Customize Your Own Pathway

The Customize Your Own Pathway is for Johnnies who don’t want to be forced into one professional box, preferring to chart their own path by making unique connections between their studies, chosen internships and research opportunities, study abroad experiences, and graduate school. St. John’s serves such students well by providing a holistic and integrated Program of Study across the humanities, science, and mathematics.

Revel in a Curriculum That Spans Time & Disciplines

Curricular Pathways

At St. John's, you will study more than 200 texts from across 3,000 years of knowledge across history, literature, philosophy, science, mathematics, politics, theology, theater, music, art, rhetoric, writing, and more. Explore a sampling here.

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Essays in Science

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The Metamorphosis of Plants

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A Room of One's Own

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Wealth of Nations

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Inventions

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Four Plays by Aristophanes

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Don Quixote

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Othello

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Evolution and Genetics

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Tristan and Isolde

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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

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The Divine Comedy

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Fire Next Time

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Nicomachean Ethics

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The Federalist Papers

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The Art of Manet

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Operas

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Paradise Lost

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Sophocles

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Course of Pure Mathematics

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Second Treatise on Government

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Pride and Prejudice

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The Peloponnesian War

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Sonnets

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St. Matthew's Passion

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Confessions

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Song of Solomon

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Meditations

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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

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On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals

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Stomping the Blues

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The Prince

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Principia Mathematica

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Studies in Animal and Human Behavior

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Quartets

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Cellular Pathology

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Middlemarch

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Poems

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Democracy in America

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Sex-Linked Inheritance

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The Periodic Law of Chemical Elements

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Elements of Euclid

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The Social Contract

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Democracy and Education

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Constitution of the United States of America

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The Republic

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Beyond Good and Evil

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On Generation and Corruption

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Capital

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History of Rome

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Selected Works of Frederick Douglass

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Essays of Montaigne

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Sonnets

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Essays on the Theory of Numbers

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Selected Poems

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The Origins of Totalitarianism

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Treatise on Human Nature

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Plutarch's Lives

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Speeches of Abraham Lincoln

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Philosophy of Nature

Select an Internship That is Right for You

Professional Pathways

Every student at St. John’s is guaranteed a college-funded internship or research fellowship if they work with our career offices. Discover institutions at which we often place our students and where our alumni are currently employed.

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Google Gemini

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Project Wildlife

Meow Wolf

Harvard Divinity School

Magee Women's Research Institute

London School of Economics

The New York Times

NASA

Lawyers for Civil Rights

Maryland Office of the Public Defender

National Geographic Magazine

DNCA Architects

Dow Jones News Fund

Ki Smith Gallery

The Santa Fe Opera

New York Public Library

The Business Journals

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Museum of International Folk Art

Los Alamos National Labs

OpenPath Products

Arete Wealth

US Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico

NYU Press

University of Chicago

City of Hope Cancer Center

National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration

American Enterprise Institute

US Department of Justice

Human Rights Watch

American Civil Liberties Union

Wharton Business School

State of Maryland

Rome Institute of Liberal Arts

National Institutes of Health

Projects for Peace

Howard University

Fulbright Program

Americorps

Great Hearts Academy

Catholic University of America

New Mexico Department of Health

Think New Mexico

Google Gemini

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Project Wildlife

Meow Wolf

Harvard Divinity School

Magee Women's Research Institute

London School of Economics

The New York Times

NASA

Lawyers for Civil Rights

Maryland Office of the Public Defender

National Geographic Magazine

DNCA Architects

Dow Jones News Fund

Ki Smith Gallery

The Santa Fe Opera

New York Public Library

The Business Journals

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Museum of International Folk Art

Los Alamos National Labs

OpenPath Products

Arete Wealth

US Attorney's Office, District of New Mexico

NYU Press

University of Chicago

City of Hope Cancer Center

National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration

American Enterprise Institute

US Department of Justice

Human Rights Watch

American Civil Liberties Union

Wharton Business School

State of Maryland

Rome Institute of Liberal Arts

National Institutes of Health

Projects for Peace

Howard University

Fulbright Program

Americorps

Great Hearts Academy

Catholic University of America

New Mexico Department of Health

Think New Mexico

Study Abroad & Gain Cross-Cultural Skills

Global Pathways

St. John’s funds and facilitates study-abroad experiences at institutions including Rome Institute for the Liberal Arts, Marchutz School of Art in France, Incheon National University in South Korea, and Boya College of Sun Yat-sen University in China.

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    Italy

    Rome Institute of Liberal Arts

    The Rome Institute of Liberal Arts offers a rare opportunity to explore the art and architecture of Rome in order to articulate fundamental questions across disciplines. Discussion-based classes on philosophy, literature, and history are designed together with excursions led by art historians and classicists throughout Italy’s artistic heritage.

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    France

    Marchutz School of Art

    The Marchutz School of Art in France strengthens students’ awareness of the relationship between perception and artistic expression. The Marchutz program welcomes people at all levels of art experience who want to look deeply into nature, the artistic tradition, and themselves.

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    South Korea

    Incheon National University

    St. John’s special relationship with South Korea offers multiple opportunities for study and research in South Korea. Incheon National University is foremost among them, with its Great Books Center providing study programs, internships, and exchange opportunities between our colleges. Opportunities also exist at Kangwon National University, Hallym University, and Yonsei University.

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Italy

Rome Institute of Liberal Arts

The Rome Institute of Liberal Arts offers a rare opportunity to explore the art and architecture of Rome in order to articulate fundamental questions across disciplines. Discussion-based classes on philosophy, literature, and history are designed together with excursions led by art historians and classicists throughout Italy’s artistic heritage.

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France

Marchutz School of Art

The Marchutz School of Art in France strengthens students’ awareness of the relationship between perception and artistic expression. The Marchutz program welcomes people at all levels of art experience who want to look deeply into nature, the artistic tradition, and themselves.

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South Korea

Incheon National University

St. John’s special relationship with South Korea offers multiple opportunities for study and research in South Korea. Incheon National University is foremost among them, with its Great Books Center providing study programs, internships, and exchange opportunities between our colleges. Opportunities also exist at Kangwon National University, Hallym University, and Yonsei University.

Consider if Grad School is Right for You

Graduate Pathways

If you want to attend grad school, our partnerships connect Johnnies to multiple career pathways. Discover fast-track admissions opportunities, discounted tuition, expedited degrees, and other benefits available only to Johnnies.

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Maryland Institute College of Art

Includes MFA and MA degrees in filmmaking, graphic design, illustration, curatorial practice, community arts, and social design.

University of Maryland

Includes a JD and Master of Liberal Arts dual degree for Johnnies.

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John's Hopkins University

Includes graduate degrees for Johnnies in business, finance, healthcare, information systems, marketing and more.

The University of Chicago

Includes graduate degrees for Johnnies in social science, international relations, data science, computer science, engineering, and more.

Boston University

Includes a Master of Public Health degree for Johnnies.

Loyola University of Maryland

Includes a Master of Business Administration for Johnnies.

Notre Dame of Maryland

Includes a Master of Arts in Teaching and a teaching certification for Johnnies.

St. John’s College

Includes an MA in Eastern Classics, which explores the great texts of India, China, and Japan.

Maryland Institute College of Art

Includes MFA and MA degrees in filmmaking, graphic design, illustration, curatorial practice, community arts, and social design.

University of Maryland

Includes a JD and Master of Liberal Arts dual degree for Johnnies.

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John's Hopkins University

Includes graduate degrees for Johnnies in business, finance, healthcare, information systems, marketing and more.

The University of Chicago

Includes graduate degrees for Johnnies in social science, international relations, data science, computer science, engineering, and more.

Boston University

Includes a Master of Public Health degree for Johnnies.

Loyola University of Maryland

Includes a Master of Business Administration for Johnnies.

Notre Dame of Maryland

Includes a Master of Arts in Teaching and a teaching certification for Johnnies.

St. John’s College

Includes an MA in Eastern Classics, which explores the great texts of India, China, and Japan.

Earn Career-Enhancing Credentials

Credentialing Pathways

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eCornell offers Johnnie discounts and is our preferred credentialing partner.

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Alumni in the Field

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Rose Carmen Goldberg

Deputy Attorney General Office of the California Attorney General Lecturer, Berkeley Law School

“St. John’s nurtured my curiosity, and this inquisitiveness informs my work as a public interest lawyer every day.”

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Roger Carstens

U.S. SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL ENVOY FOR HOSTAGE AFFAIRS

“St. John’s allowed me to tie together a lot of the things that I’ve been pondering for years and make sense of them.”

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Lydia Polgreen

OPINION COLUMNIST, NEW YORK TIMES

“I realized I wanted to look at and question the world just like I did at St. John’s. And to continue my inquiry because the world is open to interpretation. I had to go places and see things for myself.”

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Dr. Martin Gaudinski

MEDICAL DIRECTOR CLINICAL TRIALS PROGRAM, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

“The reason I go to work in the morning is to create vaccines to keep people doing what they do best—living, and living well.”