Learning, character, faith, and freedom: these are the inseparable purposes of Hillsdale College.

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Classical Liberal Arts

Study What Really Matters

The Character of Our Civic Conversation

The Good, The True, The Beautiful

Where All This Leads You

Developing Minds. Improving Hearts.

Hillsdale College is a small, Christian, classical liberal arts college in southern Michigan that operates independently of government funding. Our students come from nearly all of the United States and a dozen foreign countries, and drawn to the challenge of a Hillsdale education, they grow in heart and mind by studying timeless truths in a supportive community dedicated to the highest things.

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These free, not-for-credit courses are taught by Hillsdale College faculty and are patterned after the education offered on the Hillsdale College campus. They aim to provide students with an education that pursues knowledge of the highest things, provides insight into the nature of God and man, forms character, and defends constitutional government.

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The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour is a one-hour weekly radio show created to advance the efforts of Hillsdale College. Hear the arguments and debates that make up the liberal arts education.

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For more than 170 years, Hillsdale College has promoted “the diffusion of sound learning” as the best means of preserving “the blessings of civil and religious liberty and intellectual piety.” Your support is essential to the College. To maintain our independence in every regard, Hillsdale does not accept one penny of state or federal taxpayer funding—even indirectly in the form of student grants and loans.

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Professors choose Hillsdale for the same reasons you do.

Our faculty prize having the time and freedom to give full due to big ideas (yours included). From your very first class, you’ll know your professors believe heart and soul in helping you become a careful reader, an analytical thinker, and an able writer.

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In my classes, I therefore try to fill my students' lives with as much goodness, truth and beauty as I can.

Dr. Daniel Coupland

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"I think literature, like all arts, speaks not simply to the rational part of people but to the whole person.

Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin

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The connections you make here endure. The lessons you learn here prepare you to tackle challenges throughout your professional career. And the character and virtue you develop here will help you lead a good life, in every sense of the word.

Learning, character, faith, and freedom: these are the inseparable purposes of Hillsdale College.

A Journey Together

Study What Really Matters

The Good, The True, The Beautiful

Developing Minds. Improving Hearts.

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