<p>I live in Kentucky, which has a surprisingly large number of small, private, liberal arts colleges of high quality. I attended Centre. I loved my classes and my professors. I didn’t pledge a sorority, so my social life was very limited. If you don’t plan to join a sorority, you probably don’t want to attend Centre. </p>
<p>Transylvania University, Georgetown College, Campbellsville University, Asbury University, Berea College and Alice Lloyd are all good possibilities. </p>
<p>Berea and Alice Lloyd are both tuition free, but you probably won’t be able to get in if your family is too wealthy for you to qualify for their work-study programs.</p>
<p>If I were a college student today, I would only consider a tuition free college (if they would take me, but I might be too solidly middle class) or Davidson College, in South Carolina. Davidson is the only Southern liberal arts college that is dedicated to having all of its students graduate debt-free, although it is not technically tuition-free. </p>
<p>Luckily, I was an undergrad in the 1980s, before it got so expensive. I wouldn’t be able to afford Centre College if I were a college student in 2013.</p>
<p>A liberal arts education is a wonderful experience, intellectually and socially, but not worth going into debt for. It won’t really pay for itself. </p>
<p>If you really want a “liberal” school, most southern “liberal arts” colleges aren’t politically liberal. They are liberal in the classical sense, not in the modern political sense. </p>
<p>If you definitely want to go to college only with Democrats, then Berea College is more “liberal” politically than most southern liberal arts colleges, but it is still very “southern.” </p>
<p>College of the Ozarks (in Missouri) is also a tuition-free, conservative, Christian, liberal arts college.</p>
<p>There’s a list of 10 different tuition free colleges here, if you’re interested in pursuing that avenue:</p>
<p>[10</a> Colleges and Universities with $0 Tuition](<a href=“http://diplomaguide.com/articles/10_Colleges_and_Universities_with_0_Tuition.html]10”>10 Colleges and Universities with $0 Tuition)</p>
<p>I wouldn’t go into debt for any degree - not even a professional degree in medicine or law. You wouldn’t believe how many miserable doctors and lawyers drag themselves to work every day, but don’t have the option to change careers because they have too much student debt to pay off. </p>
<p>Best advice for any student: avoid debt like the plague. You’ll have more career options, and much greater chance of happiness later on, if you avoid debt.</p>