Liberal Arts Colleges with really good sciences

tk21769
Sun, 27 Sep 2015 13:56:54 +0000

Another objective metric you might want to consider is the volume of annual research spending at these schools.
Washington Monthly reports these numbers (but with no breakdown for science research in particular.)
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/rankings-2015/liberal-arts-colleges-research.php

Below are the annual research expenditures (according to the 2015 WM rankings) of LACs included in the NSF top 50 for per capita S&E doctorate production (table 4 of the paper I cited above), showing dollar amounts in millions:

$9.23 Bryn Mawr
$9.14 Wesleyan
$8.26 Wellesley
$5.4M Carleton
$5.17 Amherst
$4.30 Williams
$3.97 Bowdoin
$3.66 Harvey Mudd
$3.55 Barnard
$3.53 Pomona
$3.25 Mt. Holyoke
$3.23 Swarthmore
$2.71 Haverford
$2.70 Grinnell
$2.61 Macalester
$2.54 Middlebury
$2.02 Reed
$1.75 Oberlin
$1.68 Occidental
$1.60 Vassar
$0.87 Whitman
$0.79 Allegheny
$0.78 Hendrix
$0.47 Lawrence
$0.54 Earlham

BrynMawr-Haverford-Swarthmore, Amherst-Mt. Holyoke, and Mudd-Pomona have consortium relationships with each other (and with other neighboring schools). Such a relationship can be a force-multiplier for learning opportunities at the individual colleges. Barnard is part of the Columbia University system. Wellesley has cross-registration privileges with MIT and Olin.