The Washington Monthly College Rankings
Liberal Arts Colleges
By The Editors
Washington Monthly Ranking 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Liberal Arts College *Public College Bryn Mawr College Wellesley College Wesleyan University Haverford College Amherst College Mount Holyoke College Claremont McKenna College Williams College Whitman College Swarthmore College Wheaton College Carleton College Oberlin College Grinnell College Pomona College Smith College Harvey Mudd College Tougaloo College Bowdoin College Middlebury College Presbyterian College Spelman College Knox College Reed College Colorado College Bates College Fisk University Macalester College U.S. News Ranking **Unranked 21 4 12 8 2 23 10 1 36 3 55 5 23 15 6 19 18 ** 6 8 100 73 73 47 27 21 *& 25
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Wofford College Wells College Barnard College Bucknell University Occidental College Virginia Military Institute* Hobart and William Smith Colleges Mills College Furman University St. Augustine's College Washington and Lee University Hendrix College Earlham College Vassar College University of Judaism Agnes Scott College Connecticut College Colby College Evergreen State College* Antioch College St. Olaf College Dickinson College St. John's College Hamilton College Kalamazoo College Albertson College Ripon College Beloit College Davidson College Pine Manor College Bethel College University of Richmond Lewis and Clark College St. John's University College of the Holy Cross Talladega College Southwestern University Randolph-Macon Woman's College
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55 94 27 27 41 73 61 73 41 ** 14 73 69 13 ** 55 36 20 ** ** 55 45 ** 15 55 ** ** 61 10 ** ** 34 81 69 32 ** 61 84
67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104
Colgate University Union College Guilford College Bennett College University of the South, Sewanee Hampshire College Franklin Pierce College Hiram College College of Saint Benedict Lyon College Morehouse College Kenyon College Eckerd College Juniata College Willamette University Lawrence University Bennington College Stephens College Wesleyan College Siena College Shawnee State University* Trinity College College of the Atlantic Luther College Pitzer College Salem College Skidmore College Erskine College University of Puget Sound Ohio Wesleyan University Franklin and Marshall College Lafayette College College of Wooster Hollins University Houghton College St. Lawrence University Warner Pacific College Denison University
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105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142
Bethany College Concordia College, Moorhead Alma College Olivet College Paine College St. Mary's College of Maryland* Austin College Millsaps College Allegheny College California State University, Monterey Bay* Oglethorpe University Lane College Huntingdon College Wittenberg University Rhodes College Albion College Washington & Jefferson College Schreiner University Ursinus College Hartwick College DePauw University Goshen College Lycoming College St. Vincent College Gustavus Adolphus College Coe College Hope College Westminster College Wabash College Scripps College University of Dallas Centre College St. John's College Virginia Union University Sarah Lawrence College Lees-McRae College Augustana College Gordon College
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143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171
Drew University Chatham College Cornell College Lake Forest College Eastern Mennonite University Birmingham Southern College Hastings College Bard College Westmont College University of Hawaii, Hilo* Illinois Wesleyan University McDaniel College Wheaton College Gettysburg College Susquehanna University Sweet Briar College Goucher College Nebraska Wesleyan University Marlboro College Albright College Muskingum College Transylvania University Whittier College West Virginia Wesleyan College St. Anselm College Monmouth College Hampden-Sydney College Georgetown College Roanoke College
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