Belmont Abbey College

At Belmont Abbey College, students quickly discover that we seek to educate the whole person, to strike a crucial balance between the specialized knowledge required of a specific discipline, and the broad education we expect of all our graduates. Classes are taught by seasoned professors, with more than 80 percent of the faculty holding doctoral degrees from institutions that include Marquette, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Chicago, Rutgers, Boston College, UNC Chapel-Hill, and the University of Virginia. Classes themselves generally range from 10 to 20 students, making it easy to jump into the dialogue, voice opinions, ask difficult questions, and get direct answers.

The Abbey curriculum is divided equally between core requirements and major courses. Our core curriculum, rooted in the liberal arts tradition, gives all students the intellectual skills and moral discernment needed for success in all professions and, more importantly, in living the good life in the best and deepest sense of the word. The core curriculum culminates in a course in Ethics and one course in the "Great Books," which challenge students to apply the insights they have acquired in their college career to some of the perennial issues faced by the great minds of the past.

Each major provides a broad introduction to the student’s chosen field of study, which prepares students either for graduate studies or for a career, with the flexibility to adapt to rapid change and to continue a lifetime of learning. To academically gifted students of any major, the Honors Program offers especially challenging intellectual work and research together with opportunities to attend a variety of cultural events in and near Charlotte.