California College Information for Thomas Aquinas College
Thomas Aquinas College
10000 North Ojai Road
805-525-4417
Institution Information
Education Sector Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above
Calendar System Semester
Institutional Level Four or more years
Degree Granting Status Degree-granting
Local Urbanization Rural: Distant
Institutional Category Degree-granting, primarily baccalaureate or above
Institutional Control Private not-for-profit
Religious Affiliation Roman Catholic
Institutional Size Category Under 1,000
Thomas Aquinas College offers career counseling Thomas Aquinas College does not offer student employment services Thomas Aquinas College is not a Title IV participant
Degree Programs
Thomas Aquinas College offers: Bachelor's Degrees
Highest Degree Offered Bachelor's degree
Medical Degrees Granted No
Institutional Services
Thomas Aquinas College does not have a hospital Thomas Aquinas College does not offer on-campus day care
Room and Board
On-Campus (In-State) $30,384
On-Campus (Out-of-State) $30,384
Off-Campus (In-State) $33,756
Off-Campus (Out-of-State) $33,756
Off-Campus Family (In-State) $24,738
Off-Campus Family (Out-of-State) $24,738
Tuiton and Fees Year In-State Out-of-State 2005-2006 $18,600 $18,600 2006-2007 $19,300 $19,300 2007-2008 $20,400 $20,400
Employees
Instructional Staff 31
Employees 74
Admin Staff 13
Non-professional Staff 15
Other Staff 15
Mission Statement
Thomas Aquinas College has a single mission: the liberal education of students according to their natural powers of reason illuminated by the light of the Catholic Faith. This mission is the end by which all means are judged � from customs of community life to curricular decisions and faculty appointments, to building design and forms of governance. +++
To accomplish its mission, the College has a single, substantially unvarying program with no majors, minors, or electives. It consists in an integrated and orderly study of the liberal arts and sciences, beginning with the fundamental arts of the trivium and quadrivium, proceeding through the natural and political sciences, and culminating in theology. The College achieves its mission chiefly through reflective consideration of seminal questions raised in classical texts. These texts � often referred to as the �Great Books� � are selected by the faculty under the guidance of the Catholic tradition. In accordance with this tradition, the works of St. Thomas Aquinas occupy a preeminent position in the College�s curriculum. +++
Classes are seminars and tutorials: groups of fifteen to twenty students discussing the readings under the guidance of a faculty member. A laboratory program provides students laboratory experience in addition to the reading of primary texts. Tutorials, seminars, and laboratories are complemented by a lecture and concert series. This offers students an opportunity to witness and discuss the scholarly and artistic works of the wider community. +++
The College�s educational principles and curriculum arise from an intellectual tradition which does not fluctuate with the vicissitudes of time, founded as it is in a perennial wisdom by which the truth and merit of new insights and discoveries may be best understood. The College aims to sustain the natural wonder of students, to develop their intellectual virtues, and to help them satisfy their desire to know things noble and worth knowing.
ROTC Information
Thomas Aquinas College does not offer ROTC Army Training Thomas Aquinas College does not offer ROTC Navy Training Thomas Aquinas College does not offer ROTC Air Force Training
Sports Program Information
Thomas Aquinas College does not participate in NAIA sports programs Thomas Aquinas College does not participate in NCAA sports programs Thomas Aquinas College does not participate in NCCAA sports programs Thomas Aquinas College does not participate in NJCAA sports programs Thomas Aquinas College does not participate in NSCAA sports programs