Free-Spirited Students

For students who want the freedom to design their own majors and prefer written evaluations to letter grades, Newsweek ranks the best schools.

Sep 14, 2011 3:01 PM EDT

Grading system: Grades optional

Curriculum design: No core curriculum, students design their own course of study

Students that rated campus political beliefs as “progressive”: n/a

Undergraduate enrollment: 660

Student to faculty ratio: 9-to-1

SAT requirement: No

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