We don’t believe that there is one school that is best for all students. Providing a single ranking of “the best liberal arts colleges” just doesn’t make sense to us. So, we developed more meaningful rankings in categories that impact the value of the overall college experience.
Here we rank the schools in a variety of ways based on hard data and current student opinions.
We used statistics and over 7,500 current Liberal Arts student responses from our annual Voice of the Student Survey to determine the top 20 Liberal Arts schools in each of the following categories.
Academic Challenge
SAT score and other popular statistics are very much relative to the individual school and prospective students, and often give skewed information regarding academic challenges. We found that the best way to quantify the difficulty of a college was to find out how the students perceived the challenge.
Student Satisfaction
An important measure of any education is the overall happiness of students at the college. This list is an essential resource for any prospective student considering a Liberal Arts school.
Student Housing
If you’re looking for a college with dorms like high class hotels, good luck. However, we’ve done you a favor and found the 20 Liberal Arts schools that get the closest.
Student Recommended
Find out which are the most widely student-recommended Liberal Arts Colleges.
Collaborative Environment
Collaborative or competitive? That is the question. Whether tis better to work with fellow students or against them?
Alcohol Influence
The importance of alcohol to social life on a college campus is something parents want to know and students should be finding out. Here’s the list of the 20 Liberal Arts schools least affected by alcohol.
Best Professor Relationships
Learning would be quite a bit more difficult without teachers. Find out which students rated their relationships with their professors the highest on this list of Liberal Arts Colleges.
