The Top 20 Reasons to Attend Thomas More College
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Art You will experience up close and personal the greatest artworks in Western history on tours of Rome’s baroque churches, palaces, galleries and historic sites. Enjoy theologically and historically informed lectures on works by Bernini, Borromini, Michaelangelo, Raphael, and other masters. More >> |
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Beauty Learn why great works strike us as beautiful, exploring the principles of symmetry and order, and the spiritual significance of beauty through Thomas More College’s unique Way of Beauty program taught by baroque artist and icon painter David Clayton (as featured on EWTN). More >> |
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Catholic Identity Live in a close and profoundly Catholic learning community, with Mass and the Rosary offered daily, confessions, processions, and other devotions. Deepen your faith in an atmosphere of freedom and friendliness. More >> |
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Classical Languages Study Latin or Greek for two solid years (every student picks one or the other!), and learn to read works by Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, or Augustine in the original language. More >> |
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Community Make lifelong friendships working closely with other students to understand the great ideas of history and the meaning of human existence. Spend the long New England evenings arguing and sharing insights over coffee. More >> |
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Core Curriculum Work your way through the Great Books of the West, starting with the Epic of Gilgamesh, moving through the Greeks, Romans, the Early Church, the Middle Ages, the modern world, and the American founding. These irreplaceable readings are illuminated through lectures by deeply educated, dedicated teachers in small seminars. More >> |
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Cost Savings Gain what observers have called one of the most solid educations available in America for the price some other schools charge just for room and board. Thanks to the generosity of donors and the sacrifices of its faculty and staff, Thomas More College is one of the least costly private colleges in New England. More >> |
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Ex Corde Ecclesiae Feel confident in the school’s fidelity to the Church. Thomas More College is one of only a handful of U.S. colleges that gladly follow Pope John Paul’s directives (issued in Ex Corde Ecclesiae) concerning the teaching of Catholic theology. More >> |
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Intellectual Life Prepare for advanced studies at a college where more than half the students go on to graduate school, gaining entrance to schools like Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of Chicago. Spend these four precious years with others who value your dedication to discovering the Truth in charity. More >> |
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Internships Prepare yourself for a vocation in communications, journalism, publishing, or service to the Church by joining other Thomas More College students in the exclusive internships the College arranges with international news agencies, Vatican offices, Catholic apostolates, and pro-life organizations. More >> |
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Nature Spend your college years in the clean, unpolluted woods of New Hampshire, within easy driving distance of the White Mountains, Atlantic beaches, countless campgrounds, and hiking trails. More >> |
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Novels Enjoy the best works of Cervantes, Austen, Dostoevsky, Twain, Faulkner, Penn Warren, Percy, and many others in Thomas More College’s intimate literature tutorials, taught by literary scholars who are widely published authors. More >> |
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Oxford Program Walk in the footsteps of Newman, Hopkins, Chesterton, Lewis, and Tolkien during the College’s Oxford summer program, conducted by Oxford-based Catholic theologian Stratford Caldecott, who conducts students through these historic sites and offers them access to the private library of G.K. Chesterton, which he manages. More >> |
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Philosophy Work through the deepest questions man has ever asked, and continues to ask, about the purpose and structure of human life. Seminars range from Plato to Kierkegaard and beyond. More >> |
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Politics Study the greatest thinkers on how human society ought to organize itself, and how we can be responsible citizens, reading Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas as a foundation—then moving forward through more modern political thinkers and exploring contemporary questions. More >> |
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Poetry Appreciate the structure, texture, and meaning of the most beautiful poems in the English language in small seminars led by a published poet—and learn to write your own sonnets, ballads, blank verse and even limericks. More >> |
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Rome Semester Spend a whole college term living with monks at their pastoral villa in heart of Rome just miles from the Forum and the Vatican, exploring the historic artworks and sites of Rome and neighboring cities. Attend Mass with Pope Benedict XVI, and meet important Vatican officials, even as you study poetics, art, and architecture with the College’s Rome-based faculty. More >> |
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Science Learn about the structure, order, and purpose of natural creation and the mathematical and logical tools used by scientists, exploring the flora and fauna of New England in the woods surrounding the College and at other sites. More >> |
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Theology Deepen your understanding of the mysteries of the Faith and the intellectual elaboration of divine Revelation through Thomas More College’s carefully constructed four-year theology sequence. Topics range from the quest for God, through sacred Scripture and the works of Church Fathers, through key Church documents and the structure of the liturgy. More >> |
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Writing Learn to apprehend and communicate the Truth, elegantly and persuasively, through a three-semester tutorial sequence ranging from the art of the essay, through Classical rhetoric, to the writing of formal poetry. Every student has a one-on-one conference on every paper in these classes with the College’s writer-in-residence—an experienced author, editor, and Catholic apologist. More >> |
