Benchmarking Washington and Lee Univ against all colleges
Washington and Lee Univ has the 5th-highest USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (14th place) of the 1,261 private colleges that offer graduate degrees.
Peers
beat out by Williams College (1st place), Middlebury (7th place), Claremont McKenna (8th place), and Vassar (11th place).
Incidentally, none of the 5 is religiously affiliated. All 5 enroll from 1,000 to 4,999 students. None of the 5 is open admission. All 5 offer on-campus housing.
beat Wesleyan Univ (15th place), Smith College (19th place), Colgate (22nd place), and Oberlin (23rd place), and others, ending with Xavier U of Louisiana (178th place).
Incidentally, none of the 5 is religiously affiliated. All 5 enroll from 1,000 to 4,999 students. None of the 5 is open admission. All 5 offer on-campus housing.
beat Wesleyan Univ (15th place), Smith College (19th place), Colgate (22nd place), and Oberlin (23rd place), and others, ending with Xavier U of Louisiana (178th place).
References
- Information on types of degree granted is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
- The US News National Liberal Arts College Rankings are at http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges.