New England is a great place to go to college, and you can’t go wrong with a well-rounded liberal arts education. If you agree, then this list is for you! Read on to learn about different liberal arts colleges and universities across New England, from Maine to Rhode Island and other states in between. If you see something that piques your interest, just click the green “Connect me” button to be added to that school’s mailing list; we’ll send them your CollegeXpress account info, and they should be in touch with you shortly. Time to get recruited by some great colleges!
College of the Holy Cross
College of the Holy Cross is an exclusively undergraduate Jesuit liberal arts institution with a 174-acre campus in Worcester, Massachusetts—44 miles from Boston. More than 3,200 students at Holy Cross pursue a variety of majors, minors, and concentrations in the Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences, and Interdisciplinary Studies, with the most popular majors including Psychology, Economics, Political Science, History, and English. The College also offers 27 varsity sports teams, up to 12 intramural sports, 27 club sports teams, 100+ student organizations, and 20 honor societies.
Fisher College
Fisher College is a small, private liberal arts college in Boston, Massachusetts. Although the College’s more than 30 programs are built around the liberal arts, majors reflect expertise in practical fields like management, accounting, fashion merchandising, criminal justice, biology, information technology, and cybersecurity—just to name a few. Fisher’s 1,400+ students benefit from a 14:1 student-faculty ratio, 10 NAIA varsity athletic teams, a new competitive eSports program, and much more.
Salve Regina University
Salve Regina University is a private Catholic liberal arts college on an 80-acre oceanside campus in Newport, Rhode Island. The University community is home to more than 2,800 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in 40+ majors, dozens of minors, and eight combined bachelor's/master's programs, including a five-year BS/MBA and 3+3 Engineering partnership with Washington University in St. Louis. Students at Salve Regina also take advantage of 70 student organizations, 20 Division III sports teams, internships, research, community service, and study abroad opportunities.
Wheaton College
Wheaton College is a private nonsectarian liberal arts college with a 400-acre campus in Norton, Massachusetts—35 miles from Boston. The College offers more than 100 career-connected majors and minors and 600 courses leading to a Bachelor of Arts to approximately 1,700 students. The campus community also enjoys over 100 student organizations, 21 Division III athletic teams, more than a dozen club and intramural sports, one of the world’s oldest-running synchronized swimming programs, and a guaranteed funded internship, research position, or other experiential learning opportunity for each student.
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