Distinctives
New Saint Andrews is a classical Christian college, committed to the curriculum and pedagogy used for hundreds of years by faithful Christian educators—at least until the turn of the 20th century when many began to embrace the secular and pragmatic educational assumptions of Modernism.

The College teaches students how to live like Christians in a day when the antithesis between the City of Man and the City of God is increasingly blurred.

New Saint Andrews is more than an academic institution; it is part of a wider covenantal community that encourages intellectual integrity, responsible student living in the community or with Christian families (we think dormitories are a bad idea), and personal involvement with and accountability to the local church and Christian community.

The College not only teaches students how to think Christianly about the world God made—and how to learn from books—but more importantly, how to live like Christians in a day when the antithesis between the City of Man and the City of God is increasingly blurred.

The College isn’t just interested in making students think right thoughts; it seeks the paideia of the Lord (Eph. 6:4), where students can learn to live—body, mind, and soul—through faithful Christian enculturation in truth, beauty, and goodness.