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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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Loyola University Maryland
Loyola University Maryland, founded in 1852 by the Jesuit order, is one of the oldest Catholic universities in the country, and its Baltimore campus has built a solid regional reputation for its business, education, and psychology programs within the broader Jesuit university network. The university's Sellinger School of Business has built a strong reputation in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, and Loyola's relatively small undergraduate enrollment, around 4,000 students, lets it maintain smaller class sizes and closer faculty engagement than the larger public universities in the region. Loyola's men's lacrosse program, which won a national championship in 2012, reflects the broader prominence of lacrosse in Maryland generally, a sport with particularly deep roots in the state relative to most of the rest of the country, and the university's athletic programs draw heavily on that regional lacrosse culture. The university's Jesuit mission, combined with its Baltimore location and solid regional business and education program reputations, has made Loyola a consistent choice for students specifically seeking a mid-sized private Catholic university experience within the Baltimore-Washington region.
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