But now, fantastic liberal arts colleges that tickle her fancy are squarely in her radar.
Among all liberal arts colleges in the country, the Naval Academy came in at No. 14.
Our Top ROI colleges list is chock full of small liberal arts colleges like Williams, Wellsley and Bard.
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Owned by 28 dioceses of the Episcopal Church, University of the South ranks among the nation's top liberal arts colleges, having produced 25 Rhodes Scholars.
Low student-faculty ratios are a benefit of small, liberal arts colleges.
Knox was founded in 1837 by anti-slavery social reformers, led by George Washington Gale, and today ranks as one of the top private liberal arts colleges.
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In liberal arts colleges, there are typically no graduate students.
Wonderful liberal arts colleges with ED include Amherst, Barnard, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna, Colgate, Davidson, Haverford, Hamilton, Harvey Mudd, Middlebury, Occidental, Pomona, Swarthmore, Vassar, Washington and Lee, Wellesley, Wesleyan and Williams.
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This upcoming spring, we plan to enhance her exposure by visiting select liberal arts colleges and research universities in a few cities in the US East Coast, plus perhaps Chicago.
Those leafy little New England towns with four-year liberal arts colleges may be fine places in which to paint, write or retire, but it's unlikely they'll birth the next Google or Gilead Sciences.
In general, all of the liberal arts colleges have done exactly what was expected to happen when the federal government intervenes and interferes with the free market (in this case the market of higher level education).
In fact for certain prominent liberal arts colleges on the list like Vassar College, Pomona College and Amherst College, private gifts from grateful graduates account for nearly all of their income outside of tuition, fees and investment returns.
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My daughter and I realize that she may not be Harvard material, but some of the high achievers like her may find some of the elite liberal arts colleges, which also happen to have rather cut-throat low admit rates, can be a great fit.
Between 2005 and 2007, data was collected from 24 four-year institutions, including state universities and liberal-arts colleges.
The 18-year-old, who has applied to several private, liberal-arts colleges, worries she will graduate unable to pay her bills.
But the latest salary survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) shows that average salaries for liberal arts majors are on the rise.
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