<p>Upon further review (to use a football phrase) it turns out that US News and World Report defines a “National Liberal Arts College” as:</p>
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<p>Under this definition fall many “Universities.” So, the definition of a LAC varies(!). The call on the field has been reversed (smile).</p>
<p>I found the Carnegie Foundation website to be a very cool search tool:</p>
<p>[Carnegie</a> Classifications](<a href=“Carnegie Foundation Classifications”>http://classifications.carnegiefoundation.org/)</p>
<p>If you start with “Institutional Lookup” and type in say, “Muhlenberg,” you will see how they classified it. You can then select one or more of the boxes and find similar schools. Lo and behold, up comes “Illinois Wesleyan” if you select things like “Basic Arts and Sciences” and “Highly Residential,” etc. If you look up “Elon” and then check some of the boxes, the resulting list will include: “Baldwin-Wallace,” “OCU,” and “Rider (Westminster Choir College has a new emphasis on MT).” What fun!</p>