Hi everyone,
I’m a student from Britain and I’m interested in places with an open curriculum.
As you can probably imagine its hard to find places like that in Britain (there are only around c.6 good universities which do liberal arts degrees)
Brown immediately springs to mind but are there any other great colleges with an open curriculum?
thanks for your time, 
Amherst is great.
Some that are slightly less prestigious/selective include Hampshire, UC Santa Cruz, and Evergreen. Bennington and Bard, too, maybe? (not so sure about those last two)
Smith, Grinnell, Amherst, Hamilton, Brown. The University of Rochester to a somewhat lesser extent.
Lehigh has what they call a ‘flexible’ curriculum
What do YOU mean by an open curriculum. I think technically all US schools qualify to some degree.
Open, in terms of my reply, was interpreted to mean that, beyond the requirements for a major, students are permitted to choose their courses on an essentially unrestricted basis.
Meaning that students can choose their course (outside major requirements) without being restricted to particular topics
Vassar
Vassar does have freshman writing seminar, quantitative, and foreign language requirements, but is otherwise open.
Isn’t this the concept of most LACs and small universities?
I think your question seems to broad.
@swampdraggin a lot of LACs have significant core curriculum requirements. I think the OP is looking for those that do not, Hamilton would be an example
Wesleyan
Eugene Lang College at The New School, in NYC is ideal if you’d like an urban environment, but it’s fiendishly expensive. Pitzer is also excellent, but one of the priciest colleges in the US (and, therefore, the world). Look into New College of Florida. It might be an especially attractive change of climate for a Brit (as Pitzer would also be).
I know of a small liberal arts college in Pennsylvania called Juniata College. Apart from a few “core courses”, students are able to chose virtually any classes in which they find themselves interested. The only classes that are required for all students are freshmen writing seminars, but even these classes are individualized in terms of broad interests. Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore also lacks a core curriculum while maintaining great educational value.
Best of luck to you in your search! Find the place that’s just for you!
Evergreen State has the most open curriculum:
http://evergreen.edu/registration/degrees
Hopkins, Brown, Wesleyan, Smith, CCS @ UCSB - all confirmed.
Wesleyan may be a stretch in that students who do not complete general education courses “will not be eligible for University honors, Phi Beta Kappa, honors in general scholarship, or for honors in certain departments . . .”
The OP is looking for “great colleges” with open curricula, not necessarily the college with “the most open” curriculum.
A second component of openness is whether all courses are available to all students on a roughly equal basis. Schools which require competitive entrance procedures for certain programs or courses may therefore be less open than they initially appear. This can be particularly the case for popular programs such as creative writing or film studies. Fortunately, colleges that are definably open by philosophy and design also tend to be open with respect to general course selection.
Some colleges commonly listed as “open curriculum” do have restrictions, such as limitations on the number of courses or credits in any one department or any divisional category. E.g. they may not let a student take 100% history (or math or English or economics or biology or whatever subject) courses to fulfill the credit requirements for graduation.
Grinnell has a “first year tutorial” (which has lots of options within it, so not one size fits all), but other than that it’s very flexible and you can basically put together your own curriculum https://www.grinnell.edu/academics/curriculum/individually-advised
CCS at UCSB is very unusual - their GE requirement is that you must take 8 classes in subjects not directly related to your major and you can take literally as many classes per term as you want - undergraduate or graduate (well, there is a 95 credit limit per term lol) in your major or related fields. Also you can drop a class till the last exam day. Very unusual for a public university research/honors college. Kind of blows away the even the most relaxed interpretation of the term “open curriculum”. Only restriction is you have to have a major. Their belief is that it will help you take classes you would not if you did not have this flexibility.