This thread might be helpful: Liberal arts schools with good art programs?
Here are a few links from College Transitions (which is pretty popular around here):
Other links from elsewhere that might prove helpful:
- Top colleges for Digital Arts
- Best Schools for Fine & Studio Arts for Bachelor’s
- Best Fine Arts Programs in the US
As Brown has 6600 undergrads, that’s what I’m assuming you’re considering small. Some of the smaller universities (that are not art schools) mentioned on these lists include, in no particular order:
- Emerson
- Loyola Marymount
- Rensselaer Polytechnic
- Alfred
- Bard
- Brown
- Bryn Mawr
- Carnegie Mellon
- Cooper Union
- Princeton
- Skidmore
- Southwestern U.
- SUNY Purchase
- Tufts
- Vassar
- Washington U.
- Williams
- Yale
- UNC-Asheville (this is NC’s public liberal arts college)
- SUNY Oneonta
- Lesley
- Southern Oregon
- Champlain
- Stetson
- Hamline
- Stanford
- Duke
- Colgate
- Vanderbilt
- Lafayette
- Dartmouth
- College of the Holy Cross
- Columbia
- Wake Forest
- College of New Jersey
- Hamilton
There’s a range of colleges here in terms of location, selectivity, and cost.