<p>Trying to come up with a list of NE colleges in the small to medium size range(say under 10,000) that are below the top tiers, but very good, good reputations. I thought the options would be more than we are finding. Need some help.</p>
<p>Holy Cross
Fairfield
Stonehill?
??</p>
<p>Wesleyan? (dont know the pop)
Trinity
Agnes Scott
Phoenix</p>
<p>To clarify…I would say a step below Bates, Colby, Wesleyan</p>
<p>Providence? I would say Holy Cross is a step up from Stonehill and Fairfield.</p>
<p>Most prestigious small/mid schools in New England:</p>
<p>Williams
Amherst
Middlebury
Wellesley
Bowdoin
Wesleyan
Smith
Bates
Colby
Mount Holyoke
[Boston College has only 9,000 undergrad, but is more of a national university than a small college]</p>
<p>Second Tier:
Holy Cross
Trinity
Connecticut College
Wheaton College</p>
<p>Babson College
Bentley University
Brandeis University
Clark University
Mount Holyoke College
Providence College
Quinnipiac University
Saint Anselm College
Skidmore College (NY)
Simmons College
Wheaton College MA</p>
<p>^ informative has a pretty good list but I wouldn’t sharply divide them into first and second tiers. Holy Cross’ entering class stats are close to Mount Holyoke’s; Trinity’s are close to Holy Cross; Conn College close to Trinity; Wheaton close to Conn College. A little further back, I’d add Hampshire and Bennington.</p>
<p>thanks for the list…most are liberal arts I see…with Bentley and Babson on the other extreme. So for a business major in this tier, it’s the bigger state schools, Northeastern, BU,…and for non liberal arts or with business majors for smaller schools, it’s Fairfield, QU, Stonehill, Providence.</p>
<p>I was thinking there would be more options…SATs in the 1800 range. Any colleges missed?</p>
<p>Hello Geeps20, I will suggest my daughter’s school in the Southern Tier of NYS, if you are willing to look outside of New England! (informative will bash me, for sure) </p>
<p>Alfred University, Alfred, NY </p>
<p>About 2200 undergrads, Division III Athletics, NO Greek Life, Need-based Aid, Merit Based Aid, in the small charismatic village of Alfred, NY: </p>
<p>School Of Business
School of Art & Design
College of Liberal Arts
School of Engineering </p>
<p>Established in 1836, a real hidden gem, a school which would like more student from OOS:</p>
<p>Princeton Review’s Best 373
Fiske Best Value
USNWR’s Great Schools Great Prices
Princeton Review’s Best 300 Business Schools (MBA)
Fiske Small Schools Strong in Art & Design
Fiske Small Schools Strong in Engineering
USNWR’s Regional Universities -North </p>
<p>Please feel free to send me a PM about Alfred University.</p>
<p>In NY:</p>
<p>Ithaca College
Union College
Hobart & Wm Smith
Skidmore
Clarkson
SUNY Geneseo</p>
<p>There’s also UMass Amherst which has a five college consortium with Smith, Mount Holyoke, Amherst, and Hampshire. You seem to fall right in the median SAT scores.</p>
<p>College US News Ranking
Bates #21
Colby #23
Mt Holyoke #26
Holy Cross #32
Trinity #36
Connecticut #41
Wheaton #59</p>
<p>My daughters looked at Holy Cross and Stonehill, Providence, Mount Holyoke, etc. Holy Cross is much more rigourous than Stonehill although their honors college is more challenging. She has friends there and they work, but pity her. : ) They have at Holy Cross an Econ/Accounting program, but Providence and others would be more of a “business college” with more opportunites if that was your potential major.
I don’t know about FA but HC is full need as is Smith and Mount Holyoke, others like Providence and Stonehill, have merit scholarships. That said, Mount Holyoke gave us less than Holy Cross and so did Bryn Mawr, so even “full need” varies among colleges. Some also expect more from the student from work, it pays to look into those things if money is an issue.</p>
<p>My daughter needed to visit, but also found looking at US News in their compare schools function helped, so she could see class size, grad rate, etc. Smith might be rated slightly higher for instance than HC but they are the same in mostly every catagory,( HC higher in retention), but peer review which she felt was biased. “Fit” is a personal thing but you could get a good education at most of the schools mentioned.
Don’t look at just numbers, but a broad spectrum of things.</p>
<p>A lot of people (including myself) thought you were looking for small schools, which is why we all posted liberal arts schools. If you wanted business or science degree, or a more nationally known school, look to the following list:</p>
<p>Tier 1:
Harvard
Yale
MIT
Dartmouth</p>
<p>Tier 2:
Tufts
Boston College
Northeastern
Boston Univ</p>
<p>Tier 3:
WPI
UConn
Clark</p>
<p>St Joseph’s in PA has a good business program although the rest of the majors aren’t as strong. Villanova also has a good business school nearby.</p>
<p>PA and NY are not New England.</p>
<p>True, forgot the original post…nearby anyway.</p>