An outfit called College Consensus offers a new ranking of colleges and came up with what CC’s researchers thought were underrated ones.
CC looked at three things: “Unique Curricular Designs, Model or Influential Programs, and Community Engagement and Service.” Unfortunately, you might notice that life after graduation, or jobs, is not one of their ratings criteria.
Anyway, here’s their best of list:
Agnes Scott College – Decatur, GA
Allegheny College – Meadville, PA
Alverno College – Milwaukee, WI
Babson College – Wellesley, MA
Bard College – Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Beloit College – Beloit, WI
Birmingham-Southern College – Birmingham, AL
California Institute of Technology – Pasadena, CA
Centre College – Danville, KY
Clark University – Worcester, MA
Colby College – Waterville, ME
College of the Ozarks – Point Lookout, MO
Colorado College – Colorado Springs, CO
Connecticut College – New London, CT
Cornell College – Mount Vernon, IA
Earlham College – Richmond, IN
Eckerd College – St. Petersburg, FL
Emory & Henry College – Emory, VA
Evergreen State College – Olympia, WA
Furman University – Greenville, SC
Goucher College – Baltimore, MD
Grinnell College – Grinnell, IA
Guilford College – Greensboro, NC
Hampshire College – Amherst, MA
Hendrix College – Conway, AR
Hiram College – Hiram, OH
Hope College – Holland, MI
Kalamazoo College – Kalamazoo, MI
Marlboro College – Marlboro, VT
McDaniel College – Westminster, MD
Miami University-Oxford – Oxford, OH
Millsaps College – Jackson, MS
New College of Florida – Sarasota, FL
Oberlin College – Oberlin, OH
Ohio Wesleyan University – Delaware, OH
Pitzer College – Claremont, CA
Reed College – Portland, OR
Rhodes College – Memphis, TN
Ripon College – Ripon, WI
Southwestern University – Georgetown, TX
St. John’s College – Annapolis, MD
St. Olaf College – Northfield, MN
Sweet Briar College – Sweet Briar, VA
Thomas Aquinas College – Santa Paula, CA
University of Maryland Baltimore County – Baltimore, MD
University of Richmond – Richmond, VA
Ursinus College – Collegeville, PA
Warren Wilson College – Swannanoa, NC
Whitman College – Walla Walla, WA
Wofford College – Spartanburg, SC
