List of Colleges That Have Little or No Distribution Reqs

<p>Just add them in alphabetical order.</p>

<p>Brown</p>

<p>Amherst
Smith</p>

<p>What are distribution requirements?</p>

<p>Brown and Johns Hopkins are 2 i can think of off the top of my head</p>

<p>Univ. of Rochester</p>

<p>Correct me if I'm wrong, but</p>

<p>Hampshire
Sarah Lawrence</p>

<p>To answer mtngoat1, some schools require you, instead of having a rigid core curriculum, to take a certain number of courses each in a few general area of study. Because you must fulfill these 'distributions' of courses in these pre-defined academic areas, they are distribution requirements.</p>

<p>For example, at my university (Princeton), we have seven different distribution areas: social analysis, epistemology and cognition, quantitative reasoning, science and technology, historical analysis, literature and the arts, ethical thought and moral values, etc. Bachelor of Arts students also have to take a writing seminar and complete up to four terms of foreign language. I know those distribution names sound like BS, but you take 1-2 courses in each one, and you have a wide variety of courses to choose from. I'm sure it works similarly at other schools with distribution reqs. </p>

<p>Now, even firmer yet, schools like Columbia Univ. and Univ. of Chicago have core curriculums, which means that every student takes a set track of courses throughout their college career with other electives and departmentals added on on top of that (which by the time you are a junior or senior, you are doing mostly departmentals). </p>

<p>What the OP is looking for is schools with open curriculums, which have no required courses except for pre-requisites and departmental entry requirements. Brown University, Amherst College, Hamilton College, Grinnell College, and Wake Forest University have open curricula to my knowledge.</p>

<p>So...</p>

<p>Amherst College
Brown University
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Hampshire College
Johns Hopkins University
Sarah Lawrence
University of Rochester
Wake Forest University</p>

<p>Amherst College
Brown University
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Hampshire College
Johns Hopkins University
Lafayette College
Sarah Lawrence
University of Rochester
Wake Forest University</p>

<p>Added Vassar, Wesleyan, Hobart and William Smith College, Cornell College, New College of Florida.</p>

<p>Note that NCF and Hampshire are centered around a capstone project-- that's not everyone's cup of tea, either.</p>

<p>Amherst College
Brown University
Cornell College (not Cornell U!)
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Hampshire College
Hobart and William Smith College
Johns Hopkins University
Lafayette College
New College of Florida
Sarah Lawrence
University of Rochester
Vassar College
Wake Forest University
Wesleyan University</p>

<p>Amherst College
Brown University
Cornell College (not Cornell U!)
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Hampshire College
Hobart and William Smith College
Johns Hopkins University
Lafayette College
New College of Florida
Sarah Lawrence
Smith College
University of Rochester
Vassar College
Wake Forest University
Wesleyan University</p>

<p><em>bump</em></p>

<p>this is a useful tool as current senior create their college lists...</p>