Top Liberal Arts Colleges US

Amherst College is a private and highly selective liberal arts college in the US, ranked 1st among liberal arts colleges in the nation (joint first with Williams). Williams is another top ranked liberal arts college, maintaining top position for five consecutive years. It is placed 8th in the Washington Monthly rankings.

Swarthmore is ranked in the Top 3 nationally. It is named as the No. 1 "Best Value" private college by The Princeton Review in 2009. It is also rated as the 4th most wired college in the nation by PC World 2012.

Ranking of Best Liberal Arts Colleges by US News (Top 70 list):

1 Amherst College

1 Williams College

3 Swarthmore College

4 Wellesley College

5 Middlebury College

6 Bowdoin College

6 Pomona College

8 Carleton College

9 Davidson College

10 Haverford College

11 Claremont McKenna College

11 Vassar College

13 Wesleyan University

14 Grinnell College

14 Harvey Mudd College

14 United States Military Academy

17 Washington and Lee University

18 Colgate University

18 Smith College

20 Hamilton College

20 Oberlin College

22 United States Naval Academy

23 Bryn Mawr College

23 Colby College

25 Bates College

25 Macalester College

27 Barnard College

27 Mount Holyoke College

27 Scripps College

30 Bucknell University

30 Colorado College

32 Kenyon College

33 Trinity College

33 University of Richmond

35 College of the Holy Cross

35 Lafayette College

37 Bard College

37 Furman University

37 Occidental College

37 Whitman College

41 Sewanee--University of the South

42 Connecticut College

42 Franklin and Marshall College

42 Union College

45 Centre College

45 Dickinson College

47 Skidmore College

47 St. Olaf College

49 DePauw University

49 Gettysburg College

49 Pitzer College

49 Rhodes College

53 Denison University

54 Reed College

54 Wabash College

56 Lawrence University

56 Wheaton College

58 St. Lawrence University

58 Wheaton College

60 Agnes Scott College

60 Beloit College

60 Illinois Wesleyan University

60 Kalamazoo College

60 Thomas Aquinas College

60 Willamette University

60 Wofford College

67 Earlham College

68 Berea College

68 Hobart and William Smith Colleges

68 Southwestern University