Deep Springs College is an all-male alternative private college located in Deep Springs, California, just over the border from Nevada. The two-year college has a reputation of being the most difficult school to get into in the United States; its acceptance rate hovers at approximately 10 percent.
Deep Springs is a work college, which means that its students must, in addition to their studies, work 20 hours a week on the farmlands on which the college is located. Students do not pay tuition, room, or board. Most students, after completing their Associate's degree at Deep Springs, continue their studies at other universities.
The college supports 26 male students, three administrators, eight or nine teachers, and a staff of five.
It was founded in 1917 by L.L. Nunn, an industrialist who made his fortune building power plants throughout the western United States. The plants required well-trained engineers who were not afraid of living under rough conditions, so he started an educational program to train the men. Nunn later applied his knowledge in education to opening a liberal arts school.
