Lists and Rankings

Colleges for the Lover of Ideas

Philosophers: these are the colleges for you. Think about the big questions at these schools: What is the meaning of life? Is there a God? Will we ever know if the chicken or egg came first?

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• 1. St. John's College (Annapolis, MD)
• 1. St. John's College (Santa Fe, NM)
• 2. Reed College (Portland, OR)
• 3. University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
• 4. Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
• 5. Brown University (Providence, RI)
• 5. Kenyon College (Gambier, OH)
• 5. Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
• 8. Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
• 9. Bard College (Annandale on Hudson, NY)
• 9. Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
• 9. Hampshire College (Amherst, MA)
• 12. Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
• 13. Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
• 13. Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA)
• 13. Haverford College (Haverford, PA)
• 13. Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY)
• 13. Yale University (New Haven, CT)
• 18. Earlham College (Richmond, IN)
• 18. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
• 18. The Evergreen State College (Olympia, WA)
• 18. Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)

Honorable Mention

• Beloit College (Beloit, WI)
• Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
• Clark University (Worcester, MA)
• Colby College (Waterville, ME)
• Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
• Davidson College (Davidson, NC)
• Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts (New York, NY)
• Furman University (Greenville, SC)
• Goucher College (Baltimore, MD)
• Guilford College (Greensboro, NC)
• Hamilton College (Clinton, NY)
• Hartwick College (Oneonta, NY)
• Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, CA)
• Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
• Lafayette College (Easton, PA)
• Lewis and Clark College (Portland, OR)
• Macalester College (St. Paul, MN)
• Marlboro College (Marlboro, VT)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
• McGill University (Montreal, CAN)
• Occidental College (Los Angeles, CA)
• Pitzer College (Claremont, CA)
• Rice University (Houston, TX)
• Scripps College (Claremont, CA)
• Sewanee: The University of the South (Sewanee, TN)
• Smith College (Northampton, MA)
• St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY)
• Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
• Susquehanna University (Selinsgrove, PA)
• The New School (New York, NY)
• Tufts University (Medford, MA)
• United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, MD)
• University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
• University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
• University of Redlands (Redlands, CA)
• University of Richmond (University of Richmond, VA)
• University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
• Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA)
• Williams College (Williamstown, MA)