Top Liberal Arts Colleges
Liberal arts colleges are small, undergraduate-focused schools where teaching comes first and class sizes stay low. Many are as selective as famous research universities. These are the nationally recognized liberal arts colleges in our database, ranked by acceptance rate.
Schools
44
Median acceptance
21%
Most selective
Swarthmore College
7% acceptance
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44 schools
- Swarthmore College7%acceptanceMost selectivePA · SAT 1530
- Pomona College7%acceptanceMost selectiveCA · SAT 1540
- Bowdoin College7%acceptanceMost selectiveME · SAT 1520
- Colby College7%acceptanceMost selectiveME · SAT 1500
- Williams College8%acceptanceMost selectiveMA · SAT 1530
- Amherst College9%acceptanceMost selectiveMA · SAT 1540
- Claremont McKenna College10%acceptanceMost selectiveCA · SAT 1520
- Middlebury College11%acceptanceHighly selectiveVT · SAT 1490
- Haverford College12%acceptanceHighly selectivePA · SAT 1500
- Davidson College13%acceptanceHighly selectiveNC · SAT 1470
- Bates College13%acceptanceHighly selectiveME · SAT 1470
- Wellesley College14%acceptanceHighly selectiveMA · SAT 1500
- Hamilton College14%acceptanceHighly selectiveNY · SAT 1500
- Colgate University14%acceptanceHighly selectiveNY · SAT 1460
- Washington and Lee University14%acceptanceHighly selectiveVA · SAT 1470
- Grinnell College15%acceptanceHighly selectiveIA · SAT 1470
- Wesleyan University16%acceptanceHighly selectiveCT · SAT 1490
- Denison University17%acceptanceHighly selectiveOH · SAT 1400
- College of the Holy Cross18%acceptanceHighly selectiveMA · SAT 1400
- Vassar College19%acceptanceHighly selectiveNY · SAT 1490
- Carleton College20%acceptanceHighly selectiveMN · SAT 1510
- Smith College21%acceptanceHighly selectiveMA · SAT 1440
- Skidmore College21%acceptanceHighly selectiveNY · SAT 1390
- Macalester College29%acceptanceSelectiveMN · SAT 1440
- Bryn Mawr College29%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1430
- Bucknell University29%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1410
- Trinity College29%acceptanceSelectiveCT · SAT 1400
- Kenyon College31%acceptanceSelectiveOH · SAT 1420
- Lafayette College31%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1410
- Oberlin College34%acceptanceSelectiveOH · SAT 1430
- Mount Holyoke College36%acceptanceSelectiveMA · SAT 1380
- Connecticut College37%acceptanceSelectiveCT · SAT 1420
- Whitman College38%acceptanceSelectiveWA · SAT 1400
- Gettysburg College39%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1350
- Dickinson College42%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1380
- Furman University43%acceptanceSelectiveSC · SAT 1360
- Occidental College44%acceptanceSelectiveCA · SAT 1420
- Union College44%acceptanceSelectiveNY · SAT 1400
- St. Olaf College48%acceptanceSelectiveMN · SAT 1380
- Rhodes College50%acceptanceSelectiveTN · SAT 1370
- St. Lawrence University54%acceptanceModerately selectiveNY · SAT 1230
- DePauw University57%acceptanceModerately selectiveIN · SAT 1310
- Sewanee - University of the South57%acceptanceModerately selectiveTN · SAT 1230
- Wheaton College (MA)68%acceptanceModerately selectiveMA · SAT 1250
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Acceptance rates and admitted test ranges reflect publicly reported data (U.S. Department of Education / NCES IPEDS / Common Data Sets) and are rounded. Estimates from CollegeCalcAI are a planning tool computed by a fixed, transparent model, not a guarantee of any admission decision.