St John's College

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Information Summary

Ranks 823rd overall and 5th in New Mexico

Demographics – Main Campus and Surrounding Areas

Reported area around or near Santa Fe, NM 87505-4599

Carnegie Foundation Classification

Baccalaureate Colleges — Arts & Sciences

Undergraduate	Arts & sciences focus, some graduate coexistence
Graduate	Postbaccalaureate, arts & sciences dominant
Undergraduate Population	Full-time four-year, more selective, higher transfer-in
Enrollment	High undergraduate
Size & Setting	Very small four-year, highly residential

General Characteristics

Highest offering	Master's degree
Calendar System	Semester
Years of college work required	N/A
Variable Tuition

Special Learning Opportunities

Distance Learning
ROTC — Army / Navy / Air Force	— / /
Study Abroad
Weekend College
Teacher Certification

Student Tuition Costs and Fees

What are the typical tuition costs and fees for attending St John's College?

Ranks 89th for total cost of attendance

Student Tuition Cost History and Trends

Three year history and trends on the cost of attending

	In District	In State	Out of State
Published Tuition & Fees	$32,574  $36,596	$32,574  $36,596	$32,574  $36,596

	Cost (regardless of residency)
Books & Supplies	$275  $280
On-Campus – Room & Board	$7,876  $8,884
On-Campus – Other Expenses	$1,350  $1,350
Off-Campus w/out Family – Room & Board	N/A  N/A
Off-Campus w/out Family – Other Expenses	N/A  N/A
Off-Campus with Family – Room & Board	N/A  N/A

Admission Details

Admission Criteria

What criteria does St John's College use for admissions?

= Required, = Recommended, = Neither required nor recommended

Open Admissions
Secondary School GPA / Rank / Record	N/A / /
College Prep. Completion
Recommendations
Formal competency demo	N/A
Admission test scores	N/A
TOEFL
Other tests	N/A

Admission Credits Accepted

What types of credits does St John's College accept?

Dual Credit
Life Experience
Advanced Placement (AP)

Student Services

Remedial Services
Academic / Career Counseling
PT Cost-defraying Employment
Career Placement
On-Campus Day Care
Library Facility

Student Living

First-time Room / Board Required
Dorm Capacity	327
Meals per Week	20
Room Fee	$5,246
Board Fee	$3,738

Student Financial Aid Details

How many students use Financial Aid, and how much do they use?

St John's College Ranks 3359th for the average student loan amount.

	Average	Users	% of Attendees
Federal Grant Aid	$3,552	25	22%
State & Local Grant Aid	$2,960	5	4%
Institutional Grant Aid	$20,351	74	65%
Student Loan Aid	$3,445	86	75%
Any financial aid type		92	81%

Student Enrollment Demographics

How many students are enrolled at St John's College?

Student Graduation Demographics

How many students graduated at St John's College?

Most Popular Fields of Study

The top 5 fields of study completed at St John's College.

Student Completion / Graduation Demographics

How many students are successful graduates?

Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Other						25		25
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities, Other	6	1	5	4	3	115	5	139
Total	6	1	5	4	3	140	5	164

Faculty Compensation / Salaries

St John's College Ranks 569th for the average full-time faculty salary.

Tenure system
Average FT Salary	$68,956 ($70,055 male / $64,229 female)
Number of FT Faculty	53 (43 male / 10 female)
Number of PT Faculty	13
FT Faculty Ratio	4 : 1
Total Benefits	$1,433,670

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St John's College Summary

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St. John’s College describes itself as one college on two campuses: St. John’s College, Annapolis and St. John’s College, Santa Fe. As the successor to the King William’s School, a grammar school founded in 1696, St. John’s College, Annapolis was chartered in 1784, making it one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the U.S. Since 1937, the school has followed an unusual curriculum, called The New Program or the Great Books Program, based on discussion of works from the Western philosophic and literary canon. Despite its name, St. John’s College has no religious affiliation. The Great Books program (often called simply “the Program” at St. John’s) was developed at the University of Chicago by Stringfellow Barr, Scott Buchanan, Robert Hutchins, and Mortimer Adler in the mid-1930s as an alternate form of education to the then rapidly changing undergraduate curriculum. St. John’s adopted the Great Books program in 1937, when the college was facing the possibility of financial and academic ruin. In line with the views of the program’s founders—who complained of “vocational interests” that “clutter” other college’s curricula—”Johnnies”, as St. John’s students style themselves, usually value intellectual pursuits for their own sake, regardless of whether they have practical application. Unlike mainstream U.S. colleges, St. John’s eschews contemporary textbooks, lectures, and examinations. St. John’s College was chartered in 1784 and later began granting bachelor’s degrees. In 1940, national attention was attracted to St. John’s by a story in Life Magazine entitled: The Classics: At St. John’s They Come into Their Own Once More. They were sold to the general public as well as to students, and by 1941 the St. John’s College bookshop was famous as the only source for English translations of works such as Copernicus’s De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, St. Augustine’s De Musica, and Ptolemy’s Almagest. At the time, the New York Times, which had expected a legal battle royal comparable to the Dartmouth case, commented that “although a small college of fewer than 200 students, St. John’s has, because of its experimental liberal arts program, received more publicity and been the center of a greater academic controversy than most other colleges in the land. In late 1946 Forrestal withdrew the plan, in the face of public opposition and the disapproval of the House Naval Affairs Committee, but Barr and Scott Buchanan were already committed to leaving St. John’s and attempting to launch a new, similar college in Stockbridge, Massachusetts; In 1961, the governing board of St. John’s approved plans to establish a second college at Santa Fe, New Mexico. Its Great Hall has seen many college events, from balls feting Generals Lafayette and Washington to the unique St. John’s institutions called waltz parties. In 1975, a St. John’s graduate gave this description of how a St. John’s degree was received by other institutions: Motivational business speaker Zig Ziglar included a chapter on “St. John’s: A College That Works” in a 1997 book. As of 2005, St. John’s college has chosen not to participate in any collegiate rankings surveys, has not sent them their requested survey information. He notes that An educational reporter wrote: Still, the College Board reports that nearly all students submit SAT scores, and those of St. John’s students are among the highest in the nation, with the middle 50% of first year students scoring between 660-780 on the SAT Reasoning Verbal and 590-680 on the SAT Reasoning Math. Princeton Review’s list of the twenty colleges with the “happiest students” includes both St. John’s campuses, the Santa Fe campus ranking seventh and the Annapolis campus ranking seventeenth. In the 2005 edition of the Princeton Review Guide entitled “The Best 357 Colleges”, St. John’s College (Santa Fe) recieved the following rankings: St. John’s has a reputation for being politically liberal — in the past it has made several of the liberal lists on the Princeton Review. The wife of Republican Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld served on the college’s Board of Visitors and Governors, and through this connection a past college president, John Agresto, was selected to oversee the rebuilding of the higher-education system in Iraq. The same set of Great Books is the basis of the curriculum at both campuses of St. John’s College. Thomson, Dmitri Mendeleev, Berthollet, Joseph Proust The Bible Aristotle: De Anima, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Categories Apollonius: Conics Virgil: Aeneid Plutarch: Caesar and Cato the Younger Epictetus: Discourses, Manual Tacitus: Annals Ptolemy: Almagest Plotinus: The Enneads Augustine of Hippo: Confessions Anselm of Canterbury: Proslogion Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae, Summa Contra Gentiles Dante: Divine Comedy Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales Josquin Des Prez: Mass Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince, Discourses on Livy Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Spheres Martin Luther: On the Freedom of a Christian François Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli Michel de Montaigne: Essays François Viète: Introduction to the Analytical Art Francis Bacon: Novum Organum, New Atlantis William Shakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, The Tempest, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Coriolanus, Sonnets Poems by: Andrew Marvell, John Donne, and other 16th- and 17th-century poets René Descartes: Geometry, Discourse on Method Blaise Pascal: Generation of Conic Sections Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion, Inventions Joseph Haydn: Quartets Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Operas Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas Franz Schubert: Songs Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote Galileo Galilei: Dialogues on Two New Sciences René Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy, Rules for the Direction of the Mind John Milton: Paradise Lost François de La Rochefoucauld: Maximes Jean de La Fontaine: Fables Blaise Pascal: Pensées Christiaan Huygens: Treatise on Light, On the Movement of Bodies by Impact George Eliot: Middlemarch Baruch Spinoza: Theologico-Political Treatise John Locke: Second Treatise of Government Jean Racine: Phèdre Isaac Newton: Principia Mathematica Johannes Kepler: Epitome IV Gottfried Leibniz: Monadology, Discourse on Metaphysics, Essay on Dynamics, Philosophical Essays, Principles of Nature and Grace Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Social Contract, Discourse on Origins of Inequality Molière: The Misanthrope Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, Metaphysics of Morals Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Richard Dedekind: Essay on the Theory of Numbers Leonhard Euler Declaration of Independence The Constitution Supreme Court opinions Hamilton, Jay, and Madison: The Federalist Papers Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Phenomenology of Mind, “Logic” (from the Encyclopedia) Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky: Theory of Parallels Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches Søren Kierkegaard: Philosophical Fragments, Fear and Trembling Karl Marx: Capital, Political and Economic Manuscripts of 1844, The German Ideology Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace Herman Melville: Benito Cereno Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Flannery O’Connor: Parker’s Back, The Artificial Nigger Sigmund Freud: General Introduction to Psychoanalysis Booker T. In the case of St. John’s, the question is intensified because of St. John’s idiosyncratic program and educational philosophy. Boyer lampoons St. John’s College, claiming that “The fixed curriculum of the colonial era is as much an anachronism today as the stocks in the village square.” The two campuses of St. John’s College are said to be the only places in the world to have a Ptolemy Stone, which is an astronomical instrument invented by the ancient Greek astronomer Ptolemy to measure the altitude of celestial bodies, in this case, the sun.

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