Top Liberal-Arts Colleges in the Northeast
Amherst College is the top liberal-arts college in the Northeast, according to the WSJ/College Pulse 2024 Best Colleges in the U.S. ranking. Amherst, rated No.
8 among all colleges nationwide, is followed on the list of top Northeastern liberal-arts schools by Swarthmore College, No. 11 overall, and Williams College at No. 31.
Three more liberal-arts schools in the Northeast made the top 50 colleges overall in the country: Colgate University at No. 40, Haverford College at No. 41 and Colby College at No.
50. Schools’ overall scores in the WSJ/College Pulse ranking are based on three factors: Student outcomes—including measures of graduation rates, graduates’ salaries and how those salaries offset the cost of attaining an undergraduate degree at each school—account for 70% of the overall score. The learning environment—including students’ evaluations of their school’s learning facilities and learning opportunities and how well it prepares them for a career, as well as how strongly they would recommend the school—accounts for 20%.
And the diversity of a school’s students and faculty accounts for 10%. Critically, our ranking emphasizes how much each school boosts outcomes beyond what would be expected for its students. A complete explanation of the methodology accompanies the full overall ranking table, as well as separate rankings for Student Experience, Salary Impact and Social Mobility, all at wsj.com/collegerankings.
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