Developing free and
self-reliant individuals

An education that actively and engagingly prepares you to thrive–
intellectually, morally, socially, and practically. Opening September 2025.

In the meantime, you’re invited to apply to our Summer Seminar (July 20-27, 2024).

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Introducing

Reliance College

Reliance is a residential college that offers a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts. Our goal is for our students to become self-reliant individuals, able to defend and advance a free society.

Benefits of attending Reliance college

Independence

Independence and self-confidence to follow your own path.

skills

Creative reasoning, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Mentoring

Extensive, well-mentored practical work experience.

Portfolio

Create a portfolio that  demonstrates your value to others.

Reliance College Programs

Great Books Conversations

Join us weekly for enlightening conversations about classic texts that have extraordinary relevance to modern life. Our aim: respectful conversations that help you judge ideas and issues for yourself. Always free to attend with reading materials provided.

Jefferson Dinner Series

Thomas Jefferson was famous for holding gourmet dinners with wine, at which guests sat in the round as equals and discussed riveting topics triggered by great questions. Join Reliance College for remarkable evenings of conviviality, learning, and discussion.

Enlightenment & Revolutionary France

Learn from the greatest thinkers and worthwhile modern works in an overseas excursion filled with riveting conversation, explorations of historical sites, and convivial meals. Delve into pivotal texts in the ancient cities where they were written with a group of thinkers. 

Reason & Love Summer Seminar

Radically strengthen your reasoning power and autonomy in a week-long seminar of collaborative conversations about topics ranging from physics to philosophy, sculpture to sociology; see how ideas shape the world around you in thought-provoking outings.

Our Promise

An Engaging Education That Prepares You To Thrive

Deeply informed by the individualized Montessori philosophy of education as applied to young adults, the curriculum uses the Great Books and influential modern texts, including the usually-neglected thinkers on liberty.

“It makes no small difference, then, whether we form habits of one kind or of another from our very youth; it makes a very great difference, or rather all the difference.”

Aristotle

Testimonials

What Students and Parents Say

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