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As a Catholic school, our core aims are to nourish an ethos based on Gospel values of Love, Wisdom, Integrity, Justice, and Compassion, and to develop a community that is welcoming, caring, and inclusive. As a Catholic School, we describe our key mission as follows: “to develop as a community of faith and learning, providing the highest quality of education and supporting the formation of each young person through the promotion of Gospel values”. To achieve these aims for our school community we need the support of our parents. Only by working together can we ensure that all the young people in our school community achieve their maximum potential. St Thomas Aquinas RC Secondary is a Roman Catholic, co-educational, secondary school based in the West End of Glasgow. With the largest catchment area of any school in Glasgow, it is no surprise we serve a very diverse set of local communities from Drumchapel through Knightswood, Scotstoun, Partick, and into the city center. The continued success of St Thomas Aquinas RC Secondary School is supported by a very committed teaching staff led by an experienced senior leadership team. Language and literacy are of personal, social, and economic importance. Your ability to use language lies at the center of the development and expression of your emotions, thinking, learning, and sense of personal identity. This course allows you to develop skills in listening, talking, reading, and writing, which is essential for learning, life, and work. You will develop your ability to communicate your thoughts and feelings and respond to those of other people. The skills that you develop in English are useful in a wide range of careers these include teaching, editorial, journalism, administration, legal work, or in the arts. The school library contributes to educational attainment and skills for life by providing a welcoming and well-organized environment, in which staff can teach, pupils can learn, and reading for pleasure can be enjoyed by all. The librarian, Miss Sferrazzo, is on hand three days a week to ensure that staff and pupils get the most out of their visits. View full school

Big world vision. Small community culture. Aquinas College offers a dynamic academic experience in a welcoming and supportive Catholic environment. Guided by our outstanding faculty and the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation, students study on our beautiful 83-acre campus in Nashville, Tennessee. As a Catholic educational institution, Aquinas College is an ecclesial community that participates in the Church's evangelizing mission. Specifically, it is a ministry of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia, a religious institute devoted to the apostolate of Catholic education. Aquinas College's approach to education is unique because it is animated by the charism of the Congregation of St. Cecilia. We are a community of religious women engaged in service to educational institutions of all levels in over 50 schools in 30 dioceses and seven countries. We bring practical experience and dedication to Catholic education that flows from our consecration to God and zeal for the spread of the Gospel. Aquinas College's outstanding lay faculty and staff participate with the sister faculty and staff in the Dominican charism of preaching and the salvation of souls in an environment marked by devotion to Truth and charity. Like our patron, St. Thomas Aquinas, we see Christ as the perfect Teacher: formed by this master Teacher through prayer, study, and community, each of us is thus enabled to teach others. Small in size, and yet big in vision, the students at Aquinas are known as individuals and offered opportunities beyond the mass production of larger schools. The student-teacher ratio and the family atmosphere supports the entire student body and significantly enhances their educational experience. We are concerned with the whole person. To say that Aquinas College is a Catholic school is to understand faith as light rather than restriction. This light is shed on all areas of the curriculum but not in a way that is unnatural, superimposed, or intolerant of other beliefs. Faith and reason are not in opposition, but in actuality, they are considered complementary aspects of reality. Aquinas College is committed to Truth, beauty, and goodness. The foundation of education is more than just a preparation for a career, but indeed a preparation for life. Appreciation for that which is truly beautiful takes cultivation and not just exposure. Recognizing Truth requires that one learn how to learn. Much has been said about life in the information age, but what truly makes us human is our ability to consider information according to rational principles. Appreciation for that which is right and beautiful prepares us for attraction to that which is truly good. When goodness is fully embraced, we find true happiness. Aquinas College is focused. Aquinas College is owned and operated by the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia Congregation. Their spirit of joyfulness, unity, and dedication to education permeates campus life and the curriculum. There is a unique sense of camaraderie and vision that unifies the faculty and staff. At most colleges, professors are focused within departments or, in some cases moving in multiple directions. The faculty at Aquinas believe in the College's mission and share a deep commitment to her students. They love to teach, as well as to learn. Each year the faculty and staff undertake a group study where they share insights and attend workshops. What results is an understanding, not just of their subject area but of the big picture we are seeking to deliver to each student. The Mission of Aquinas College is unchanging because Truth itself is unchanging. Taking inspiration from St. Dominic and St. Thomas Aquinas, the College exists to serve the Church by transforming lives for the Gospel of Christ. Aquinas College is a Catholic community of learning in the Dominican Tradition with Christ at its center. The College directs all its efforts to the intellectual, moral, spiritual, and professional formation of the human person in wisdom. Students are formed individually and in the Christian community so that the harmonious integration between faith and reason can permeate every dimension of their lives. Immersed in exploring the relationship between human civilization and the message of salvation, the College community embraces the Dominican imperative to preach the Gospel, serve others, and engage culture in Truth and charity. Aquinas College's academic programs are rooted in the Dominican Tradition, a Catholic spiritual and intellectual tradition entering its eighth century. By the inclusion of philosophy and theology in each course of study, the academic programs facilitate the "dialogue between faith and reason. At Aquinas College, we offer something that cannot be measured merely by a catalog of course offerings. Since we are specialists, with a unique focus on the dignity of the human person from an authentic Catholic perspective, we offer something rooted in Someone: the person of Jesus Christ, Who has a plan for each of us. All of the campus resources and activities help our students discover that plan and equip them with the educational, social, and spiritual support they need to respond generously to God's call. View full university

St. Thomas Aquinas High School, a Roman Catholic, co-educational, college preparatory school, has acquired national recognition for academic and athletic excellence. Founded in 1936, STA has provided quality Catholic secondary education to Fort Lauderdale and the South Florida community for 83 years. Committed to the philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas, STA defines learning as the simultaneous and harmonious development of all facets of the human personality and strives to cultivate each student's achievements. More than 20,000 Alumni continue to share STA pride across the globe. According to the Catholic faith traditions, St. Thomas Aquinas High School, a four-year college preparatory school, educates young men and women. The school seeks to develop each student's God-given talents in a safe and caring atmosphere of sharing and challenge. Through a comprehensive Catholic teachings program, quality education, and personal development, St. Thomas offers to its student's religious experiences, academic challenges, innovative approaches, athletic programs, social and cultural opportunities, and service to others. The entire program focuses on the individual student, made in the image and likeness of God, who receives attention, affirmation, and challenge. We believe that each person in our school community, having been created in God's image and likeness, has dignity and importance. We believe that the entire school community shares the responsibility to help all students develop their God-given talents to the best of their ability. We believe that the entire school community shares the responsibility of creating a safe atmosphere of caring, sharing, and challenge. We believe that students learn most effectively through diversified educational opportunities, religious experiences, athletic programs, social and cultural opportunities, and service. We believe that all individuals in our school community deserve personal attention and recognition. Among its goals, St. Thomas Aquinas High School, in an atmosphere of discipline and order, strives: To model for our students the daily practice of Christian living To invite our students to develop a personal relationship with Jesus Christ To provide a program that serves the spiritual, cultural, physical, and academic needs of a diverse student population To challenge our students to achieve academic success and excellence To instill a sense of STA Raider pride and tradition in our school and community To instill in our student's hunger to learn so that learning becomes a life-long commitment To help identify and develop student leaders through academic and extra-curricular programs To create a dynamic school atmosphere, fostered by an environment of mutual respect and personal attention To develop in our students a social conscience and a commitment to community service To provide opportunities to develop responsibility and self-confidence in our young people and to promote critical thinking and To broaden our program through the STA Innovation Initiative and the use of technology. The STA Leadership curriculum provides students in all grade levels the opportunity to enhance leadership qualities, evaluate personal leadership qualities, identify, develop, and strengthen individual leadership characteristics, learn the benefits of teamwork, and incorporate leadership qualities and the team's concepts into STA involvement. Leadership students evaluate leadership qualities in others and learn how those qualities result in successes and failures. Service to STA and the community is the foundation of non-academic initiatives for all Leadership students. STA Alumni and notable community leaders are regular guests to the Leadership classes. View full school

Thomas Aquinas College believes that to learn is to discover and grow in the truth about reality. It is the truth, and nothing less, that sets men free. And because the truth is both natural and supernatural, the College offers an academic program that aims at both natural and divine wisdom. This curriculum presents the arts and sciences of liberal education as a comprehensive whole. There are no majors, no minors, no electives, and no specializations. The four-year interdisciplinary course of study uses the original writings of the great philosophers, historians, mathematicians, poets, scientists, and theologians of the West. Homer, Herodotus, Plato, Euclid, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Shakespeare, Einstein, and especially St. Thomas Aquinas are among the authors. There are no textbooks. There are also no lectures in the classroom. The curriculum is a sustained conversation in the form of tutorials, seminars, and laboratories guided by tutors who assist students in reading, analyzing, and evaluating these great books. Students develop the lost tools of inquiry, argument, and translation — in critically reading and analyzing texts, in the mathematical demonstration, and laboratory investigation. Equipped with these tools, the graduates are fortified to undertake any study, professional training, or vocation. Grounded in the arts of thinking and with a broad, integrated vision of the whole of life and learning, every subject becomes an open door. Even more critical, alumni are prepared to live well the free citizen and the Christian's life. Thomas Aquinas College is committed to making its program of Catholic liberal education available to accepted students, regardless of financial need. The College receives no subsidy from Church or state. Instead, it relies on contributions from individuals and charitable foundations to make up the difference between what students can pay and the actual cost of their education. Through its donors' generosity, the College can offer financial assistance to young men and women who would otherwise not be able to attend. Nevertheless, the financial resources of the College are limited, and financial aid can be offered only based on demonstrated financial need as determined by the College. Therefore, students and families are expected to make a maximum effort to cover the cost of tuition plus room and board from their resources. If, after assessing his resources, a student finds his financial means insufficient, he should apply to the Financial Aid Office for assistance. The College will meet each student's financial need with a program of loans, Service Scholarship (work-study), and grants. Learning at Thomas Aquinas College is geared toward the education of the whole person, and as such, it is not limited to the confines of the classroom. The Socratic discussions that begin in class spill into the dining commons, the quad, and the residence halls. Concerts and lectures are held on campus throughout the year. The Faith, which informs all classroom learning, manifests itself in every other facet of campus living and daily Mass and adoration to evening rosary and processions. Students can also refresh their minds, their bodies, and their souls through several extracurricular activities. Chief among these are the College's music, theater, and sports programs, but there are others as well. The College employs two student athletic directors who organize the intramural sports schedule throughout the year. Two student activity directors organize on-campus events, including dances, open-mic nights, movies, food drives, and retreats. There are also various student-run organizations such as the de Tocqueville Society (politics), the Pre-Medical Society, a pro-life group, and the Legion of Mary. The life of the College, however, extends not only beyond the classroom but beyond the campus. Students have the great blessing of living in Southern California with its beaches, mountains, and more. Because the College borders the Los Padres National Forest, hiking is a popular activity, as are outings to the ocean, Santa Barbara, and the more refined cultural offerings of Los Angeles. In addition to studying and prayer, there is always something to do at Thomas Aquinas College — something worthwhile, something fulfilling, and something geared toward ever-greater spiritual and intellectual growth. Here beauty, goodness, and truth are indeed one. Thomas Aquinas College came into being in the late 1960s and early 1970s, during a great tumult in the United States that profoundly affected its institutions and its mores. The College's founders, a seasoned group of lay Catholic educators, were concerned about the declining condition of higher education and, in particular, Catholic higher education. Thus, amid this great turmoil and disintegration, and despite the dominant relativism and skepticism in higher education, Thomas Aquinas College came to life. This new College would be dedicated to renewing what is best in the Western intellectual heritage and conducting liberal education under the guiding light of the Catholic Faith. The College welcomed its first freshman class in 1971, and it has remained faithful to its founding mission ever since. View full university

Aquinas Academy is one of the great success stories in independent Catholic education. Since its founding in 1996 as a college preparatory school for students in grades PreK-12, Aquinas has emerged as a recognized leader in academic excellence and character formation. Our graduates are being recruited by some of the nation's top colleges and universities. Our students' performance on standardized achievement tests ranks Aquinas among the very top schools nationwide, public or private. Our students also scored well above average on the National Latin Exam, the college-level Advanced Placement Program tests, and other leading measures of learning and achievement. We are committed to offering students the most excellent education in a Catholic environment faithful to the magisterium. Mass is celebrated daily in the campus chapel, and religion is a core subject in our curriculum. We also offer a full range of competitive sports teams and creative opportunities outside the classroom. Aquinas Academy is a private school formed in the Catholic tradition for boys and girls grades prekindergarten through twelve. The Academy was formed and will be governed by parents who are deeply committed to the moral and intellectual formation of their children, which they recognize as their ultimate responsibility. The Academy is committed to ensuring that this formation occurs in the context of solid Christian teaching and piety, which is utterly loyal to the teaching authority of the Roman Catholic Church. Accordingly, the mission of Aquinas Academy is: To serve parents in carrying out their fundamental responsibility to ensure the moral and intellectual formation of their children To foster in the Academy's students a fuller understanding of, and deep appreciation for, their Catholic Faith in a manner utterly loyal to the teaching authority of the Roman Catholic Church To offer Academy students an intensive traditional curriculum covering all the major areas of the liberal arts and natural sciences, in a rigorous academic program and college preparatory To help each student reach his or her fullest potential and acquire the tools necessary to succeed in higher education and professional life To produce exceptionally well-formed and authentic Catholic leaders whose future accomplishments are of service to others and glory to God amid the world To offer such a program to qualified students from a wide range of social, economic, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. Our curriculum is designed to prepare students for college by helping them achieve mastery over critical academic disciplines. At the same time, we encourage their development of critical and independent thinking skills. Our goal is to equip students with the intellectual resources they need to thrive in an increasingly complex world. Religion and Latin language are core elements of our curriculum. We also pride ourselves on giving students the most exceptional possible education in Western civilization and philosophy. With our small class sizes and dedicated, highly trained faculty, the Aquinas academic program is a proven success. In mathematics, our students are at least one year ahead of their counterparts in other schools. Their overall performance on standardized achievement tests ranks Aquinas among the very top schools nationwide, public or private. Furthermore, our graduates are studying at some of the nation's top colleges and universities. Education at Aquinas Academy is a matter of both the mind and the soul. Religion is a core subject at every grade level, and the formation of students' Catholic identity is a priority in all of our activities. Mass is offered almost every day, and there are regular opportunities for the Sacrament of Confession. Students are also provided many occasions to put their faith into practice through faculty, parent supervised service projects and other charitable outreach to those in need in our community. View full school

Aquinas College, an inclusive educational community rooted in the Catholic and Dominican tradition, provides a liberal arts education with a global perspective, emphasizes career preparation focused on leadership and service to others, and fosters a commitment to lifelong learning dedicated to the pursuit of truth and the common good. Aquinas College is recognized as the exceptional Catholic liberal arts college that prepares individuals for leadership and service careers in developing a sustainable and just global community. Aquinas College students (Saints) care about more than test scores and placement rates (though both are very good). Instead, AQ Saints strive to make our world a better place. As a small Catholic liberal arts college named for Thomas Aquinas, we do not teach our students what to think, but how. Our students learn to pursue truth, seek justice, live with passion, and act with courage. Prayer, study, community, and service are the foundation of all our students do, and our students do great things. If you want to live a life filled with achievement and purpose and meaning, you could be a Saint. Aquinas students receive a four-year liberal arts education with over 100 majors and minors, which prepares them for employment, lifelong learning, and critical thinking. Students make real the vision of the college: Aquinas College is an exceptional Catholic liberal arts college that prepares individuals for careers of leadership and service in developing a sustainable and just global community. Aquinas College will give you the time and space to ponder new ideas and dream boldly and without limit. Moreover, most important, to question the role you can play in making the world a better, brighter place. The big lesson is this: You really can make all the difference in the world. Our graduate students put theory into practice and learn to think strategically in the real world. Small class sizes facilitated by experts in the field allow you to learn more than you ever imagined! That's just part of the AQ advantage. While the program is geared for adult students with adult responsibilities, the educational standards are precisely what you'd expect from a traditional private liberal arts college. You can choose from more than 60 areas of study. Classes are taught in real classrooms by highly experienced professors. Aquinas College is committed to equality. This statement of the college speaks to this commitment, as do our history and heritage. We believe that diversity is a blessing that brings a richness of perspectives to our intellectual, cultural, social, and spiritual lives. All members of our community - faculty, staff, students - will demonstrate respect for each other regardless of our differences. All of us will be sensitive in our actions, words, and deeds. We will demonstrate these sensitivities in our classrooms, curricula, offices, meeting places, and living environments. We will maintain the diversity of our Board of Trustees, faculty, student body, and staff and appreciate the different gifts each brings to this community regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or disability. It is the policy of Aquinas College that no person based on race, color, religion, ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability shall be discriminated against, excluded from participation or employment in, or be otherwise subjected to discrimination under any program or activity for which Aquinas College is responsible. Aquinas College is rooted in the Dominican traditions of prayer, study, community, and service, combined with a deep respect for truth, honesty, and integrity. In this spirit, we strive to create an environment in which integrity is prized and practiced. We expect all community members to uphold these values through honesty, fairness, and respect for others. Peter Wege's principles of Economicology are intertwined with the mission and vision of Aquinas College. Creating a balance between our ecology and the economy is necessary to create a just and sustainable world for the common good. Aquinas College seeks to apply these core principles in a living lab setting, developing students who are agents of change, and setting a global standard of lasting educational change. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Grand Rapids in 1886, Aquinas has a Catholic heritage in the Dominican tradition of working and serving as outlined in the Dominican Charisms. It is lived out by Aquinas students who volunteer their time and talents in the Grand Rapids community and those who travel to places such as Oaxaca, Mexico Appalachia, Kentucky, or several other service-learning locations. The college is named for St. Thomas Aquinas, a 13th-century Dominican scholar and teacher considered to be one of the most brilliant minds of his time and one of the most influential thinkers in the history of the Catholic church.St.Thomas stressed the importance of having an open mind and an open heart and continuously learning from our life experiences. Throughout the years, the Aquinas community has continued to foster a learning environment centered on these principles. The Dominican History within the context of Higher Education dates to the 13th century. Curricula innovation is a hallmark of Aquinas. Each year that educational heritage continues at Aquinas as approximately 2,000 students register for classes in both its undergraduate and graduate programs, which encompass 61 majors, including a signature program in Sustainable Business. View full university

Our vision is that the College aims to form in each youth the true and perfect Catholic. Our mission is to achieve the vision; the College will provide a complete education taking in the whole of human life: Spiritual and physical Intellectual & moral Individual, domestic and social Our Values Faith: To firmly believe in God and all He has revealed to us through His Holy Catholic Church. Hope: To trust in God, His infinite power, His goodness, and His promises. Charity: To love God above all things and neighbor as self for the love of God. Prudence: To form a calm and well-balanced judgment, capable of discerning between truth and error, good and evil, justice and its opposite, then to act by that judgment. Justice: To give to God and to give to man what is strictly owing to them. Fortitude: To undertake & endure difficulties and to show resolve and constancy in doing good. Temperance: To show self-restraint in the face of temptation or desire, even in some permitted things, so that reason governs passion. Our principal is to achieve our vision and mission. In keeping with our values, the College will strive to: Co-operate with Divine Grace to ensure souls are ultimately returned to God. Their ultimate destiny is to develop people with a strong Catholic character, live by principles, and have a deep understanding of the Catholic faith and a genuine love for Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Holy Mother. Foster a love of the traditional liturgy and the perennial devotions of the Catholic faith. Provide an atmosphere of nobility motivated by a love of God, a love of neighbor, and a love of self. Ensure that all teachers, syllabi, and textbooks be regulated by the Catholic spirit under the direction and maternal supervision of the Church Provide a safe and happy environment, following the example of the home of the Holy Family. Rigorously challenge but not overburden the student. Provide an education that challenges students to develop their qualities and their God-given talent to reach their full potential in their spiritual & moral development and their academic, cultural, sporting, creative, and social growth. Promote the acquisition of knowledge in a spirit of academic excellence, with a desire to continue learning and continuing to excel throughout their lives. Develop people with common sense and simplicity based on the eternal principles of justice. Ensure that our teachers possess a healthy interior life, with moral strength and a sense of duty, so they are faithful to their vocation and their profession's dignity. Develop people with true affability, respect, and good manners, with a constant readiness to oblige. Promote self-responsibility, self-determination, and self-discipline. Encourage love, obedience, devotion, and duty to parents and family. Guide parents and co-operate with them in the formation of the student. Equip our students to become productive members of the Church and society and willingly perform their religious and civil duties. Help our students turn their hearts and souls into what makes life worth living and what is right, good, generous, and beautiful. Each school has something that makes it different from another. Why are parents more inclined to send their children to one particular school rather than another? Because of what it offers, its way of teaching, its way of life. In one word: its philosophy. What is the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas College? Its philosophy could be illustrated by the example of the great Englishman that was Saint Thomas More. Saint Thomas is a model of a perfect father who works in his family and children's best interest. Indeed, with his children, Saint Thomas made sure that they received a complete education, religious and profane, an education that helps them develop all their potential. A loving father he was, he drew the best out of his children to achieve happiness. Our school has the same goal. It is committed to helping the students to develop all their qualities and God-given talents. By this means, it is also committed to assisting the parents in their education, which is nothing else than preparing their children to be serious and responsible adults. View full school

The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) is a Dominican institution in Rome's heart. It contains Faculties of Theology, Philosophy, Canon Law, and Social Sciences. The roots of the Angelicum reach the medieval Dominican house of studies in Rome, founded in the XIII century, in which Aquinas taught. It presently offers education in Italian and English for students of about 100 different nationalities. The Angelicum collaborates with academic institutions from all over the world. Among its illustrious students belongs Karol Wojtyła, Saint John Paul II. The Angelicum offers a university education where faith and reason work together. It forms students as virtuous leaders, capable of evangelization and promoting integral human development. Illuminating the present by the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas, students, professors, and staff share in Dominican study, prayer, community, and preaching. From the Apostolic Letter "Motu Proprio" Dominicianus Ordo from St. John XIII, in which he honored with the title of Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, the then International Pontifical Athenaeum Angelicum As to assure an adequate doctrinal formation in universities and religious houses of formation and in order to fulfill our desire that the doctrine of Thomas Aquinas be deepened as a treasure for the development of the Christian life and his writings be made accessible to all since they continue to be relevant to our times and since we are convinced that if the study of the doctrines of the Angelic Doctor continues to be advanced, they will fulfill the determinations of the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council after carefully examining the matter, motu proprio. We decree and promulgate that our apostolic authority designates the International Pontifical Athenaeum Angelicum, legitimately erected and entrusted to the Order of Preachers, now and posterity as the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. The Angelicum is a Dominican University, founded by Order of Friars Preachers to express the Order's Gospel charism of preaching and teaching the Truth of Jesus Christ to all nations. Like the Angelic Doctor himself, today's students learn by opening the classic books of revelation, nature, and experience, which discloses the inner book of the Church's living Tradition, a Tradition of God's Word made flesh and dwelling amongst us. As a Dominican University, we were founded by order of Preachers to give expression to the Order's gospel charism of preaching and teaching the Truth of Jesus Christ to all nations, focusing on the "Four Pillars" for the Order: Rooted in the personal and professional relationship between professors and students. Opening our hearts and minds to pursue and receive the Truth that is Jesus Christ through contemplation. Focused more on the assimilation of wisdom than on the multiplication of knowledge. Through the mastering of the charity of Truth prepared to teach, bear witness, and serve. Community:- Prayer:- Study:- Preach:- The Dominicans who direct the University seek to continue in the same spirit of Truth of St. Dominic and these Four Priorities and Five Frontiers. Inspired by the great doctor saints of the Order –SS. Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and Catherine of Siena – we aim to penetrate the Truth of Jesus Christ and discover and preach that harmony between faith and reason that our broken world needs today. View full university

St. Thomas Aquinas College is a vibrant, student-centered institution located in the New York City Metropolitan area. Founded in 1952 by the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill as a teaching college, we have grown to a 60-acre campus, providing a safe, welcoming place to study more than 100 majors, minors, and specializations in the School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Business and the School of Education. Yet it is just 15 miles north of New York City, giving you quick access to learning, cultural, internship, and career opportunities in one of the world's most exciting cities. Our students come from around the globe and are active inside and outside of the classroom. At STAC, we are dedicated to creating a learning environment that extends beyond the classroom with various clubs and activities, 20 NCAA Division II athletic teams, study abroad opportunities, and a community where students can make lifelong friendships and "stand out" while "fitting in." We are committed to the holistic development of our students. Our state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Bloomberg Professional Laboratory, the Innovation Center equipped with 3D printers, the Kraus Fitness Center, HD Television Studio, Digital Imaging Labs — to name a few — provide our students with top-notch technology and hands-on experience to develop their mind, body, and spirit. St. Thomas Aquinas College focuses on fostering student success. Through the support of our dedicated faculty and administration and our career development services, our graduates join the ranks of our successful alumni, pursuing masters and doctoral degrees, as well as embarking on challenging and rewarding careers. You'll find St. Thomas Aquinas College alumni at Fortune 500 companies in the region's top medical facilities, teaching tomorrow's leaders in classrooms, or working in federal agencies, professional sports organizations, and many other professions. St. Thomas Aquinas College is an independent liberal arts college that provides education at the undergraduate and graduate levels for students from all traditions. In continuing its Catholic heritage and the spirit of its founders, the Dominican Sisters of Sparkill, the College is committed to the principle of enlightening the mind through truth, as exemplified by Thomas Aquinas, and to the Classical Judaeo-Christian ideas which have contributed to the development of humanity. Accordingly, the College is dedicated to developing each student consistent with the individual's resolve to work and achieve. The College, consistent with its commitments, requires each undergraduate to attain a broad foundation in the liberal arts and sciences. The College provides a range of undergraduate majors and graduate programs to help students prepare for careers or further education through a more in-depth focus on a significant field of study. At St. Thomas, we have created a welcoming, caring, and challenging environment for learning. Intensely student-centered academic activities and vigorous student-life programs are purposely combined to enhance the educational process and foster intellectual, moral, social, and spiritual growth. Contained within this environment, St. Thomas Aquinas College assists each student in the effort to develop as an articulate and independent member of society who uses a reasoned approach to all issues, who strives to become a responsible citizen and leader in shaping the diverse world community, who lives in a manner exemplifying the principles of service, mutual respect, and individual responsibility, and who appreciates the value of learning as a life-long endeavor. St. Thomas Aquinas College is a premier liberal art and sciences college in the United States of America. We assert the liberal arts and sciences' vitality to effect within a moral and ethical framework a student's development as an intelligent, curious, and socially engaged citizen. The faculty will optimize student learning through rigorous, innovative, and entrepreneurial undergraduate and graduate programs that will prepare confident and enlightened professionals to succeed in the global community. The College will promote social responsibility through community engagement, providing broad access to our learning resources, and becoming a platform for discourse on regional, national, and global issues. The nurturing college community will promote student development through co-curricular and extra-curricular programs and services. The College is committed to embracing change, personalizing the educational experience, and leveraging emerging technologies to achieve this vision. We live in an exciting, ever-evolving, unpredictable world. From Day One, St. Thomas Aquinas will begin preparing you to play a meaningful role in it. We will give you a solid foundation in the liberal arts and sciences to think and communicate clearly. We will guide you through cutting-edge programs to embark upon a career that matters in today's world. We will introduce you to new cultures, ideas, and experiences — here and around the globe. At St. Thomas Aquinas College, you can take a variety of paths to earn your degree. We offer more than 100 different study programs and dozens of partnerships with graduate programs in the area and across the country. Through a balanced liberal arts education, STAC will prepare you for the career or graduate school program that will shape your future and lead you to success. At St. Thomas Aquinas College, we are committed to helping students find solutions to make College affordable. Over 85% of STAC's student body receives scholarships and grants to help them cover their education costs. We also offer a Net Price Calculator to help you estimate the entire cost of enrolling—from tuition to room and board to the price of books. If you wonder what your options are, our financial aid team is here to help you make informed decisions! Scholarships and grants are two ways to get significant help paying for College without taking out large loans. The process of identifying and applying for different forms of financial aid may feel confusing, but it does not need to be. Our team is here to walk you through the process with helpful information and guidance. The first step is to understand the difference between scholarships and grants better. Most students use a combination of both to help pay for their college education. Scholarships are a form of merit-based financial aid that does not need to be repaid. These can be awarded by a non-profit, a local business, or even an individual. Your high school guidance office should have a list of local scholarships available. We also recommend checking with local organizations, businesses, and even your parent's employer. We encourage students to apply for as many scholarships as they are eligible for and continue applying even after being enrolled and attending school. Our list of scholarships includes some popular options our students have applied for in the past, but there are scholarships for all kinds of interests and accomplishments, so keep searching. View full university

Aquinas College is a Catholic day/boarding school for boys from Kindergarten to Year 12 in the Edmund Rice tradition. We are one of Australia's oldest and most distinguished schools specializing in young men's formation and offers a liberating education based on gospel spirituality within an inclusive community committed to justice, advocacy, and service. Importantly, in partnership with parents, Aquinas College aims through a Christ-centred curriculum, to develop young men of faith, good character, strong intellect, and generous spirit, who will be able to move confidently into the world and who will use their talents and gifts to lead and serve others. Our four tenets of scholarly attainment, spiritual awareness, character formation, and solidarity with others remain at the core of day-to-day activities. Aquinas College is a strong academic school with subjects, teaching styles, and activities that are boy focussed. While subjects are important within themselves, their real value lies in helping each student discover and develop his inner spirit and strength of character – his heart and soul. Creating a moral compass for life, learning about himself, and making a difference is as important as what he learns inside the classroom. We believe success is not what he becomes, but whom he becomes. We are proud of our pupils' successes. We are dedicated to celebrating achievement, creativity, and effort across a vast range of academic and co-curricular pursuits. Our appeal as a school rests in our strong sense of faith community, the values we strive to maintain, our commitment to realizing the potential of every young man in our care, and in providing a balanced education that addresses the academic, social, emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of our pupils' lives. We have the highest expectations for all of our pupils. Our aim is for each to be the best he can be in all that he does. To demonstrate outstanding attendance levels, appearance, courtesy, respect, and work ethic throughout his time at the school. As you browse through this site, and we hope that you will take the time to do so, you will discover that the College's spirit and atmosphere at Mt Henry are unique. To be part of the Aquinas College family, either as a boy or Old Boy, is a life's calling to be the best one can be and accept the responsibility not merely to be successful personally but also to ensure our giftedness success enriches and benefits the lives of others. We welcome all new students and their parents to become part of our school community and share in the realization of our vision for others, and we commit to supporting your son in his journey from boyhood to the young gentleman. The heart of Aquinas College's mission is to form leaders for tomorrow through a life of service based on Christ in the Gospel. Our five values of Faith, Justice, Service, Respect, and Excellence underpin daily life at the College. Aquinas College is a Catholic school for boys in the Edmund Rice tradition. It is a member of Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA), which encompasses all schools with Christian Brothers' heritage. The College acknowledges the significant contribution Christian Brothers have made to Aquinas' traditions since 1894. In the tradition of Blessed Edmund Rice, Aquinas College is committed to fulfilling his vision of providing a Catholic education based on four tenets of Scholarly attainment Spiritual awareness Character formation Solidarity with others Aquinas College aims to educate boys to be the best they can be… for others. As a member of the EREA, Aquinas College is guided by its charter, which identifies four touchstones linked with the charism of Blessed Edmund Rice and which underpin the ministry of the College. Touchstones, which offer a Liberating Education based on a Gospel Spirituality, within an Inclusive Community committed to Justice and Solidarity, guide College direction and define goals, following Blessed Edmund's example. The Aquinas College motto – 'Veritas Vincit' (Truth Conquers) – is at the College's heart. Respect is given to traditional indigenous owners of the land, which is now the College campus. Aquinas College sees itself not as a boys' school but rather a school for boys. As a school for boys, Aquinas focuses on: Learning styles that are great for boys – boys learn well when they can do their learning visually or practically. Understanding that boys usually like to be active and can move. Accepting that boys develop both language and fine motor skills later than girls and removing the unnecessary comparison between genders. Boys can engage in a breadth of subject offerings and interest areas that may not be so readily possible in coeducational environments such as the creative and performing arts domains. Providing an environment and culture that celebrates boys learning and character formation that is specifically targeted to boys' development. Allowing boys to have great male role models in the form of teachers, coaches, and mentors that work with them in the classroom and beyond. Opportunities for boys to form critical friendship bases that serve them well into their lives beyond the campus. Offering a faith experience that is boy-centric in its approach and outcomes. Boys need to have clear, unambiguous boundaries in which they operate that do not inhibit their sense of creativity and inspire them to be good men for others. View full school

Aquinas University of Legazpi (AUL) is a Catholic higher educational institution in Legazpi City, Albay. Known as the Dominican University of Bicol, AUL can trace her beginning on June 8, 1948, when Don Buenaventura de Erquiaga opened the portals of Legazpi Junior Colleges at a modest site with a two-story building on corner Rizal and Mabini Streets in the port district of Legazpi City. About two years later, the school had already expanded to the AUL downtown campus along Peñaranda and Gov. Forbes Streets, this time renamed Legazpi College. It offered elementary, secondary, vocational, tertiary, and graduate studies. AUL offers pre-elementary, elementary, and high school (General Curriculum, Special Program in the Arts, and PAASCU Level III-candidate Science High School), and twenty-three (23) programs (in the College of Arts, Sciences and Education College of Business Management and Accountancy College of Health Sciences and College of Engineering, Architecture and Fine Arts), the newest of which are the UST-supervised BS Pharmacy and BS Medical Technology. The downtown campus hosts the College of Law, the Graduate School, and the Center for Continuing Education. The Aquinas University of Legazpi provides quality education and produces graduates with the human soul. The University is an institution modeled for higher learning. Its curricula are pattered to keep up with the extraordinary demands of the present and future generations. AQ encourages its students to develop critical thinking and excellence in the different fields of study. With its technologically advanced facilities, highly competent faculty, and staff, Aquinas University of Legazpi strives to meet the country's escalating needs by inculcating high-quality education and Christian values. University of Santo Thomas Legazpi is open to students with complete and valid credentials and whose qualifications indicate satisfactory performance. A student seeking admission to the UST-L undergraduate programs must take the UST- Legazpi College Admission Test (U-CAT) as scheduled by the Office of Guidance and Testing. Transferees are advised to see the University Registrar for evaluation purposes. The Center for Continuing Education (CCE) offers post-tertiary courses such as Pre-Bar Review and Certificate in Professional Teaching. The University is also accredited by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to accept international students. The University Academic Research under the Office of Academic Affairs gears toward the institution's strategic development in the context of a dynamically changing multi-layered cultural environment to promote the enhancement of Aquinian Culture, operationalization of Dominican empowerment, and deepening of the Dominican charism. It designs, implements, and processes research systems and procedures that bring out results that contribute to the University's various activities. This makes Aquinas University a proficient center of education. The Academic Research Program is guided basically by the vision that "Aquinas University is a reflective community striving for excellence and creativity in the service of God and humanity." It works toward developing the Filipino nation and the Bikol region by enriching both the Filipino and Bikol cultures, promoting human values, and advocating the social uplift of our people. The Program is guided by the research philosophy framed by the DOMNET Research Committee, to wit: "Research should involve the systematic and continuing search for truth based on reason illumined by faith and permeated with Christian values to increase human knowledge and contribute to the development of the human person in harmony with nature." Culture is a way of life. All efforts, actions, endeavors, fields, creations, programs, and thoughts of man define culture. As a matter of the case, these things make culture comprehensive and historical. It can be said that culture is the human spirit. There is a parallel significance between human culture and human nature. Given such connotation, we need to extrapolate on the different perspectives of culture. It can be argued that 1) Culture is a universal and objective consciousness of a particular collectivity 2) Culture is but progressive development of a collective consciousness 3) Culture is static yet dynamic 4) Culture is a series of reconstruction and deconstruction and 5) Culture is both influential and influenced. These views present culture as a totality. Culture is the "mind" (Grecian) that guides and the "spirit" (Romanticist) that moves people. It serves as a principle from which all human actions are directed and pointed towards a certain level of normativity (Kantian) to establish similarity and promote collectivity. Culture becomes a universal and objective consciousness. It is universal because it transcends particularity and elevates the sense of humanity. It is something from which we share and from which we proceed. It is objective because it becomes a fusion of horizons. There arises a common and creative sense of human identity. Regardless of the level of significance and degree of rightness culture brings to people, there is a certain point that culture, however good or evil it becomes, is the foundation of human life and defines man and his humanity. For more than 67 years of grateful passion and devotion to a life of truth and love out of gratitude, Aquinas University of Legazpi has helped the youth and the young professionals of Bicol realize their full potential to soar high and soar beyond. A conducive place for learning - this is how the Aquinas University of Legazpi is best described. Not only will you find competent professors but get the chance to enjoy its facilities both for learning and recreation. The University is continuously upgrading its facilities. Almost all systems and procedures are computerized, enabling Aquinas to offer high-quality education in a peaceful and secure atmosphere. The Aquinas University of Legazpi welcomes all international students in our Cultural Exchange Program. On this page, you can find all the pertinent information regarding our Exchange Program, including the requirements in availing of the said Program, accommodation, program cost, contents of the Program, study schemes, and a lot more. We hope that you will enjoy your stay at our University even if you are away from your home and your own family. The different offices and departments in AQ will help cater to the different needs of the colleges. This will provide the needed services to assist the colleges inefficiently performing all its responsibilities and tasks. View full university