Hi there,
I am interested in going to a school with good academics, a good social scene (parties available and social people), and a place that students are enthusiastic to go to. I’m looking at mainly medium and large schools but I was wondering which small schools don’t feel boring, sleepy, and isolated? Don’t get me wrong-- attending a small school is great for many reasons. But the ones I’ve visited haven’t seemed to lively or social.
Thank you!
Look up the Claremont Consortium. Small school feel with the resources and choices of a large university.
No one’s ever called Wesleyan “sleepy” though you can literally hear a pin drop on some school nights.
LACs in/near cities
Birmingham-Southern (Birmingham)
Colorado College (Colorado Springs)
Davidson (Charlotte)
Eugene Lang (NYC)
Goucher (Baltimore)
Haverford (Philly)
Holy Cross (Worcester)
Lewis & Clark (Portland)
Macalester (St. Paul)
Occidental (LA)
Reed (Portland)
Rhodes (Memphis)
U Richmond (Richmond)
Rollins (Orlando)
Swarthmore (Philly)
Trinity (Hartford)
Trinity U (San Antonio)
Willamette (Salem)
For women, there’s also Agnes Scott (Atlanta), Barnard (NYC), Bryn Mawr (Philly), Mills (Bay area), Simmons (Boston), Spelman (Atlanta), and Wellesley (Boston).
LAC consortiums
Claremont colleges (Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, Harvey Mudd, Scripps)
5 Colleges (Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Hampshire, U Mass-Amherst)
Quaker consortium (Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Swarthmore, Penn)
LACs with cross-registration
Barnard & Columbia
Wellesley & MIT and Brandeis
Baltimore exchange (JHU and Peabody, Goucher, Towson, UMBC, etc.)
ARCHE (Agnes Scott, Spelman, Emory, Georgia Tech, etc.)
LACs with 2000+ students
Bucknell (3600 undergrads)
Carleton (2000 undergrads)
Colgate (2900 undergrads)
Colorado College (2200 undergrads)
Evergreen State (3800 undergrads) --> public LAC
Franklin & Marshall (2200 undergrads)
Gettysburg (2600 undergrads)
Holy Cross (2900 undergrads)
Lafayette (2500 undergrads)
Macalester (2200 undergrads)
Middlebury (2500 undergrads)
Oberlin (2900 undergrads)
Occidental (2100 undergrads)
Rhodes (2000 undergrads)
Richmond (3500 undergrads)
Skidmore (2500 undergrads)
Smith (2500 undergrads)
St. Olaf (3000 undergrads)
SUNY Geneseo (5500 undergrads) --> public LAC
UNC Asheville (3900 undergrads) --> public LAC
Union (2200 undergrads)
Vassar (2400 undergrads)
Wellesley (2300 undergrads)
Wesleyan (2900 undergrads)
Willamette (2000 undergrads)
Wooster (2000 undergrads)
Universities with <5000 students
Brandeis (3600 undergrads)
Caltech (1000 undergrads)
Dartmouth (4300 undergrads)
MIT (4500 undergrads)
Rice (3900 undergrads)
Trinity U (2300 undergrads)
Tulsa (3500 undergrads)
Wake Forest (4800 undergrads)
These lists are not comprehensive.