Prescott College
- For the Adelaide-based college, see Prescott College, South Australia.
Prescott College is an experiential private liberal arts college in Prescott, Arizona that offers a residential BA program and limited-residency programs for BA, MA and Phd degrees. As an experientially based school, students learn by doing and are required to demonstrate competency in order to earn their degrees. Although the undergraduate program is principally known for its environmental studies and education tracks, there are also programs in Cultural and Regional Studies -Religion and Philosophy, Sustainability Education, Peace Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Economy, Latin American Studies, International Studies-, Human Development, Education, Adventure recreation, English, Visual Arts and Psychology. 95 percent of the residential undergraduate students come from outside Arizona, although nearly a third of the College's Adult Degree Program students live in the Tucson, AZ region and are served by the College's local Center. The College is also part of the EcoLeague, a six-college consortium of colleges with strong environmental studies programs. Undergraduate students can spend two semesters at any of the following colleges at no added cost: Antioch College, Alaska Pacific University, Green Mountain College, Northland College, and College of the Atlantic. Prescott College awards bachelors degrees, limited-residency graduate degrees including Master of Arts and a PhD in Sustainability education. The College is known for its hands-on approach to learning and high student activist enrollment. Students in the community-based Adult Degree and Graduate programs are able to continue living and working in their home communities as they design their own programs with the assistance of faculty, mentors, and/or advisors, and carry out projects in their home communities in fulfillment of their degree requirements. Prescott College has recieved the highest academic rating in the state of Arizona for several years running from The Princeton Review.
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