Tucked into the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, St. John’s College Santa Fe sits on 250 acres in the most beautiful part of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the country’s oldest capital city. Just steps away from hiking trails, a short walk to half a dozen museums, and a longer walk to hundreds of galleries, the Santa Fe campus—which is 7,300 feet above sea level—is the perfect blend of mountain living and access to culture, making it one of the best colleges in New Mexico. Learn why St. John’s College in Santa Fe is a top liberal arts college.

St. John’s distinctive liberal arts curriculum and educational practices have long given it a highly respected place among American colleges and universities. Its strong commitment to collaborative inquiry and the study of original texts makes St. John’s College a particularly vibrant community of learning. Through close engagement with the works of some of the world’s greatest writers and thinkers—from Homer, Plato, and Euclid to Nietzsche, Einstein, and Woolf—undergraduate and graduate students at St. John’s College grapple with fundamental questions that confront us as human beings. As they participate in lively discussions and throw themselves into the activity of translating, writing, demonstrating, conducting experiments, and analyzing musical compositions, St. John’s students learn to speak articulately, read attentively, reason effectively, and think creatively.