Are there colleges that do not require math or very little math? This is the only subject that is difficult for my college student. We live in N.J., and the student is open to taking online classes from out-of-state universities if necessary. Thank you.
Check your community colleges.
There are majors that require little math. Sometimes just statistics. You’ll need to study the general education requirements at many schools. Some will be less quant that others
Look at less competitive schools - like Mich State and Arizona or some regionals and directionals for starters
But an education without any quantitative competency will put your student at a delta for a career in many cases today.
It’s likely going to be very major dependent. What is your child interested in studying?
I have friends whose kids took math at a CC over the summer as their only class, and were able to use the credit at their 4 year university to satisfy their math requirement.
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What level math has he completed with a C or better?
You might do a match me so we can know budget, area of the country desired, overall stats, major etc
Do you mean required for admission to the college or required to graduate from the college?
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Most colleges will have some kind of requirement for something mathematically based, but have a look at colleges with open curriculum options, or flexible cluster-type requirements, where in there are a lot of options within a cluster of courses. You can google a list. Many are highly competitive for admission and they tend to be private.
I feel your student’s pain. I always struggled with math and in college, I met the math requirement by taking a semester of something called Liberal Studies math. All I remember is learning how many different ways you could combine the letters in the word Australia 
. It was actually kind of fun.
I attended a public university. If public uni’s are an option, see if the one you have in mind has a lot of variety.
Rutgers, for example, offers this: 01:640:103 - Topics in Mathematics for the Liberal Arts
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IF you want to know how many years of HS math is needed for admission to a college you can google the school’s common data set.
IF you want to know how much math the student will need to take in college, you can look at the online course catalog and distribution requirements. Note that many colleges with distribution requirements do offer math classes geared towards non-math oriented students.
As an aside, not every college will accept courses taken online through another college or at a CC. Once a student commits to a college, any outside courses should be pre-approved (in writing).
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@haledonite it looks like you are looking for colleges with courses of study that don’t require a lot of math. Is that correct?
Is your student a HS senior? What is the highest level of math they took in HS.
I was a good math student back in the student back in the Stone Age. BUT when I chose my major, I looked at the course requirements and specifically chose a major that didn’t require math…or so I thought! I had to take statistics both in undergrad and graduate school. It was fine. For reference, I didn’t complete algebra two.
If you are asking about colleges requirements for admission in terms of math courses…that has a different answer.
Please clarify what you are asking!
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OP referred to their student as a “college student”
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You mentioned that your child is a currently a college student. Is the problem that the college he/she attends requires a good number math classes, and he/she is failing those math classes?
If so, transferring to another college is a not a typical solution. If tutoring, extra studying and similar are not going to prevent failing; then the student might consider a different major that requires less math. Few colleges require a large number of math courses or high level math as a general education requirement for graduation. However, general ed requirements do vary, including a good portion of colleges with no traditional math general ed requirements (some non-math courses can often substitute for quantitative reasoning type gen ed course).
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Then this student needs to look at the courses of study where they are attending college. And find out IF the college requires some kind of math course for graduation.
As noted above, there are plenty of majors that are very math lite.
Also, if this student is already enrolled in college, they need to find out IF their college will accept an online course from elsewhere towards graduation…some places just won’t.
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Open curriculum colleges are the first place I’d look. Brown university for example does not (or at least didn’t used to) require math if not required for one’s major, as far as I know.
I’m not getting a “viable candidate for Brown” vibe from the OP, but there are much less competitive open-curriculum colleges as well.
What’s unclear is whether the student is already in college (which is what the post appears to say) or whether the OP really means their child is a prospective college student who is deciding where to apply. If it’s the latter, it would be helpful to have more information about the student (stats, academic interests, budget) in order to make suggestions. If it’s the former, then we need more clarification as to what the OP is asking for. (Transfer options? Places to take online classes that would meet requirements at the current school?)
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Of course there are many colleges which require no math to graduate. But since this student is already in college, it would seem to be a moot point - unless s/he is considering transferring?
You may be right about their ability to get into Brown. I was mainly making the point that open curriculum schools would be the first place I’d look, and Brown was the example of one I knew that didn’t require any math (at least at one point).
If the student is already in college, it seems an odd question OP asked that would surely need more explanation. Hopefully they come back to clarify.
I think OP needs to come back and update - is this already a student like they are saying…or is this a future student - which is how some of us interpreted?
If a current student, what are they majoring in and where - maybe that impacts - but then again, maybe it’s too late.
Hope they come back and define better the situation with more detail.
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Most schools do, but they have a variety of classes to choose from, including those that kids who aren’t super successful in math can do fine in. Most schools require a group of “generals” that include 1 math, 1 science w/lab, etc.