Thomas Aquinas College

Thomas Aquinas College is a Roman Catholic liberal arts college offering a single integrated academic program. It is located in Santa Paula, California in Ventura County, with a second campus opening in Northfield, Massachusetts in 2018.It offers an education system with courses based on the Great Books and seminarmethod. It has school accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, a regional accrediting board for California and Guam.It is endorsed by The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College.

In December 2017 the Thomas wildfire, the largest of the seasons wildfires, started near, and was named after, the college.

Thomas Aquinas offers one degree program: Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts.

As a matter of principle, to ensure the institution's autonomy, the school does not accept any direct government funding; neither does it receive funding from the Catholic Church. Rather, it offers need-based scholarships funded by the private donations of individuals and foundations.

Thomas Aquinas offers one degree, a bachelor of arts in liberal arts. This is an integrated liberal arts curriculum made up primarily of the Great Books of the Western Tradition, with order of learning emphasized in the structure of the curriculum. Much of the first two years of the four-year program is devoted to the Trivium (logic, rhetoric, and grammar) and the Quadrivium (geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music.)[6] Natural science, philosophy, and theology are studied all four years. Papers are assigned in the various subject areas throughout the year; fourth-year students produce a senior thesis and defend it before a panel of faculty members.