<p>I'm looking for colleges that let you design your own interdisciplinary program of study. I want to get a doctorate degree, though, in occupational therapy. I'd like to combine lots of different disciplines in a liberal arts school.</p>
<p>So far, I've found two colleges that offer the sort of thing I'm looking for:
Hampshire College and Marlboro College.</p>
<p>Any other suggestions?</p>
<p>3.6 GPA, 1270 SAT</p>
<p>Amherst, Smith, and Brown.</p>
<p>I couldn’t even dream of getting in to any of those schools. Are there any lesser-known ones?</p>
<p>Juniata College in Pennsylvania. They have something called the POE (Program of Emphasis) that supposedly allows students to design their own major with the help of advisors.</p>
<p>Rhodes. There are a number of interdisciplinary programs already listed in the catalog, and you can create any other with help from your advisor.</p>
<p>University of Redlands in California - look at the Johnston school.</p>
<p>Evergreen State in Olympia.</p>
<p>Bennington in Vermont.</p>
<p>From [Open</a> Curriculum](<a href=“College Lists Wiki / College Lists Wiki News and Information”>College Lists Wiki / Open Curriculum - schools with more flexible curricula)</p>
<p>A list of schools that don’t have a core curriculum would be hundreds of schools (because they do have distribution requirements). There are only four other schools with completely open curricula like Brown:</p>
<ul>
<li>Grinnell College (IA)</li>
<li>Smith College (MA) (women only)</li>
<li>Amherst College (MA)</li>
<li>Eugene Lang College, a division of the New School (NYU)</li>
</ul>
<p>List of Schools with Different Levels of Curricular Freedom (as defined above)</p>
<p>Amherst (MA)
Antioch (OH)
Austin College
Bard (NY)
Beloit (WI) - very limited distribution requirements
Bennington
Brown University (RI)
Colgate (NY)
Eugene Lang College (about 900 students) In Greenwich Village, one division of a larger university called The New School.
Evergreen State College (WA) - [Curriculum</a> Overview at Evergreen](<a href=“http://www.evergreen.edu/about/curriculumoverview.htm]Curriculum”>http://www.evergreen.edu/about/curriculumoverview.htm)
Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU
Grinnell (IA)
Hamilton College (NY)
Hampshire College
Johnston Center at the University of Redlands (CA)
Marlboro College (MA)
Moravian College ¶ - offers students an opportunity to apply to the Add-Venture Program which bypasses the core (Learning in Common) curriculum.
New College of Florida - No required general education courses, no grades (written evaluations instead), and a thesis requirement.
New England Institute of Technology
Oberlin (OH)
Paul Smith’s College (NY)
Pitzer (CA)
U of Redlands - Johnston Center (CA)
Reed (OR)
University of Rochester
St. John’s (great books… both campuses)
Sarah Lawrence - does not have a core curriculum or majors; all students self-design their course of study
Smith College (MA) (women only)
University of Rochester (NY)
Vassar College (NY)
Wesleyan (CT)
Whitman
Wheaton (MA)</p>
<p>While pbleic’s list is useful, I will point out that having an open curriculum does not equal being able to design your own program of study in the same way you can at a place like Hampshire, as you normally still have to have a major which will have its own requirements. Correct me if I’m wrong, OP, but it sounds like you’re interested in a school where you can make your own major, correct? </p>
<p>Sarah Lawrence might also be of interest.</p>
<p>Program II @ at Duke?</p>
<p><a href=“http://trinity.duke.edu/program-ii[/url]”>http://trinity.duke.edu/program-ii</a></p>
<p>NYU Gallatin.</p>
<p>Brown does offer an independent concentration, but you will have to be approved for it. All students, regardless, have to have a contract with their advisor which lays out the proposed coursework that leads to graduation. iirc, this starts in Sophmore year. The contract can be revised.
[Independent</a> Concentrations](<a href=“http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Dean_of_the_College/advising/independent.php]Independent”>http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Dean_of_the_College/advising/independent.php)</p>
<p>OP-- Hampshire is a good one to look at, I know a very interesting guy who went there, you spend your Sr. year doing an independent study.</p>
<p>I have heard good things about Redlands Johnston Center, and mentoring, but I don’t know too much about it. Redlands is sort of up and coming as a town. Likely a pretty vibrant place.</p>
<p>Is that SAT score for 3 tests? Did you figure out what the weakness is because it is lopsided with gpa. Did you consider taking ACT? This might help you a lot.</p>
<p>How come you have a specific career decided on in HS? This is odd to me. Within larger disclipines, you might find you do better at, enjoy more, other things that can lead you to something you didn’t know about in HS.</p>
<p>The list published above may be a little dated. For instance, Antioch no longer exists as an undergraduate school (though they are working on restarting it).</p>
<p>there are a bunch of SUNYs that will let you have an “independent major” so you basically make your own. i think you still have to fulfill the rest of their distrubition requirements, but it shouldn’t be too bad. i assume other publics also have something similar, so maybe call up your in-state schools and see what they say</p>
<p>Duke has something called Program II where you can design your own major, as long as it’s approved.</p>
<p>No, my SAT is with 2 tests. 3 tests is 1930.</p>
<p>You can create your own major at pretty much any college.</p>