An Eckerd College experience is not about learning a rigid set of facts. As one of 40 schools featured in the book Colleges That Change Lives and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Eckerd makes it clear that its first priority is to teach students how to learn.

Eckerd, a private college of liberal arts and sciences in St. Petersburg, invites students to ThinkOutside. We take advantage of our spectacular mile of campus waterfront along Florida's Gulf Coast for outdoor laboratories as well as for an impressive array of intramural, club and intercollegiate sports and water recreation. Offerings in the arts and humanities inspire creativity and foster critical thinking and self-awareness. Every year, students and faculty travel outside the U.S. to some 40 countries for research and cultural learning. And we venture together in the Eckerd experience to think outside the conventional questions, methods and solutions, seeking to build a better world.

The best education is one that prepares you for the how, as well as the what—an education that teaches you to ThinkOutside.