For those who want to see how the LACs stack up in this comprehensive ranking that includes behemoth research R1s and who don’t want to muddle through Collegefactual’s rankings with cumbersomely large school logos and advertisements:
#11 Middlebury College
#13 Colorado College
#14 Pomona College
#20 Hamilton College
#21 Bates College
#22 Bowdoin College
#24 Wellesley College
#25 Wesleyan University
#26 Davidson College
#27 Scripps College
#28 Pitzer College
#30 Dickinson College
#32 Willamette University
#33 Colgate University (a colleague’s daughter majored in environmental science here and now works in a PE firm in the Bay Area)
#37 Barnard College
#44 Hobart & William Smith
#45 Juniata College
#48 St. Mary’s College of Maryland
11, 20, 21, 22 and 25 for the NESCACs. Not bad when you consider the players in this ranking that includes schools like Cal, UCLA, Wisconsin, UW, Northwestern, Duke, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, UVa and others.