with an explicit dual mission of educating students regardless of race or gender at a time, in the pre-Civil War South, when that commitment was both unusual and legally contested, and Berea was forced to become briefly segregated under Kentucky state law before regaining its integrated admissions policy decades later. Berea's admissions process specifically prioritizes low-income students, particularly from the Appalachian region surrounding the college, reflecting its founding mission of providing access to higher education for students who otherwise couldn't afford it, regardless of their academic background. The college's combination of a genuinely tuition-free education, a mandatory labor program tied directly to the institution's operations, and its specific mission serving Appalachian and low-income students has made Berea one of the most distinctive colleges in the country, unlike nearly any other American higher education institution's funding and admissions model.
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