Franklin & Marshall College
Franklin & Marshall College (F&M) is a private liberal arts college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1853 on the merger of Franklin College and Marshall College, F&M is named for Benjamin Franklin, who gave the college its first endowment, and John Marshall.
Shadek-Fackenthal Library (1934-35), the youngest building in the district
Old Main, Franklin & Marshall College, c. 1910
Liberal arts colleges in the United States
Liberal arts colleges in the United States are undergraduate institutions of higher education in the United States that focus on a liberal arts education. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise defines liberal arts as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational, or technical curriculum". Generally, a full-time, four-year course of study at a liberal arts college leads students to earning the Bachelor of Arts or the Bachelor of Science.
Pomona College, a liberal arts college in Claremont, California
Bates College, the first coeducational liberal arts college in New England, and one of the first to dismiss the ACT/SAT requirement
Sarah Lawrence College dismissed their standardized test scores requirements in the early 2000s.