<p>Notice that no one is giving you a simple, straight answer to the topic question.
That’s because it is difficult to compare the strengths of individual departments at the undergraduate level. For a popular major like biology, among peer LACs, it is nearly impossible. About the best you can do is to look carefully at the number of courses, descriptions, faculty bios, and class sizes (if that information is available). Chances are, you won’t see differences among most of these schools that are big enough to override significant net cost differences or non-academic personal preferences. </p>
<p>For a few majors, some LACs do have very strong reputations (e.g. Williams for art history, Bryn Mawr for classics, Beloit for anthropology). I’m not aware of any that stand out above the rest for biology, unless you are talking about certain subfields, perhaps. Connecticut College seems to have a very strong botany program, for example. </p>