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Goucher College
Goucher College, founded in 1885 as a women's college before going fully coeducational in 1986, has built a distinctive national reputation around a mandatory study-abroad requirement — every undergraduate must complete an international travel or study experience to graduate, a requirement Goucher was the first American college to make universally mandatory. The college's small size, around 1,300 undergraduates, and its wooded suburban Baltimore County campus give it an intimate, close-knit liberal arts college feel distinct from the larger public universities elsewhere in the state. Goucher's creative writing and dance programs have built particular strength relative to the college's overall size, and its low-residency MFA programs in creative nonfiction and other fields have drawn writers and students from well beyond the college's traditional undergraduate base. The college's combination of a genuinely mandatory global-education requirement and its small, personalized liberal arts setting has made Goucher a distinctive choice among Maryland's private colleges, particularly for students specifically prioritizing guaranteed international experience as part of their undergraduate education.
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St. John's College
St. John's College, founded in 1696, is one of the oldest colleges in the country, and its distinctive "Great Books" curriculum — in which every student follows the exact same four-year program built entirely around original primary texts from Homer to Einstein, with no traditional majors or elective courses — is unlike that of any other accredited American college. Classes at St. John's are conducted entirely through small, seminar-style discussions led by "tutors" rather than professors delivering lectures, and students read primary source texts directly rather than textbooks or secondary summaries, a structure the college considers central to its educational philosophy of direct engagement with original ideas. The college maintains a twin campus in Santa Fe, New Mexico, alongside its original Annapolis location, with students able to study at either or split their time between both campuses, though the curriculum itself remains identical and equally rigorous at both locations. St. John's small size and its uniquely rigid, universally shared curriculum have made it one of the most distinctive undergraduate institutions in the country, drawing a specific type of student deliberately seeking an entirely primary-text-based liberal arts education unlike anything offered at a conventional college.
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