Online St. John's College

Online St. John's College is a private institution that was founded in 1696. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 426, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 36 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. St. John's College's ranking in the 2016 edition of Best Colleges is National Liberal Arts Colleges, 55. Its tuition and fees are $49,119 (2015-16).

St. John's commitment to collaborative inquiry and to the study of original texts fosters intellectual courage, a continuing readiness to learn, and the self-knowledge that arises from exploring fundamental issues in community with others. All classes at St. John's are small, student-driven discussions devoted to the examination of seminal works of philosophy, literature, mathematics, science, and music. The college's highly respected undergraduate curriculum and educational practices have long given St. John's a distinguished place among American colleges and universities. Through close engagement with the writings of authors such as Homer, Aristotle, Cervantes, Newton, Darwin, Nietzsche, Woolf, and Stevens, students at St. John's learn to ask penetrating questions, hone their ability to tackle complex problems, develop imaginative vision, and cultivate enduring habits of thoughtful reflection. The faculty shares the college's dedication to an education that emphasizes the essential over the simply technical, literacy over mere proficiency, and intellectual engagement over rigid expertise. This emphasis has made St. John's a vibrant community of learning, where discussions begun in class spill readily out onto the quad, or into the coffee shop. Because all students are immersed in a common, four-year curriculum and most live on campus, students in all years form lasting friendships. Boundaries between classroom and campus life are few: students share their interests and discover new ones by participating in student-initiated study groups, in student-directed theatre performances, in the active musical life on campus, and in diverse athletic activities, which include sailing on Chesapeake Bay, rowing on College Creek, a multi-faceted intramural sports program, and annual sporting traditions ranging from `Spartan madball' to a croquet match against the U.S. Naval Academy. Located in the heart of Maryland's historic state capital, St. John's Annapolis also offers students many opportunities to become involved in the life of the local community, as well as occasions to visit the nearby cities of Washington and Baltimore. The college attracts a diverse student body from across the United States and from five continents. Students may also opt to spend a year at the college's other campus, St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.