远景学院是山西农业大学信息学院以美国小型文理学院为根本范式，借鉴欧洲文理学院经验，吸收国内通识教育改革既成经验，在全国独立学院中，自创的中国本土式精英学院，是提高教学质量，深化教育教学改革的一项创新，是聚集全校优质教学资源、培养精英人才的基地，是一个高端教育品牌。   
    学院现有2012、2013、2014级学生405人，拥有相对独立的教学区和生活区，采用全新的人才培养模式，实施个性化的人才培养方案，注重学思结合，倡导启发式、探究式、讨论式、参与式教学，激发学生的好奇心，培养学生的兴趣爱好，帮助学生学会学习，营造独立思考、自由探索、勇于创新的良好环境，充分发掘学生的优质个性潜能，促进学生的心灵和智力发展，开发学生多种且互异的才华，培养愿意并能够推动社会发展的各行各业的领袖气质人才，为学生完满生活做准备。
As an innovation of Information College, Shanxi Agriculture University to improve teaching qualities and deepen teaching reform, Prospect College has been founded with American Liberal Arts and Sciences Colleges as its model and domestic successful experiences of liberal arts and sciences absorbed. It is a high-end education brand, an experimental program for elite talents cultivation.
Prospect College adopts new cultivation mode with individualized training programme. Our teaching and living areas are relatively independent.
山西农业大学We empathizes a combination of learning and thinking, advocates various teaching methods including enlightening, inquiring, discussing, and participating so as to develop students learning skills, inspire their curiosity and develop their interest. Meanwhile, we focuses on creating pleasant environment for independent thinking, free exploration and being brave to make innovations aiming at promoting students’spiritual and intellectual development, fully developing students’ qualities and potentials. The college devotes to cultivate potential leaders who are willing and able to push social development and prepare them for a well rounded future life.