Liberal arts education is the traditional academic course in Western higher education. Liberal arts takes the term art in the sense of a learned skill rather than specifically the fine arts. Liberal arts education can refer to studies in a liberal arts degree course or to a university education more generally. Such a course of study contrasts with those that are principally vocational, professional, or technical, as well as religiously based courses.
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences is the undergraduate liberal arts college of Duke University. Founded in 1838, it is the original school of the university. Currently, Trinity is one of three undergraduate degree programs at Duke, the others being the Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering and Duke Kunshan University.
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs is the professional public policy school of Syracuse University, a private research university in Syracuse, New York. The school is organized in 11 academic departments and 13 affiliated research centers and offers coursework in the fields of public administration, international relations, foreign policy, political Science, science and technology policy, social sciences, and economics through its undergraduate (BA) degrees, graduate Master of Public Affairs (MPA), Master of Arts (MA), and PhD degrees.
The Texas A&M University College of Science was an academic science college of Texas A&M University in College Station. It was founded in 1924. The faculty included a Nobel laureate and three National Academy of Sciences members. The college was dissolved in 2022, two years before what would have been its 100th year in existence.
The Lyman Briggs College (LBC) is a residential college located at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. Established as a residential college in 1967, Lyman Briggs was a residential school within the College of Natural Sciences from 1981 to 2007, and returned to residential college status in 2007.
The University of Eswatini is the national university of Eswatini.
The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is the liberal arts and sciences college at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (NU) in Lincoln, Nebraska. CAS was established in 1869, the same year the University of Nebraska was founded, and is the largest of NU's nine colleges. Mark Button has served as dean of the college since 2019.
The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is the liberal arts and sciences unit of the University of Washington. In autumn 2022, the CAS offered more than 5,400 courses and had an enrollment of 21,913 students, making it the largest division of the university.
The Texas Tech University College of Arts & Sciences was founded in 1925 as one of Texas Tech University's four original colleges. With 16 departments, the college offers a wide variety of courses and programs in the humanities, social and behavioral sciences, mathematics and natural sciences. Students can choose from 41 bachelor's degree programs, 34 master's degrees and 14 doctoral programs. With over 10,000 students enrolled, the College of Arts & Sciences is the largest college on the Texas Tech University campus.
The College of Natural Science (NatSci) at Michigan State University is home to 27 departments and programs in the biological, physical and mathematical sciences.
The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is one of the eleven degree-granting units of the University of the Philippines Los Baños. It is the largest college in University of the Philippines System which offers most of the general education subjects required of UPLB students, as well as the highest number of degree programs in the University. The Philippines' Commission on Higher Education has recognized CAS as a Center of Excellence in Biology, Chemistry, Information Technology and Mathematics, as well as a Center of Development in Physics and Statistics.
The University of the Philippines Manila College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is one of the nine-degree granting units of the University of the Philippines Manila. It is the largest college by population of UP Manila.
A College of Arts and Sciences or School of Arts and Sciences, in some cases a College of Liberal Arts and Pure Sciences, is most commonly an individual institution or a unit within a university that focuses on instruction of the liberal arts and pure sciences, although they frequently include programs and faculty in fine arts, social sciences, and other disciplines such as humanities. They are especially found in North America and the Philippines.
The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) is the liberal arts and sciences unit of the University of Kentucky, located in Lexington, Kentucky. It is primarily divided between the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and offers more than thirty degree options for both undergraduate and graduate students.
Santa Clara University College of Arts & Sciences is a private academic institution at Santa Clara University. It is the largest of the professional schools at Santa Clara University.
The College of Science at Virginia Tech contains academic programs in eight departments: biology, chemistry, economics, geosciences, mathematics, physics, psychology, and statistics, as well as programs in the School of Neuroscience, the Academy of Integrated Science, and founded in 2020, an Academy of Data Science. For the 2018-209 academic year, the College of Science consisted of 419 faculty members, and 4,305 students, and 600 graduate students The college was established in July 2003 after university restructuring split the College of Arts and Sciences, established in 1963, into two distinct colleges. Lay Nam Chang served as founding dean of the College of Science from 2003 until 2016. In 2016, Sally C. Morton was named dean of the College of Science. Morton served in that role until January 2021, when she departed for Arizona State University and Ronald D. Fricker—senior associate dean and professor in the Department of Statistics—was named interim dean of the College. In February 2022, Kevin T. Pitts was named the named the third official dean of the College of Science.
The College of Arts & Sciences of Ohio University is a college of Ohio University, a public research university in Athens, Ohio. It is one of its eleven colleges and is centrally located in Wilson Hall on the College Green. The college features twenty organized academic departments. Additionally, it hosts two centers for its International Studies and Law, Justice & Culture programs. The current dean is economist Florenz Plassman.
The William J. and John F.Kennedy College of Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Lowell is so named for the Kennedy family and their contributions to the campus. John F. Kennedy is an alumnus of the Lowell Technological Institute Class of 1970. The Lowell Technological Institute merged with the Lowell State College to become the University of Lowell in 1972. It joined the UMass system in 1991 to become Umass Lowell.
George Malcolm Langford is a Professor of Biology, Dean Emeritus of the College of Arts and Sciences, and a distinguished Professor of Neuroscience at Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences in Syracuse, New York. He is known for his work on the cell and molecular biology of the actin cytoskeleton in health and disease.
