Amherst, rated No. 8 among all colleges nationwide, is followed on the list of top Northeastern liberal-arts schools by Swarthmore College, No. 11 overall, and Williams College at No. 31.

Trinity University, No. 8 among Southern liberal-arts colleges, also made our list of the top 10 colleges in Texas. You can see the top liberal-arts colleges in the Northeast here.

Linda Marsa's article on science at liberal arts colleges (The Scientist, Nov. 23, 1992, page 21) is quite thorough in outlining the problems and the rewards of teaching and doing research at smaller ...

We rank liberal arts colleges—four-year institutions that award almost exclusively bachelor’s degrees and that focus on arts and sciences rather than professional programs—based on their ...

Campus leaders at Vassar College are on a mission to bring community college students to liberal arts institutions. They announced plans this fall to help 30 liberal arts colleges explore how to start ...

One analysis, from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, found that the median return on investment for the 200-plus liberal arts colleges in the U.S. was nearly ...

The 2025 U.S. News & World Report ranking of colleges puts St. Norbert 90th among the best National Liberal Arts Colleges. In 2019, it ranked 145th.

Lake Forest College is the highest-ranked liberal-arts school in the Midwest in the WSJ/College Pulse 2024 Best Colleges in the U.S. ranking, followed by Albion College and DePauw University.