Sattler College
Sattler College is a Christian college in Boston that opened in Fall 2018. It does not accept any government funds. Projected external funding for the school is $30 million over the course of 25 years. Christian historian and lawyer David Bercot is on its board, as well as businessmen James W. Bradford and Dr. Finny Kuruvilla. Its campus is in a high-rise office building in downtown Boston overlooking the Charles River and Massachusetts State House.

Religious Affiliation
The college is named for Michael Sattler, a sixteenth-century Anabaptist martyr. While the school is not affiliated with a particular denomination, it espouses principles from the early church and persecuted churches. Sattler believes in the power of redemptive love and emulates the early church and Anabaptist groups by following Jesus's instruction to love our enemies.

History
In 2015, Dr. Finny Kuruvilla presented his idea of a college with "a comprehensive curriculum and beautiful campus overlooking the Boston Harbor... no traditional campus would offer a first-class education for only $9,000 each year." He brought together a board of 6 people including 2 with PhDs from Ivy League schools and 2 with law degrees. In December 2016, Massachusetts Board of Higher Education approved a measure to allow Sattler College to grant degrees and exist as an autonomous institution. Sattler College's first application opened in October 2017 and it began its first semester with students in the fall of 2018.

Campus

On October 26, 2017, the college announced that it had secured the 17th floor of the Leverett Saltonstall Building for its first campus. It is located in downtown Boston in Beacon Hill. The college says that it had no plans for building science labs. Instead they plan "to have students take laboratory courses through the Harvard University Extension School, Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies, or elsewhere and transfer credits back to Sattler." The college does plan to lease out apartment space to its students to provide housing options.

Academics

Academic Model
Sattler adheres to the Oxford academic model. Classes are mostly discussion-based, with briefer lectures and greater student involvement.  They told the Massachusetts BHE, "Faculty will serve primarily as mentors and discussion leaders, not as lecturers or providers of information. Students will be directed to on-line lecture sets and will be responsible for learning outside of class, e.g., researching, reading, and watching video lectures. In class, ideas will be reinforced, discussed, and critiqued.

Instead of having a library of their own, Sattler utilizes the Boston Public Library for its students. Sattler also provides electronic library resources by subscribing to the eBook services provided by two leading digital library service providers: Proquest (ebrary) and EBSCO."

Degree Programs
In its December 2016 decision, the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education granted Sattler College the ability to grant the following degrees:
 Bachelor of Science in Business
 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
 Bachelor of Science in Human Biology
 Bachelor of Arts in Biblical and Religious Studies
 Bachelor of Arts in History

The college has announced that, "within ten years [by 2028], we plan to seek authorization to also offer programs in Civil Engineering, English, Education, Journalism, Mathematics, Physics, and Social Sciences."

The Three C's
One of Sattler College's self-proclaimed distinctives is its focus on "The Three C's": Core, Christian Character, and Cost.

Core
Sattler requires an extensive core curriculum based on the liberal arts, including writing, history, biology, math, and economics. Students will also be required to take religion courses on Christianity. These courses include learning Old Testament Hebrew and New Testament Greek, church history, and studying the basics of Christianity.

Sattler's core curriculum courses include:

Foundations of Christian Faith
 BRS 101 Fundamental Texts of Christianity: The Old and New Testaments
 BRS 201 Theology
 BRS 203 Apologetics
Science
 BIO 101 Principles of Biology
Mathematics
 MAT 102 Statistics and Data Science
Humanities (An Integrated Study of History, Literature, and Art)
 HUM 102 The History, Literature, and Art of the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
 HUM 103 The History, Literature, and Art of the Modern World
 HUM 104 The History, Literature, and Art of the United States
 HUM 105 The History, Literature, and Art of the Christian Church
Social Sciences
 BUS 101 Introduction to Economics
 SOC 301 Global Poverty: Its Origins and Implications for World Change
Language and Communication
 LNG 101 Expository Writing and Oral Communication
 LNG 102-103 Elementary Biblical Greek I and II
 LNG 104-105 Elementary Biblical Hebrew I and II

Christian Character
Dr. Kuruvilla says that the average student "after four years of college, is worse off when it comes to issues like pornography addiction, drug use, cheating and promiscuity." The college says it will focus on growing students "as a whole" through "wise study, mentoring, and discipleship."

Cost
Sattler College's goal is to keep tuition at $9,000 a year. Sattler College plans on room and board costing around $12,150. Below is their 2016 sample student cost of attendance according to their submission to the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education.

References

External links
Sattler College website

 
Universities and colleges in Boston
Private universities and colleges in Massachusetts
Nondenominational Christian universities and colleges in the United States
Nondenominational Christian universities and colleges