SANTA PAULA, CA—January 29—Drawing upon research from the educational data-analytics firm College Factual, USA Today recently proclaimed Thomas Aquinas College one of the country’s Best 10 Colleges for the Money.
The
“Best Colleges” ranking identifies schools that have “good outcomes for
students,” such as high graduation rates and low student-loan default
rates, as well as a “reasonable price tag” for the education they offer.
In evaluating the total cost of attending a school, College Factual
calculates an “average net price” — tuition minus scholarships and
financial aid — and multiplies that amount by the average number of
semesters it takes students to graduate. Most Thomas Aquinas students,
College Factual reports, graduate in 4.1 years; nationally, the average is closer to five or six years.
“Thomas Aquinas is a small private school firmly rooted in the Catholic tradition,” reads the College’s profile on the College Factual website. “The school has high freshmen retention and graduation rates, as well as a low student to faculty ratio and high amount of full time teachers.… Compared to schools of a similar caliber, Thomas Aquinas is underpriced.”
The College’s being named to USA Today’s
“Best 10 Colleges for the Money” list, says Director of Admissions Jon
Daly, is a reflection of its longstanding commitment to value and
affordability. Thomas Aquinas College turns no student away on the basis
of financial need, and it caps the amount that students are asked to
borrow at $18,000 over four years. Average total debt after four years
is less than half the national average of nearly $35,000.
“By
God’s grace, and thanks to the tremendous generosity of our
benefactors, Thomas Aquinas College is able to offer a one-of-a-kind
Catholic liberal education that is within the financial reach of all families,” says Mr. Daly. “We have long considered our school to be a ‘best value,’ and it is heartening to see that USA Today and College Factual, as well as many secular and Catholic college guides, agree.”
About Thomas Aquinas College
Thomas
Aquinas College is a four-year, Catholic liberal arts college with a
fully-integrated curriculum composed of the Great Books, the seminal
works in the major disciplines by the great thinkers who have helped
shape Western civilization. There are no textbooks, no lectures and no
electives. Instead, under the guidance of faculty members and using only
the Socratic method of dialogue in classes of no more than 20, students
read and discuss the original works of authors such as Euclid, Dante,
Galileo, Descartes, the American Founding Fathers, Adam Smith,
Shakespeare, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Einstein, Aristotle, Plato, St.
Augustine, and of course, St. Thomas Aquinas. Graduates consistently
excel in the many world-class institutions at which they pursue graduate
degrees in fields such as law, medicine, business, theology and
education. They have distinguished themselves serving as lawyers,
doctors, business owners, priests, military service men and women,
educators, journalists and college presidents.
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