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The Happy Colleges

Where are students smiling around campus at all times? Here are the schools counselors say their kids are the happiest at.

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• Allegheny College (Meadville, PA)
• Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
• Austin College (Sherman, TX)
• Babson College (Babson Park, MA)
• Barnard College (New York, NY)
• Bates College (Lewiston, ME)
• Beloit College (Beloit, WI)
• Bentley University (Waltham, MA)
• Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)
• Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
• Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
• Brown University (Providence, RI)
• Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA)
• California Polytechnic State University — San Luis Obispo (San Luis Obispo, CA)
• Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
• Claremont McKenna College (Claremont, CA)
• Clemson University (Clemson, SC)
• Colby College (Waterville, ME)
• Colgate University (Hamilton, NY)
• College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA)
• College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA)
• Columbia University (New York, NY)
• Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
• Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
• Davidson College (Davidson, NC)
• DePaul University (Chicago, IL)
• Duke University (Durham, NC)
• Furman University (Greenville, SC)
• Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
• Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA)
• Grove City College (Grove City, PA)
• Hamilton College (Clinton, NY)
• Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, CA)
• Heidelberg University (Tiffin, OH)
• Hollins University (Roanoke, VA)
• Kalamazoo College (Kalamazoo, MI)
• Kenyon College (Gambier, OH)
• Lawrence University (Appleton, WI)
• Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA)
• Lesley University (Cambridge, MA)
• Macalester College (St. Paul, MN)
• Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
• McGill University (Montreal, CAN)
• Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)
• Montana State University (MT)
• Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA)
• Muhlenberg College (Allentown, PA)
• New York University (New York, NY)
• Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
• Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
• Ohio State University — Columbus (Columbus, OH)
• Ohio University (Athens, OH)
• Pennsylvania State University — University Park (University Park, PA)
• Pomona College (Claremont, CA)
• Quinnipiac University (Hamden, CT)
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY)
• Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI)
• Rhodes College (Memphis, TN)
• Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY)
• Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, IN)
• Saint Anselm College (Manchester, NH)
• Scripps College (Claremont, CA)
• Sewanee: The University of the South (Sewanee, TN)
• Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY)
• Soka University of America (Aliso Viejo, CA)
• St. Louis University (St. Louis, MO)
• St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN)
• Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
• Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
• The College of Wooster (Wooster, OH)
• The Cooper Union (New York, NY)
• The George Washington University (Washington, DC)
• The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
• The University of Tulsa (Tulsa, OK)
• Transylvania University (Lexington, KY)
• Trinity College (Hartford, CT)
• Union College (Schenectady, NY)
• University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
• University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, CA)
• University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
• University of Delaware (Newark, DE)
• University of Michigan — Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
• University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
• University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
• University of Portland (Portland, OR)
• University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
• University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, CAN)
• University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
• University of Wisconsin — Madison (Madison, WI)
• Ursinus College (Collegeville, PA)
• Valparaiso University (Valparaiso, IN)
• Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
• Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
• Villanova University (Villanova, PA)
• Wake Forest University (Winston Salem, NC)
• Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)
• Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA)
• Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA)
• Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
• Western Washington University (Bellingham, WA)
• Westmont College (Santa Barbara, CA)
• Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA)
• Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
• Yale University (New Haven, CT)