liberal arts

Genuine liberal arts learning requires students to wrestle with the best that has been written and said by the most rigorous thinkers, living and dead, on all sides of the issues.

California grads who moved to New York for college were drawn to smaller, competitive private liberal arts colleges, usually with heftier tuitions than California’s public universities.

By 1926, the school was on the verge of being able to offer diplomas in the liberal arts.

“It’s a liberal arts college because these people have so many different interests, and those are not being represented,” said Zhan.

At Brandeis, we are integrating the liberal arts with the applied arts, giving students “a foot in the library and a foot in the street.”