Williams College Equivalents

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National Universities offer a much wider variety of courses & majors some of which are taught by the leading researchers in their field of expertise. National Universities also often offer students a chance to work alongside pre-eminent faculty members doing cutting edge research & groundbreaking studies.

Small classes are also very common at the top ranked National Universities. For example, let’s compare Williams College percent of classes with less than 20 students with the top ranked National Universities based on figures supplied to US News Best colleges 2018 edition:

  1. Columbia University–83%

  2. Northwestern University–77%

  3. Univ. of Chicago–77%

  4. Yale–75%

  5. Harvard–74%

  6. Johns Hopkins–74%

  7. Princeton–73%

  8. Williams College–73%

  9. Duke–71%

  10. Rice–71%

  11. MIT–70%

  12. Stanford–70%

  13. Penn–70%

Somewhat surprisingly, Dartmouth College has only 62% of classes with fewer than 20 students.

Where Williams College shows a significant difference is in percent of classes with more than 50 students with only 2% of such classes. (Noteworthy that some studies indicate that once class size exceeds 35 students, size becomes less significant.)