<p>Which are the biggest LACs, in terms of number of full-time students? I know Oberlin, Wesleyan and Vassar are up there, any others?</p>
<p>Colgate...2800
Middlebury....2400</p>
<p>Barnard (2400)
Brandeis (3200)
Bucknell (3500)
Emerson (3200)
Furman (2800)
Gettysburg (2500)
Holy Cross (2800)
Hope (3000)
Oberlin (2900)
Rice (3000)
Skidmore (2700)
Smith (2600)
St. Olaf (3000)
U Puget Sound (2600)
U Redlands (2400)
U Richmond (2800)
Wesleyan (2700)</p>
<p>Rice is no LAC.</p>
<p>How astute of you to notice. :rolleyes: A couple others on the list aren't either, if you want to get technical. Where does one draw the line? Bryn Mawr and Wesleyan grant PhDs, and Washington & Lee has a law school- are they LACs? It's difficult to pin down the difference between a LAC and a LAC-like university. In any case, Rice is smaller than some LACs and LAC-like universities (Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton, et al), so it deserves a mention.</p>
<p>I don't know, in my experience, Rice has just never appeared terribly "LAC"-like, as schools like Wesleyan do. I always see Rice billed as a serious research university, with a large number of graduate students and focuses outside of the traditional liberal-arts curriculum. Maybe it's just me, though.</p>
<p>Dartmouth, while technically a university, is very LAC-ish, and has ~4000 undergrads.</p>
<p>Rice is certainly a serious research university, but in many ways it's more undergraduate-focused than comparable schools. It only has around 1000 graduate students, and it has a very small student to faculty ratio (5:1), so it could certainly be described as "LAC-like" in some ways. In any case, it's probably worth a look for anyone interested in a slightly larger LAC experience.</p>
<p>the largest 'selective' colleges and universities without 'research' in their carnegie classifications:</p>
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Rochester Institute of Technology 10,723<br>
Villanova University 6,587<br>
Ithaca College 5,966
Loyola Marymount University 5,375<br>
Bradley University 4,996<br>
Hampton University 4,908<br>
Elon University 4,494
Santa Clara University 4,316<br>
Marist College 4,273
Saint Josephs University 4,112<br>
Abilene Christian University 4,010<br>
Bentley College 3,947
University of Scranton 3,811<br>
Providence College 3,787<br>
Chapman University 3,520<br>
Bucknell University 3,420<br>
Loyola College In Maryland 3,398<br>
University of The Pacific 3,371<br>
Fairfield University 3,305<br>
Loyola University New Orleans 3,220<br>
University of Richmond 3,090<br>
Emerson College 3,020
Siena College 2,992
Saint Olaf College 2,973<br>
Valparaiso University 2,897<br>
Pratt Institute, Main Campus 2,861<br>
Colgate University 2,796<br>
Wesleyan University 2,766<br>
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2,764<br>
Manhattan College 2,764<br>
Oberlin College 2,741
Morehouse College 2,729<br>
College of The Holy Cross 2,718<br>
Furman University 2,703<br>
Smith College 2,655
Webster University 2,620<br>
Rollins College 2,582
University of Puget Sound 2,564<br>
Kettering University 2,512<br>
Gettysburg College 2,436<br>
Vassar College 2,414
Skidmore College 2,387<br>
Trinity University 2,371<br>
Depauw University 2,359<br>
Wheaton College 2,348
Middlebury College 2,331<br>
Dickinson College 2,290<br>
Lafayette College 2,245<br>
Muhlenberg College 2,242<br>
Barnard College 2,235
Stonehill College 2,228<br>
Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach 2,210<br>
Denison University 2,204<br>
Brigham Young University, Hawaii Campus 2,190<br>
Wellesley College 2,181<br>
Union College 2,160
Mississippi College 2,157<br>
Gardner-Webb University 2,140<br>
Illinois Wesleyan University 2,109<br>
St Lawrence University 2,104<br>
Lipscomb University 2,084<br>
Spelman College 2,082
Flagler College 2,044
Merrimack College 2,019<br>
Spring Arbor University 2,006</p>
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<p>and while i am at it, the smallest (in terms of undergraduate enrollment) 'selective' colleges and universities with 'research' in their carnegie classifications:</p>
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California Institute of Technology 896<br>
Polytechnic University 1,471<br>
Andrews University 1,508<br>
Drew University 1,569
Stevens Institute of Technology 1,730<br>
Illinois Institute of Technology 1,825<br>
Clark University 2,040<br>
University of Tulsa 2,580<br>
Pepperdine University 2,651<br>
Yeshiva University 2,734<br>
Rice University 2,905
Brandeis University 3,166<br>
Case Western Reserve University 3,252<br>
Wake Forest University 3,992<br>
Dartmouth College 4,027<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4,078<br>
New School University 4,208<br>
University of Rochester 4,348<br>
University of Chicago 4,513<br>
Lehigh University 4,525<br>
Princeton University 4,678<br>
University of San Diego 4,770<br>
Tufts University 4,849<br>
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 4,895<br>
Johns Hopkins University 4,946 </p>
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<p>and as a note, the i unintentially left public colleges and universities off of my list of liberal arts colleges in the above post. in other words, its a ranking of the largest private, 'selective' schools without 'research' in their carnegie classifications.</p>
<p>no public schools made the 'research' list in this post.</p>
<p>Holy Cross, Colgate, and Bucknell also enhanced by Div1 sports.</p>
<p>"Holy Cross, Colgate, and Bucknell also enhanced by Div1 sports." Well, that's a matter of opinion. They are also all notoriously skimpy on merit scholarship money...</p>
<p>Colgate offers zero merit $$</p>