Liberal Arts College Rankings

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<p>what is the campus culture like on some of these LAC's that you are talking about?</p>

<p>as in...</p>

<p>(example) how does amherst's differ from swarthmore from williams?</p>

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interesteddad, what are the numbers if you use the number of admitted freshman?

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<p>I dumped that spreadsheet after the work it took to get the actual number of graduates for several thousand colleges and universities!</p>

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A better way to judge a department would be to see where their students go to graduate school rather than how many, but unfortunately most don't offer this information.

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<p>You mean like this, that includes the thirteen most popular grad and professional universities for graduates in the Classes of 2004-06:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.swarthmore.edu/Documents/administration/careerservices/grad_school_stats.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.swarthmore.edu/Documents/administration/careerservices/grad_school_stats.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Or this, that lists every grad and professional college and degrees earned by grads in the classes of 1997-2001 (does not include multiples, i.e. if three students got med degrees from U Rochester, it would only be listed once):</p>

<p><a href="http://www.swarthmore.edu/Documents/administration/careerservices/Graduate_Degrees_1997-2001.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.swarthmore.edu/Documents/administration/careerservices/Graduate_Degrees_1997-2001.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>