Top 100 Liberal Arts Colleges
Liberal arts rank 2018 University State City WSJ/THE College Rank 2018
1 Williams College Massachusetts Williamstown 22
2 Amherst College Massachusetts Amherst 23
3 Pomona College California Claremont 26
4 Wellesley College Massachusetts Wellesley 28
5 Swarthmore College Pennsylvania Swarthmore 30
6 Claremont McKenna College California Claremont 35
7 Middlebury College Vermont Middlebury 36
8 Smith College Massachusetts Northampton 37
9 Carleton College Minnesota Northfield 38
10 Bowdoin College Maine Brunswick 39
11 Haverford College Pennsylvania Haverford 42
12 Wesleyan University Connecticut Middletown 45
13 Bryn Mawr College Pennsylvania Bryn Mawr 49
14 Davidson College North Carolina Davidson 54
15 Colgate University New York Hamilton 55
16 Bucknell University Pennsylvania Lewisburg 59
17 Hamilton College New York Clinton 61
18 Oberlin College Ohio Oberlin 63
19 Colby College Maine Waterville 65
=20 Bates College Maine Lewiston 66
=20 Vassar College New York Poughkeepsie 66
22 Lafayette College Pennsylvania Easton 70
23 Washington and Lee University Virginia Lexington 73
24 Barnard College New York New York 74
25 Grinnell College Iowa Grinnell 75
26 Mount Holyoke College Massachusetts South Hadley 77
27 Macalester College Minnesota Saint Paul 78
28 Trinity University Texas San Antonio 79
=29 Denison University Ohio Granville 84
=29 College of the Holy Cross Massachusetts Worcester 84
31 Franklin & Marshall College Pennsylvania Lancaster 89
32 Occidental College California Los Angeles 91
33 Union College New York Schenectady 92
=34 Scripps College California Claremont 93
=34 Trinity College Connecticut Hartford 93
36 Kenyon College Ohio Gambier 96
37 Spelman College Georgia Atlanta 101
38 Connecticut College Connecticut New London 102
39 The College of Wooster Ohio Wooster 105
40 DePauw University Indiana Greencastle 109
41 Gettysburg College Pennsylvania Gettysburg 110
42 Dickinson College Pennsylvania Carlisle 113
=43 Pitzer College California Claremont 115
=43 Wheaton College (Massachusetts) Massachusetts Norton 115
45 Colorado College Colorado Colorado Springs 120
46 Seattle University Washington Seattle 127
47 Allegheny College Pennsylvania Meadville 128
=48 Furman University South Carolina Greenville 130
=48 Reed College Oregon Portland 130
50 Willamette University Oregon Salem 136
51 Hobart and William Smith Colleges New York Geneva 140
52 Illinois Wesleyan University Illinois Bloomington 141
53 Skidmore College New York Saratoga Springs 143
54 Elon University North Carolina Elon 145
=55 Centre College Kentucky Danville 150
=55 Gustavus Adolphus College Minnesota Saint Peter 150
=57 Kalamazoo College Michigan Kalamazoo 153
=57 St Olaf College Minnesota Northfield 153
59 Stonehill College Massachusetts Easton 158
60 St Lawrence University New York Canton 160
61 Rhodes College Tennessee Memphis 162
=62 Linfield College - McMinnville campus Oregon McMinnville 166
=62 Whitman College Washington Walla Walla 166
64 Simmons College Massachusetts Boston 169
65 Berea College Kentucky Berea 170
66 Susquehanna University Pennsylvania Selinsgrove 172
67 Ohio Wesleyan University Ohio Delaware 174
68 Sewanee-The University of the South Tennessee Sewanee 177
=69 Knox College Illinois Galesburg 179
=69 Lawrence University Wisconsin Appleton 179
=69 Wofford College South Carolina Spartanburg 179
72 Saint Mary's College Indiana Notre Dame 198
73 Muhlenberg College Pennsylvania Allentown 202
74 Saint Mary's College of California California Moraga 203
=75 Beloit College Wisconsin Beloit 205
=75 Drew University New Jersey Madison 205
=75 Washington College Maryland Chestertown 205
=78 Juniata College Pennsylvania Huntingdon 209
=78 Siena College New York Loudonville 209
80 Ithaca College New York Ithaca 211
=81 Cornell College Iowa Mount Vernon 216
=81 Lake Forest College Illinois Lake Forest 216
83 Mercer University Georgia Macon 220
84 St Mary's College of Maryland Maryland St. Mary's City 224
85 Saint Anselm College New Hampshire Manchester 226
=86 Manhattan College New York Riverdale 230
=86 Marietta College Ohio Marietta 230
=86 College of Saint Benedict Minnesota Saint Joseph 230
=89 Gonzaga University Washington Spokane 233
=89 Lewis & Clark College Oregon Portland 233
91 Wheaton College (Illinois) Illinois Wheaton 237
92 Austin College Texas Sherman 238
93 Providence College Rhode Island Providence 239
94 Hope College Michigan Holland 241
=95 Elizabethtown College Pennsylvania Elizabethtown 243
=95 Hanover College Indiana Hanover 243
=95 Luther College Iowa Decorah 243
98 Augustana College (Illinois) Illinois Rock Island 246
99 Albion College Michigan Albion 247
100 Rollins College Florida Winter Park 251
