<p>The Jesuit tradition goes back to the Order’s founding in 1535. While its prescribed course of study, the Ratio Studiorum is a malleable document, in that it is adaptable to the times, it does uphold its basic tenets – among which is that [undergraduate] education should be of the general, well rounded type (even as it delves into many disciplines), rather than the specialized, profession oriented type found at other colleges. Jesuit education is a liberal arts experience in the truest sense. It prizes the liberal arts and they serve as the strong foundation to subsequent, professional studies in graduate school.</p>
<p>Another keen aspect of this wonderful philosophy of education is that students so trained are expected to “be men and women for others”…to go out into the world and use their rigorous training to do good for society… to be there for others. It is a refreshing and much needed tonic to the events of the last several decades, filled with innumerable instances of greed and gluttony — some of the basest attributes of man.</p>
<p>If you like the idea of service to others rather than to your self – a noble endeavor, indeed – BC is the place!</p>
<p>Please go to the Catholic Encyclopaedia (see link below) for a fuller description of the Ratio Studiorum.</p>
<p>[CATHOLIC</a> ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ratio Studiorum](<a href=“http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12654a.htmo]CATHOLIC”>http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12654a.htmo)</p>