Northeast Catholic College

Northeast Catholic College seeks to serve her students, their families, the Church, and society by providing a premier Catholic, Great Books, liberal arts education that is faithful to the magisterium and rooted in a vibrant liturgical and sacramental culture, calling all within her collegiate community to a life of intellectual excellence, service, and faithful discipleship.

Northeast Catholic College occupies 135 beautiful acres on Mt. Kearsarge in Warner New Hampshire. The college is a Catholic liberal arts institution that offers its students an education rooted in the liberal arts and informed by the Catholic intellectual traditions, an education that is faithful to the magisterial teachings of the Catholic Church and based on the integration of faith and reason.

The college is recognized as a Catholic college by the Diocese of New Hampshire and serves students from New England and from across the United States. The college welcomes transfer and international students.

Northeast Catholic College has been granted Candidacy for Accreditation status by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc. through its Commission on Institutions of Higher Education. Candidacy for Accreditation is a status of affiliation with the Commission which indicates that the institution has achieved initial recognition and is progressing toward accreditation. Candidacy is not accreditation nor does it assure eventual accreditation. Inquiries regarding the status of an institution’s accreditation by the New England Association should be directed to the administrative staff of the college or university.

As our mission statement indicates, the mission of the college is an integrated one, consisting of a primary academic dimension and a spiritual dimension. The latter nourishes and orients the academic dimension while providing the animating principles of the larger collegiate culture and its ultimate purpose. Though these two aspects may be distinguished conceptually, in the lived experience of our community they are one. The natural outgrowth of this mission is a collegiate culture characterized by integral formation for human flourishing oriented to vocation through the free giving of self: “Man can fully discover his true self only in a sincere giving of himself”

Thus, the quest for self-knowledge, an engine of liberal education in its classical articulation, finds its expression in a key document of the Church’s most recent ecumenical council, a council that also gave birth to Northeast Catholic College and its integrated mission.

Established as a residential, Catholic liberal arts college and located in Warner, New Hampshire, the college seeks—through the rigorous study and discussion of primary texts and through its vibrantly Catholic student life—to call our students to the life-long pursuit of intellectual and moral virtue, following Christ who is the source of all virtue.

Through our Career Pathways Program, the college prepares students for internships and pre-professional programs, coaches them in developing their resumes and preparing for interviews, offers professional seminars in the skills needed to succeed professionally, and assists students in landing their first job after college. The college sees this as not only the right thing to do for our students and their families, but also as a logical extension of our mission: to launch faithful, well-formed students into our culture who will live their faith in the world as wise and generous citizens.

The education we offer at the college is not for the faint of heart: the journey to freedom— intellectual and spiritual freedom—is arduous. But no one at the college undertakes this journey alone. The students, the faculty, and the larger community of the college support one another within and outside the classroom as we seek to become fully human and fully free, thriving in the light of Truth. We hope you will consider what we offer and join us on the journey.

At its core, liberal education at Northeast Catholic College is animated by a classical understanding of human nature and the human telos, rooted in and shaped by ancient philosophy and the Catholic intellectual and spiritual traditions.

Thus, one of the most important and fundamental tasks of liberal education at our college is to assist our students in understanding our common human nature and its essential elements so that they can flourish in accord with the maxim of St. Ireneus of Lyons who observed that, “the glory of God is man fully alive, and the life of man is the vision of God.”

Observing the relationships that structure reality, the unity of truth, and the nature of things, we seek to build a foundation for the good life properly constituted by and ordered toward the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.