Liberal, Free Spirited Colleges

hokupaa
Thu, 05 Dec 2019 02:57:14 +0000

A good starting point for further research might be Princeton Review’s Tree Hugging Vegetarians list. Schools that have appeared on that list from 2010-2020 include:

Bard College
Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Beloit College
Bennington College
Brown University
Bryn Mawr College (female)
Carleton College
Champlain College
Clark University
College of the Atlantic
Colorado College
Columbia University
Earlham College
Eckerd College
Emerson College
Eugene Lang College
Evergreen State College
Goucher College
Green Mountain College [CLOSED]
Grinnell College
Guilford College
Hampshire College Ithaca College
Kalamazoo College
Lewis & Clark College
Macalester College
Marlboro College [CLOSING; will merge with Emerson]
McGill University
Mills College (female)
New College of Florida
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Pitzer College
Prescott College
Reed College
Sarah Lawrence College
Skidmore College
SUNY Coll of Env Sci & Forestry
SUNY Purchase College
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz
U Central Florida
UNC Ashville
University of Puget Sound
University of Toronto
University of Vermont
Vassar College
Warren Wilson College
Wesleyan University
Whitman College

There’s quite a vast range of schools here of widely varying size, selectivity, rigor, type (public/private, religious/non-religious, single-gender/coed, undergrad-only LACs, research universities, etc.), academic focus, affordability, weather, location and character etc.

For example, Reed would be very very different from Hampshire; academically, Reed is more like Carleton. Other schools are less academically traditional and more experimental. Some schools will have an open curriculum (e.g. Brown) while others will have distribution requirements. Some of these institutions are on shaky financial ground (e.g. Hampshire) while others have big endowments and healthy finances (e.g. Grinnell). Some schools offer merit aid while others are need-based only. Some are test optional, some aren’t. Some have a narrow academic focus while others don’t. Some run on traditional semesters, others have the 4-1-4 calendar, others run on trimesters, and at least one (Colorado) on the block plan. You have urban, suburban, rural, East, West, Midwest and even the South.

So, decide what you would like based on these other criterea to help narrow down your search.

[*] might soon close or merge with another institution.