Undergraduate Program (B.A.)
Not a single wasted term
Two years of disciplined intellectual formation. Two years of focused mastery and consequential work, culminating in something you have built and defended.
Intellectual Foundations
All students take 15 core courses covering the Great Books, history, politics, economics, science, math, technology, and the American experiment.
Specialization
Choose your focus area. Complete advanced coursework. Pursue electives and specialized sequences in economics, literature, computer programming, or law. Take small seminars with distinguished visiting professors.
The Polaris Project
A four-year journey to launch a startup, pursue scholarly research, or complete a hands-on apprenticeship. Present what you've built by graduation.
Bachelor Of Arts In Liberal Studies
the core
Intellectual Foundations
Every student takes the same 15 courses together, building a shared foundation in the ideas, history, and methods that shaped the West.
Civilization and Its Crises
How regimes rise and fall. What holds a civilization together. What threatens human flourishing. What makes the West distinctive.
The American Experiment
From ancient debates on justice and regime to the founding of the United States. Why America succeeded. Why communists and fascists opposed it.
Religion and Modernity
Faith, reason, and science. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Whether modernity is compatible with religion.
Math, Data, and The Foundations Of Science
Quantitative reasoning. Modeling problems. Reasoning with uncertainty. Separating signal from noise. How technology works and how it can be abused.
Economics, Incentives, and Institutions
How incentives and institutions shape human behavior.
Close Reading and Good Writing
You learn to write clear English without dependence on AI, argue honestly, and read difficult texts with care.
specialization
Mastery and Building
Choose one of three programs—Humanities, Social Science, or Science & Technology—and go deep, building real expertise while advancing a major project of your own.
Humanities
For students drawn to philosophy, religion, literature, and the arts. You study the development of Western culture from the ancients to the moderns, with real exposure to at least one non-Western civilization. You learn how ideas, stories, and works of art were shaped by great human genius—and how they continue to shape politics, morality, and everyday life today. You won't just read "about" great works; you'll live inside them, wrestle with rival accounts of truth. The result is the rarest skill in modern life: the ability to think clearly about what matters most.
Social Science
You master micro and macroeconomics, data science, and hands-on finance alongside deep study of U.S. institutions, elections, corporations, and law—with historical grounding that's more empirical, more modern, and more American than the core. Distinguished visiting professors from courts, think tanks, and government bring the real world into the classroom.
Science and Technology
Built to make you fluent in the mathematical and computational languages of the modern world. You move through a rigorous math core—calculus, differential equations, probability, statistics, linear algebra, optimization—then into programming, data structures, machine learning, and statistical learning, alongside a serious physics sequence with electives in AI and robotics. This is real technical training tied directly to projects and UATX's industry partnerships.
North Star
The Polaris Project
Polaris is a four-year project where students take on a real problem and build something around it. Starting first year, they work with mentors, test ideas in the world, and push their project further as their skills sharpen. Every UATX graduate leaves with proof of what they can do.
Define a problem
Students find a problem and shape a project around it.
Build and Test
Students start building early and keep refining, getting feedback from mentors, peers, and real users who challenge them to take it further.
Deliver Something Real
By graduation, they will have produced a serious piece of work — whether a startup, a prototype, a research contribution, or a creative production.
What Sets Us Apart
What Makes This Different
Shared Intellectual Core
Everyone takes the same 15 foundational courses. Conversations go deep, fast. You already share a canon: Plato, Tocqueville, the American Founders, the ideological experiments of the 20th century.
High Standards, Clearly Measured
Published President's List (top 5%) and Dean's List (next 10%) every term. Rigorous grading. Handwritten exams. No inflated curves or Al-generated essays.
Integrated Disciplines
Economists read novels. Humanities students learn probability. Science students study political philosophy. Whole thinkers who can discuss machine learning and American politics in the same conversation.
Designed For Builders
No tuition means you're not a customer to be kept happy. You're an investment to be pushed. The curriculum assumes you want to do hard things: start companies, build technologies that strengthen the country, lead institutions, and defend the free civilization that makes all of it possible.
By Graduation, You Will Have
The ability to think, write, and read deeply—plus broad technical expertise; high competence in one academic specialty; and a major project you've actually shipped into the world.
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The future of our institutions will be shaped by the students educated today. UATX exists to form leaders prepared to meet that responsibility.