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
27%
Most selective
Pomona College
7% acceptance
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44 schools
- Pomona College7%acceptanceMost selectiveCA · SAT 1540
- Amherst College9%acceptanceMost selectiveMA · SAT 1540
- Swarthmore College9%acceptanceMost selectivePA · SAT 1530
- Bowdoin College9%acceptanceMost selectiveME · SAT 1520
- Claremont McKenna College9%acceptanceMost selectiveCA · SAT 1520
- Williams College10%acceptanceMost selectiveMA · SAT 1530
- Colby College10%acceptanceMost selectiveME · SAT 1500
- Grinnell College12%acceptanceHighly selectiveIA · SAT 1470
- Hamilton College12%acceptanceHighly selectiveNY · SAT 1500
- Wellesley College13%acceptanceHighly selectiveMA · SAT 1500
- Haverford College13%acceptanceHighly selectivePA · SAT 1500
- Bates College14%acceptanceHighly selectiveME · SAT 1470
- Middlebury College15%acceptanceHighly selectiveVT · SAT 1490
- Vassar College15%acceptanceHighly selectiveNY · SAT 1490
- Colgate University15%acceptanceHighly selectiveNY · SAT 1460
- Wesleyan University15%acceptanceHighly selectiveCT · SAT 1490
- Carleton College16%acceptanceHighly selectiveMN · SAT 1510
- Davidson College17%acceptanceHighly selectiveNC · SAT 1470
- Washington and Lee University17%acceptanceHighly selectiveVA · SAT 1470
- Smith College22%acceptanceHighly selectiveMA · SAT 1440
- Skidmore College26%acceptanceSelectiveNY · SAT 1390
- Denison University26%acceptanceSelectiveOH · SAT 1400
- Macalester College28%acceptanceSelectiveMN · SAT 1440
- Bryn Mawr College30%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1430
- Kenyon College30%acceptanceSelectiveOH · SAT 1420
- Lafayette College30%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1410
- Trinity College30%acceptanceSelectiveCT · SAT 1400
- Oberlin College32%acceptanceSelectiveOH · SAT 1430
- Bucknell University32%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1410
- College of the Holy Cross32%acceptanceSelectiveMA · SAT 1400
- Connecticut College33%acceptanceSelectiveCT · SAT 1420
- Union College35%acceptanceSelectiveNY · SAT 1400
- Occidental College37%acceptanceSelectiveCA · SAT 1420
- Dickinson College37%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1380
- Mount Holyoke College38%acceptanceSelectiveMA · SAT 1380
- Gettysburg College41%acceptanceSelectivePA · SAT 1350
- Rhodes College42%acceptanceSelectiveTN · SAT 1370
- Whitman College44%acceptanceSelectiveWA · SAT 1400
- St. Olaf College50%acceptanceSelectiveMN · SAT 1380
- DePauw University54%acceptanceModerately selectiveIN · SAT 1310
- Furman University55%acceptanceModerately selectiveSC · SAT 1360
- Wheaton College (MA)62%acceptanceModerately selectiveMA · SAT 1250
- Sewanee - University of the South65%acceptanceModerately selectiveTN · SAT 1230
- St. Lawrence University65%acceptanceModerately selectiveNY · SAT 1230
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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.