Lists and Rankings

Colleges for the Student with a Deep Concern for Current Events in the World

Watch out for students at these schools--they're likely to have their noses buried in the latest edition of The New York Times...and thus bump into everything around them.

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Top Choices

• American University (Washington, DC)
• Brown University (Providence, RI)
• Columbia University (New York, NY)
• Earlham College (Richmond, IN)
• Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
• Haverford College (Haverford, PA)
• Macalester College (St. Paul, MN)
• Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
• The George Washington University (Washington, DC)
• Tufts University (Medford, MA)
• University of Michigan — Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)

Honorable Mention

• Bennington College (Bennington, VT)
• Biola University (La Mirada, CA)
• Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
• Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
• Claremont McKenna College (Claremont, CA)
• Davidson College (Davidson, NC)
• Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA)
• Drew University (Madison, NJ)
• Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, PA)
• Goucher College (Baltimore, MD)
• Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA)
• Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
• Kenyon College (Gambier, OH)
• Lafayette College (Easton, PA)
• Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)
• New York University (New York, NY)
• Occidental College (Los Angeles, CA)
• Pitzer College (Claremont, CA)
• Pomona College (Claremont, CA)
• Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
• Reed College (Portland, OR)
• Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY)
• Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
• Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
• University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
• University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
• University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
• University of Richmond (University of Richmond, VA)
• University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
• Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
• Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
• Yale University (New Haven, CT)