: The Antioch College Model :
What Can You Expect from an Antioch College Education?
First, you can expect personalized and individualized education.
In an age where mass-produced education is a powerful tendency, Antioch commits itself to work with each student to discover and nurture his or her personal gifts, learning style, challenges, and aspirations, and to find ways to address each of these in developing the student’s work at Antioch.
To accomplish this personalization, we develop learning plans that fit the individual whenever possible. Some chief features of the Antioch program that serve personalization are these:
- You will develop an individualized major with the help of your advisor. These can range from familiar ones like history or visual art to ones developing your particular interests.
- You will experience an extensive co-op program of work terms alternating with academic terms, in which meaningful work placements are chosen and integrated with your individual aspirations and needs.
- Your classes will be small enough, even at the introductory level, to allow extensive discussion and personal faculty attention to your own learning.
- You’ll experience an individualized approach to language learning that equips you for practical effectiveness in living and working in non-English language contexts.
- You’ll receive mentored growth in community-participation skills from the beginning of your time at the college, and developing throughout the Antioch experience.
You can expect an education for a meaningful career that uses your gifts…from the beginning.
College can too easily be seen as only “preparation for life.” At Antioch College, we believe that College is best seen as part of life itself. One can best prepare to apply theories one learns to the “real world” if the college experience itself provides for a rich and continuing interplay between theory and practice. Antioch provides a unique liberal arts context for this kind of education through its co-op program.
Antioch College helps you cultivate your gifts toward a career by:
- The co-op program is uniquely designed to relate your work experience to academic learning, and the strengths you are developing, by alternating work and study. The placement is chosen to integrate with your overall academic and life plans.
- Individualized language learning that allows you to become increasingly functional in diverse global settings.
- Community-participation skill-building that helps you use your gifts effectively in your career setting, community, and your efforts to “win victories for humanity” [an aspiration phrased by Horace Mann, and part of Antioch College’s mission].
You can expect to get an education that prepares for a changing world.
An Antioch education reflects the need for educated people who can combine specialized expertise with broad familiarity with ways of knowing and acting effectively. College graduates will work in a world that is more diverse than ever, and that will require sensitivity to increasingly global dimensions of human life and work.
Some of the elements of the Antioch program that help you get this kind of education are:
- The rich and broad liberal arts emphasis on your understanding and being able to use many different ways of knowing and experiencing and creating.
- Education in diversity through co-ops, community participation on a diverse campus, and your participation in the Global Seminars.
- Global understanding enhanced by the Global Seminars, international co-ops, and individualized language learning.
You can expect a high-quality education that is affordable and efficient.
High quality liberal education in the United States is challenged by rapidly increasing costs, making it too often inaccessible to many prospective students. The Antioch educational program is designed to provide personalized education that is highly efficient and therefore economical.
How does an Antioch College education compare with degrees at other colleges?
Antioch College offers Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees. You will choose one of these, based on your choice of concentration and major. These are traditional undergraduate degrees, allowing you to move directly into a career or to pursue further study at a master's, Ph.D. or other professional degree (such as law or medicine) level.
