Ralston College

Ralston College is a private unaccredited liberal arts college in Savannah, Georgia. It describes itself as being dedicated to "freedom of thought and speech", and is associated with prominent conservative figures, with Stephen Blackwood as President, Jordan B. Peterson as Chancellor and funding from conservative activists including Paul Marshall. Ralston College started accepting graduate students to its one-year MA in the Humanities in the summer of 2022.

History
In 2006, Stephen Blackwood and James Atkins Pritchard began fundraising for the establishment of an institution of higher education. Ralston was incorporated in the State of Georgia in 2010. Among the members of its Board of Visitors are Vernon Smith, Heather Mac Donald, Harry Lewis, Ruth Wisse, Roger Kimball, and Jordan Peterson who was appointed Chancellor in May 2022.

Ralston's first class of MA students began classes in the fall of 2022. with classes held in the education building of St. John's Episcopal Church.

Ralston College has been plagued by allegations of mismanagement and a series of high-level terminations.

In March 2023, a member of Ralston's Board of Visitors, Harvey Silverglate, resigned his position decrying the college as "antithetical to the whole concept of a liberal arts institution".

Academics
Ralston College's curriculum focuses on the liberal arts: after a term teaching Ancient Greek and Modern Greek in Greece, the following three terms of the MA in the Humanities focus on ancient, medieval and modern literary texts and works of arts. Blackwood has stated that Ralston aims “to play a role in the renewal of the conditions for human flourishing”. It also offers one online short-course, run in conjunction with the FutureLearn platform, on Samuel Johnson's Rasselas.

Accreditation
The College has been authorized for operation and awarded degree-granting powers by the State of Georgia, but is not accredited.