Berea College
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As one of the nation’s few federally recognized work colleges, Berea College is best known for its revolutionary no-tuition promise, which provides a completely tuition-free liberal arts education to academically high-achieving students with limited financial means. The college boasts exceptionally strong programs in nursing, agriculture and natural resources, and computer science, all supported by a faculty dedicated solely to undergraduate mentoring. The student experience is highly collaborative and egalitarian, shaped by a mandatory Labor Program where every student works at least 10 hours a week on campus to earn money for books, room, and board. This unique work-study model, paired with Berea's historic legacy as the first coeducational and racially integrated college in the American South, fosters a deeply diverse, service-oriented campus culture rooted in social justice and Appalachian heritage.
Wikipedia:Berea College is a private liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky, United States. Founded in 1855, it was the first college in the Southern United States to be coeducational and racially integrated. It admitted non-White students from as early as 1866 until 1904, and again after 1954.
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