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St. John's College, a very unusual example of the liberal arts tradition.
Top-ranked liberal arts colleges include Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Middlebury, Carleton, Bowdoin, Pomona, Haverford, and Davidson.<ref>[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1libartco_brief.php Liberal Arts Colleges: Top Schools], U. S. News and World Report]. The colleges of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC)<ref>[http://www.nescac.com/ NESCAC]: Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan, Williams</ref> are called the "little Ivies" and are sometimes seen analogous to the universities of the [[Ivy League]]. Most of them were historically men's colleges. The "Seven Sisters," another famous group, were historically women's liberal arts colleges; of the original seven, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard remain women's colleges; Wellesley and Vassar are coeducational; and Radcliffe no longer exists as an undergraduate college.<ref>[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/cic/about/12812.shtml The Seven Sisters], Mount Holyoke's website</ref>
Top-ranked liberal arts colleges include Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Middlebury, Carleton, Bowdoin, Pomona, Haverford, and Davidson.<ref>[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1libartco_brief.php Liberal Arts Colleges: Top Schools], U. S. News and World Report]. The colleges of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC)<ref>[http://www.nescac.com/ NESCAC]: Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Colby, Connecticut College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan, Williams</ref> are called the "little Ivies" and are sometimes seen analogous to the universities of the [[Ivy League]]. Most of them were historically men's colleges. The "Seven Sisters," another famous group, were historically women's liberal arts colleges; of the original seven, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard remain women's colleges; Wellesley and Vassar are coeducational; and Radcliffe no longer exists as an undergraduate college.<ref>[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/cic/about/12812.shtml The Seven Sisters], Mount Holyoke's website</ref>
St. John's College<ref>Not to be confused with several other institutions of higher learning with similar names, such as St. John's University in New York. St. John's College is nominally a very venerable institution, founded in 1696, but not considered a "colonial college" because it was not chartered until 1784. However, it came close to closing in the 1930s and the present institution really dates back to the founding of the "new program" in 1937.</ref>, with campuses in Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a very unusual example of the liberal arts tradition. St. John's follows a "great books" curriculum, in which the entire course of study is based on the direct study of original source texts. Students literally learn geometry from Euclid's ''Elements,'' physics from Galileo's ''Two New Sciences,'' and political science from ''The Federalist'' papers. The works in the reading list<ref>[http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/asp/main.aspx?page=1302 Reading list], St. John's college</ref> are read in their entirety. (The instructional environment ensures that students do emerge with an up-to-date understanding of scientific and other topics).
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