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List of alternative universities

Index List of alternative universities

Alternative universities or colleges in the United States offer an education, and in some cases a lifestyle, that is intentionally not mainstream compared to other institutions. [1]

79 relations: Alternative education, Alternative school, Amherst, Massachusetts, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Antioch College, Asheville, North Carolina, Bar Harbor, Maine, Bard College, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, Berkeley, California, Boulder, Colorado, Brattleboro, Vermont, Bremen, California, California Institute of Integral Studies, Calistoga, California, Canada, Chicago, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California, College of the Atlantic, Curriculum, Deep Springs College, Deep Springs Valley, Democratic education, Denmark, Distance education, Education, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, Evergreen State College, Fairfield, Iowa, Germany, Goddard College, Hampshire College, Jacobs University Bremen, Johnston Center for Integrative Studies, Laurelwood, Oregon, Maharishi University of Management, Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont, Minerva Schools at KGI, Montpelier, Vermont, Mount Desert Island, Naropa University, New College of Florida, New York City, Oberlin College, ..., Oberlin, Ohio, Olympia, Washington, Pitzer College, Plainfield, Vermont, Portland, Oregon, Prescott College, Prescott, Arizona, Quest University, Redlands, California, Reed College, San Francisco, Sarah Lawrence College, Sarasota, Florida, Shimer College, Special education, Squamish, British Columbia, The New School, The Sphere College Project, Ukiah, California, Ulfborg-Vemb Municipality, UnCollege, Union Institute & University, University of Redlands, Unschooling, Warren Wilson College, Weirton, West Virginia, Westbrook University, Yellow Springs, Ohio, Yonkers, New York. Expand index (29 more) »

Alternative education

Alternative education encompasses many pedagogical approaches differing from mainstream pedagogy.

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Alternative school

An alternative school is an educational establishment with a curriculum and methods that are nontraditional.

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Amherst, Massachusetts

Amherst is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Connecticut River valley.

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Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

Annandale-on-Hudson is a hamlet in Dutchess County, New York, United States, in the Hudson Valley in the town of Red Hook, across the Hudson River from Kingston.

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Antioch College

Antioch College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

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Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville is a city and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.

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Bar Harbor, Maine

Bar Harbor is a town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine, United States.

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Bard College

Bard College is a private liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, a hamlet in New York, United States.

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Bennington College

Bennington College is a private, nonsectarian liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont.

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Bennington, Vermont

Bennington is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, in the United States.

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Berea College

Berea College is a liberal arts work college in the city of Berea, in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Berea, Kentucky

Berea is a home rule-class city in Madison County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California.

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Boulder, Colorado

Boulder is the home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Boulder County, and the 11th most populous municipality in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Brattleboro, Vermont

Brattleboro, originally Brattleborough, is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States.

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Bremen

The City Municipality of Bremen (Stadtgemeinde Bremen) is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany, which belongs to the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (also called just "Bremen" for short), a federal state of Germany.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California Institute of Integral Studies

California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) is a private, non-profit university founded in 1968 and based in San Francisco, California.

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Calistoga, California

Calistoga is a city in Napa County, California, United States.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Claremont Colleges

The Claremont Colleges are an American consortium of five undergraduate and two graduate schools of higher education located in Claremont, California, a city east of downtown Los Angeles and west of downtown San Bernardino.

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Claremont, California

Claremont is a city on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County, California, United States, east of downtown Los Angeles.

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College of the Atlantic

College of the Atlantic (COA) is a private, liberal-arts college in Bar Harbor on Mount Desert Island, Maine, United States.

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Curriculum

In education, a curriculum (plural: curricula or curriculums) is broadly defined as the totality of student experiences that occur in the educational process.

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Deep Springs College

Deep Springs College is a small liberal arts two-year college in Deep Springs, California, United States.

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Deep Springs Valley

Deep Springs Valley is a high desert valley in the Inyo-White Mountains of Inyo County, California.

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Democratic education

Democratic education is an educational ideal in which democracy is both a goal and a method of instruction.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Distance education

Distance education or long-distance learning is the education of students who may not always be physically present at a school.

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Education

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits.

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Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts

Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, commonly referred to as Lang, is the seminar-style, undergraduate, liberal arts college of The New School.

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Evergreen State College

The Evergreen State College is a public liberal arts college and a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, located in Olympia, Washington, U.S. Founded in 1967, Evergreen was formed to be an experimental and non-traditional college.

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Fairfield, Iowa

Fairfield is a city in, and the county seat of, Jefferson County, Iowa, United States.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Goddard College

Goddard College is a low-residency college with three locations in the United States: Plainfield, Vermont; Port Townsend, Washington; and Seattle, Washington.

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Hampshire College

Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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Jacobs University Bremen

Jacobs University Bremen (previously International University Bremen, IUB) is an international, private residential university in Vegesack in Bremen-Nord, Bremen, Germany.

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Johnston Center for Integrative Studies

The Johnston Center for Integrative Studies is an alternative education program offered by the University of Redlands in Redlands, California.

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Laurelwood, Oregon

Laurelwood is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon, United States.

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Maharishi University of Management

Maharishi University of Management (MUM), formerly Maharishi International University, is an American non-profit university located in Fairfield, Iowa.

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Marlboro College

Marlboro College is a small, private, academically rigorous liberal-arts college located in Marlboro, Vermont, United States, with an enrollment of 195 students.

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Marlboro, Vermont

Marlboro is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States.

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Minerva Schools at KGI

The Minerva Schools at KGI is a university program that was founded in partnership between the Minerva Project and Keck Graduate Institute (KGI), a member of the Claremont University Consortium.

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Montpelier, Vermont

Montpelier is the capital city of the U.S. state of Vermont and the seat of Washington County.

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Mount Desert Island

Mount Desert Island (MDI) in Hancock County, Maine, is the largest island off the coast of Maine.

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Naropa University

Naropa University is a private liberal arts college in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

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New College of Florida

New College of Florida is a public liberal arts honors college located in Sarasota, Florida, United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio.

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Oberlin, Ohio

Oberlin is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States, southwest of Cleveland.

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Olympia, Washington

Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County. It was incorporated on January 28, 1859. The population was 46,479 as of the 2010 census, making it the 24th largest city in the state. The city borders Lacey to the east and Tumwater to the south. Olympia is a cultural center of the southern Puget Sound region. Olympia is located southwest of Seattle, the largest city in the state of Washington.

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Pitzer College

Pitzer College is a private residential liberal arts college located in Claremont, California, United States.

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Plainfield, Vermont

Plainfield, a town in Washington County, Vermont, United States was incorporated in 1867.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.

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Prescott College

Prescott College is a private liberal arts college in Prescott, Arizona with the motto: "For the Liberal Arts, the Environment, and Social Justice".

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Prescott, Arizona

Prescott (ʼWi:kwatha Ksikʼita) is a city in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.

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Quest University

Quest University Canada (QUC) is a private secular non-profit liberal arts and sciences university in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada.

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Redlands, California

Redlands is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.

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Reed College

Reed College is an independent liberal arts college in southeast Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Sarah Lawrence College

Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in the United States.

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Sarasota, Florida

Sarasota is a city in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Shimer College

Shimer College (pronounced) was an American Great Books college located initially in Mount Carroll, then Waukegan and finally Chicago, Illinois.

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Special education

Special education (also known as special needs education, aided education, exceptional education or Special Ed) is the practice of educating students with an IEP or Section 504 in a way that addresses their individual differences and needs.

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Squamish, British Columbia

Squamish (2016 census population 19,512) is a community and a district municipality in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located at the north end of Howe Sound on the Sea to Sky Highway.

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The New School

The New School is a private non-profit research university centered in Manhattan, New York City, USA, located mostly in Greenwich Village.

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The Sphere College Project

The Sphere College Project is a project to create a high-quality, financially accessible educational institution for adults.

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Ukiah, California

Ukiah (formerly Ukiah City) is the county seat and largest city of Mendocino County, California.

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Ulfborg-Vemb Municipality

Ulfborg-Vemb was a municipality (Danish, kommune) in the former Ringkjøbing County on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark.

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UnCollege

UnCollege is a social movement that aims to change the notion that going to college is the only path to success.

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Union Institute & University

Union Institute & University (UI&U) is a private, non-profit, doctoral-granting, research university that specializes in limited residence and distance learning programs.

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University of Redlands

The University of Redlands is a private, nonprofit university located in Redlands, California, United States, offering both liberal arts and professional programs.

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Unschooling

Unschooling is an educational method and philosophy that advocates learner-chosen activities as a primary means for learning.

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Warren Wilson College

Warren Wilson College (also called WWC) is a private four-year liberal arts college near Asheville, North Carolina, in the Swannanoa Valley.

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Weirton, West Virginia

Weirton (pron. WEER-ton) is a city in Brooke and Hancock counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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Westbrook University

Westbrook University is a diploma mill operating from a residential address in Weirton, West Virginia.

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Yellow Springs, Ohio

Yellow Springs is a village in Greene County, Ohio, United States.

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Yonkers, New York

Yonkers is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of New York, behind New York City, Buffalo, and Rochester.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_universities

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