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Colleges for the Socially Liberal

Some may call you a left-wing nut, but you prefer to think of yourself as progressive and passionate. These are colleges where liberal students are happy.

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• Allegheny College (Meadville, PA)
• Alma College (Alma, MI)
• Augsburg College (Minneapolis, MN)
• Bard College (Annandale on Hudson, NY)
• Bates College (Lewiston, ME)
• Beloit College (Beloit, WI)
• Bennington College (Bennington, VT)
• Berea College (Berea, KY)
• Brown University (Providence, RI)
• CUNY — City College (New York, NY)
• Clark University (Worcester, MA)
• Connecticut College (New London, CT)
• Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
• DePaul University (Chicago, IL)
• Earlham College (Richmond, IN)
• Emerson College (Boston, MA)
• Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts (New York, NY)
• Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
• Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA)
• Guilford College (Greensboro, NC)
• Hampshire College (Amherst, MA)
• Humboldt State University (Arcata, CA)
• Johnson & Wales University at Denver (Denver, CO)
• Lesley University (Cambridge, MA)
• Lewis and Clark College (Portland, OR)
• Macalester College (St. Paul, MN)
• Marlboro College (Marlboro, VT)
• Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI)
• Mills College (Oakland, CA)
• Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA)
• New College of Florida (Sarasota, FL)
• New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NJ)
• New York University (New York, NY)
• Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
• Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
• Pitzer College (Claremont, CA)
• Quinnipiac University (Hamden, CT)
• Reed College (Portland, OR)
• SUNY — Old Westbury (Old Westbury, NY)
• SUNY — Purchase College (Purchase, NY)
• SUNY — Stony Brook (Stony Brook, NY)
• San Francisco State University (San Francisco, CA)
• Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY)
• Seattle University (Seattle, WA)
• Simmons College (Boston, MA)
• Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY)
• Smith College (Northampton, MA)
• Spelman College (Atlanta, GA)
• Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
• Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
• Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY)
• Temple University (Philadelphia, PA)
• The Evergreen State College (Olympia, WA)
• The George Washington University (Washington, DC)
• The University of Montana (Missoula, MT)
• The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
• Trinity University (San Antonio, TX)
• University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
• University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
• University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)
• University of Colorado, Boulder (Boulder, CO)
• University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS)
• University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD)
• University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst, MA)
• University of Michigan — Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)
• University of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
• University of South Florida (Tampa, FL)
• University of Vermont (Burlington, VT)
• University of Wisconsin — Madison (Madison, WI)
• Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
• Warren Wilson College (Asheville, NC)
• Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA)
• Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)