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There’s a 30-person college in the California desert where students work off their tuition on a cattle ranch — and it produces Rhodes Scholars and Pulitzer Prize winners

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Deep Springs College is a tiny 30-person-or-less school located in the desert of eastern California.

But the size isn’t the only factor that sets Deep Springs apart. It is currently all male, tuition free, and located on a cattle ranch and alfalfa farm where students work to pay their way through. 

“The desert has a deep personality; it has a voice. Great leaders in all ages have sought the desert and heard its voice,” the school’s founder L.L. Nunn said in 1923. 

Men — and in 2018 for first time since its 1917 founding, women — who want to experience college in the high desert of California flock to the college for two years.

Read on below to see what it’s like to attend Deep Springs College.  

The college is located on a 155-acre ranch in eastern California, and is the only habitation in the Deep Springs Valley.

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The physical isolation and natural beauty of Deep Spring’s location are integral parts of the educational program, according to the school’s website.

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The school was founded in 1917 by L.L. Nunn, and entrepreneur and philanthropist.

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