<p>I'm searching for colleges and like the idea of a strong core curriculum, but I'm from a really small place and I'm kind of worried about moving to a city like Chicago fresh out of highschool. Does anyone know colleges with a core curriculum like uChicago?</p>
<p>Columbia’s Core is inspired by UChicago’s, but, um, it’s in an even bigger city…</p>
<p>I believe Colgate University has somewhat of a core curriculum but don’t know how similar it is to UChicago’s. You would have to check it.
St. John’s has core curriculum as well.</p>
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You have it backwards. Columbia’s Core inspired Chicago, St. John’s, and other Great Books schools. </p>
<p>Note that you can recreate a core curriculum pretty much anywhere through the right mix of classes. What makes a place like Columbia unique is that everyone is taking those classes. </p>
<p>Take a look at Colgate. </p>
<p>Reed does not exactly have a core curriculum, but it does require all first-year students to take the year-long Humanities 110 course.</p>
<p>A lot of the colleges with religious (Christian?) roots seem to have held onto a core. BTW, while UChicago is in a big city, it’s neighborhood is like a little town. </p>
<p>MIT and Harvey Mudd have significant core requirements, although almost all of them are in math and science subjects. Both have significant humanities and social studies requirements, but the student can choose which humanities and social studies subjects to take courses from for these (except for Harvey Mudd’s HSA 10 that is part of the core).</p>
<p>The military service academies also have significant core requirements.</p>
<p>UNC Asheville has four specific required courses plus a number of additional breadth course requirements.</p>
<p>St. John’s College has a core curriculum that is the entire curriculum.</p>
<p>Tiny Shimer College in Chicago. <a href=“http://www.shimer.edu/”>The Shimer Great Books School at North Central College;
It’s a lot like St. John’s. Discussion-based. Original texts.
Apparently, cross-registration at Illinois Tech (IIT). </p>
<p>Sewanee: The University of the South is a small liberal arts college with pretty extensive core requirements.</p>
<p>Like others mentioned, Columbia and St. John’s. William and Mary also has a pretty extensive core curriculum (with more flexibility, however) consisting of mathematics and quantitative reasoning, natural sciences, social sciences, world cultures and history, literature and history of the arts, creative and performing arts, foreign language, and philosophical/religious thought. If you’re worried about the “big city” transition, such a school may be a better fit as it is in suburban colonial Williamsburg.</p>