Thanks, & understood. ! I’m glad to see the others are not too far off the chart.
“In some regards, ‘liberal arts college’ is kind of a marketing term”
Marketing implies a marketing agency or a rebranding. Neither are present here. The term dates to Ancient Rome.
Clark University self-reports as a “Doctoral/Research Universities–Intensive” despite being essentially a liberal arts college.
Here’s the rest of them, since there does seem to be at least some interest.
I didn’t look beyond #100 in the USNWR ranking, so that number is missing for a lot of schools towards the bottom of the list:
51 85.7 Trinity College 86.0% 88% 83% 45
52 85.5 Illinois Wesleyan University 85.4% 89% 82% 73
53 85.4 Furman University 85.2% 88% 83% 51
54 85.0 Gustavus Adolphus College 83.5% 90% 83% 64
55 84.6 Lawrence University 87.8% 90% 73% 56
56 84.3 Beloit College 84.1% 91% 78% 61
57 84.3 Sewanee-The University of the South 86.5% 86% 78% 45
58 84.2 St Lawrence University 82.0% 93% 80% 56
59 83.8 The College of Wooster 84.7% 90% 76% 69
60 83.7 St Mary’s College of Maryland 83.4% 87% 81% 89
61 83.5 Knox College 82.4% 88% 81% 81
62 83.3 Hendrix College 87.6% 86% 72% 81
63 83.2 Thomas Aquinas College 86.4% 84% 76% 77
64 83.1 University of Puget Sound 84.8% 86% 77% 81
65 83.0 DePauw University 82.5% 89% 78% 51
66 82.9 Wofford College 79.3% 89% 84% 77
67 82.7 New College of Florida 89.4% 83% 69% 87
68 82.5 Hope College 81.4% 90% 77% 99
69 82.0 Westmont College 80.5% 88% 79% 96
70 81.7 Transylvania University 82.4% 88% 74% 81
71 81.2 Allegheny College 78.9% 89% 78% 81
72 81.2 Willamette University 80.9% 86% 77% 64
73 80.7 Ursinus College 79.5% 90% 74%
74 80.7 College of Saint Benedict 76.5% 89% 81% 89
75 80.4 Luther College 78.3% 88% 77% 89
76 80.4 Juniata College 78.3% 90% 75% 105
77 79.3 Saint Johns University 75.7% 89% 77% 73
78 79.2 Southwestern University 78.0% 86% 75% 87
79 78.7 Saint Mary’s College 74.4% 88% 78% 96
80 78.6 University of Dallas 82.8% 80% 69%
81 78.4 Cornell College 79.2% 84% 71%
82 77.6 Austin College 78.2% 77% 77% 89
83 76.9 Washington College 76.8% 85% 69%
84 76.9 Gordon College 76.8% 80% 74%
85 76.7 Christopher Newport University 77.5% 85% 67%
86 76.2 Birmingham Southern College 79.0% 81% 66%
87 75.9 Coe College 77.4% 81% 68%
88 75.9 Ripon College 72.8% 86% 72%
89 75.6 Millsaps College 76.8% 77% 72% 89
90 75.6 Siena College 70.2% 89% 73%
91 75.4 Susquehanna University 71.8% 84% 74%
92 75.1 Goshen College 72.2% 85% 71%
93 75.0 Wabash College 70.5% 86% 73% 61
94 74.7 Agnes Scott College 76.3% 82% 64% 73
95 74.6 Virginia Military Institute 72.7% 82% 71% 64
96 74.4 Concordia College at Moorhead 74.8% 80% 68%
97 74.2 Presbyterian College 71.5% 86% 68%
98 73.6 McDaniel College 69.2% 83% 73%
99 73.6 Ohio Wesleyan University 71.7% 83% 68%
100 73.5 Albion College 74.6% 73% 72% 99
101 73.5 Houghton College 69.4% 88% 67%
102 73.3 University of Minnesota-Morris 77.6% 78% 60%
103 72.8 Mills College 75.6% 77% 63%
104 72.8 William Jewell College 75.1% 72% 69%
105 72.7 University of North Carolina at Asheville 78.8% 78% 55%
106 72.6 Hanover College 71.3% 83% 65%
107 72.4 Eckerd College 74.3% 81% 60%
108 71.8 Berea College 69.5% 82% 66% 69
109 71.6 Alma College 69.6% 80% 67%
110 71.4 Westminster College 66.3% 83% 70%
111 71.3 Drew University 70.6% 75% 69%
112 70.5 Hampden-Sydney College 68.0% 78% 68%
113 70.1 Oglethorpe University 72.1% 81% 55%
114 69.9 Westminster College 57.3% 87% 78%
115 69.6 Nebraska Wesleyan University 69.2% 75% 65%
116 69.6 Roanoke College 66.2% 81% 65%
117 68.9 Spelman College 56.2% 90% 73% 81
118 68.4 The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey 62.9% 84% 64%
119 68.4 The College of Idaho 63.2% 83% 64%
120 68.3 Whittier College 59.6% 87% 67%
121 68.2 Salem College 70.4% 69% 63%
122 68.0 Randolph College 67.5% 80% 57%
123 67.5 Saint Vincent College 58.0% 81% 73%
124 67.3 Sweet Briar College 66.5% 74% 62%
125 67.1 Lyon College 74.3% 72% 48%
126 66.7 Randolph-Macon College 65.3% 80% 56%
127 66.5 Georgetown College 65.4% 75% 60%
128 65.8 Hollins University 68.6% 70% 56%
129 65.8 Lycoming College 58.5% 81% 65%
130 64.3 Hastings College 65.1% 72% 55%
131 63.8 The Evergreen State College 64.7% 72% 54%
132 63.3 Monmouth College 59.6% 76% 58%
133 63.1 Guilford College 62.2% 71% 57%
134 63.0 Wells College 63.0% 70% 56%
135 62.5 Hiram College 56.0% 75% 63%
136 62.4 Seton Hill University 57.2% 78% 57%
137 62.1 Stephens College 59.3% 74% 56%
138 61.4 Bridgewater College 55.8% 77% 57%
139 60.5 Eastern Mennonite University 50.9% 81% 59%
140 60.2 King College 58.4% 75% 49%
141 59.3 Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts 57.6% 75% 47%
142 58.7 Morehouse College 48.9% 82% 55%
143 58.7 Erskine College 53.3% 63% 65%
144 58.1 Marymount Manhattan College 62.1% 68% 40%
145 58.0 West Virginia Wesleyan College 55.1% 64% 58%
146 57.6 Adrian College 52.2% 67% 59%
147 57.4 Blackburn College 56.8% 71% 45%
148 57.4 University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg 53.2% 75% 48%
149 54.7 Emory & Henry College 50.5% 72% 46%
150 54.7 Fort Lewis College 59.9% 61% 38%
151 53.0 California State University-Monterey Bay 47.5% 80% 37%
152 52.9 Muskingum University 47.7% 66% 50%
153 52.8 University of Pittsburgh-Bradford 45.1% 72% 49%
154 52.1 Coastal Carolina University 50.6% 60% 47%
155 51.4 San Diego Christian College 47.9% 67% 43%
156 51.2 Franklin Pierce University 45.8% 63% 50%
157 51.1 Huntingdon College 51.1% 55% 47%
158 51.0 Western State Colorado University 51.9% 63% 37%
159 50.8 Schreiner University 49.1% 71% 34%
160 49.1 University of Hawaii at Hilo 43.6% 70% 39%
161 48.8 The University of Virginia’s College at Wise 41.1% 71% 42%
162 47.5 Fisk University 25.5% 85% 54%
163 47.5 Olivet College 37.9% 71% 43%
164 47.3 Bethany College 38.7% 64% 48%
165 46.2 Colorado Mesa University 46.0% 64% 29%
166 46.1 Tougaloo College 27.2% 79% 51%
167 35.9 Greensboro College 30.9% 47% 35%
168 31.9 University of Hawaii-West Oahu 30.4% 67% 0%
169 26.4 Saint Augustine’s University 12.3% 46% 35%
170 26.0 Lane College 8.9% 50% 36%
171 25.9 Virginia Union University 12.4% 49% 30%
172 25.9 Paine College 14.9% 52% 22%
And here are the schools that have a significant portion of their incoming class test scores unreported:
90.9 Pitzer College 93.2% 90% 87% 35
90.0 Union College 91.4% 94% 83% 41
89.3 Denison University 89.7% 92% 86% 51
86.5 Sarah Lawrence College 89.9% 90% 76% 59
84.0 Hobart William Smith Colleges 85.5% 89% 76% 61
83.8 Wheaton College 83.6% 86% 82% 69
81.7 Earlham College 86.0% 83% 72% 73
79.5 College of the Atlantic 85.5% 83% 64% 99
77.9 Saint Anselm College 74.9% 88% 74%
71.2 Wittenberg University 70.9% 78% 65%
67.9 Hartwick College 71.3% 73% 56%
60.6 Albright College 57.7% 74% 53%
56.3 Virginia Wesleyan College 55.0% 67% 48%
40.9 Bethel University 38.3% 58% 29%
Wheaton on this list is the one in Massachusetts.
Whoops, forgot one:
86 76.7 Washington & Jefferson College 74.9% 83% 74% 96
@merc81, the liberal arts may date back to Roman times, but liberal arts colleges definitely do not. More to the point, schools may decide what to call themselves (though granted, most stick to Carnegie classifications). However, note that both Dartmouth and W&M consider themselves a “liberal arts university”. Also, LACs may want to make the connection to the Roman term, but pretty much all of them teach far more than the old Roman liberal arts. Richmond calls itself a LAC despite having a b-school. Bryn Mawr calls itself a LAC despite having grad students. So I do consider it partially a marketing term.
I do find the classifications in USNWR pretty confusing at times, though if it’s based on institution self-reporting, I suppose the institutions in question have only themselves to blame for ending up in weird categories. For instance, what makes Trinity University a “regional university” instead of a LAC? They’ve got 2300 undergrads and 197 grad students. That latter number is exactly the same as for Wesleyan University, which has long occupied a spot in the top tier of LAC rankings. Looks like Trinity would probably fall just out your top 50 if it were classified as a LAC.
^ Trinity classifies itself in the “Masters Colleges and Universities” category. They scored an 88.5 which would have put them in the mid-40s on my list.
@rayrick @NickFlynn Trinity University did not classify itself in the regional category, Carnegie did. http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/
Schools are placed in USNWR categories (national, liberal arts, regional), based on Carnegie classifications of college and universities. However, some schools like Wesleyan, the University of Richmond, Bucknell, and Middlebury, which have professional or graduate programs in greater abundance than Trinity, petitioned to be ranked in the liberal arts category, because it is perceived as more prestigious. Trinity, however, shares many qualities of LACs and considers itself a LAC.