This college is located in Meadville, Pennsylvania and founded in 1815. This college has a reputation of producing scientist and scholars but now also business leaders. Allegheny has thirty-six buildings on 72 acres, an outdoor recreational complex of 182 acres. This college ranks top 4 percent in turning out business leaders.
Allegheny College has a new curriculum that is interactive because it involves tutorials, independent study or research, perhaps with a faculty member. There is freedom to design individual majors along with core courses. Part if the new curriculum is having a seminar leader or advisor for fourteen students for two years. This person will provide guidance, and advice in a nurturing, close camaraderie way. Students are not left to feel isolated or alone, there is a sense of belonging.
Everyone has to become informed in sciences, the social sciences and , humanities and everyone has to have a major and minor; they also do a senior independent research project and defend it in an open meeting.
Most of the professor have their doctorates and earlier taught at Ivy League or Big Ten universities. Professor have quoted,” By and large, students get a better education here than the larger schools….In the big places the quality of teaching has little to do with getting tenure; here it’s heavily weighted in favor of the quality of teaching.”
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