US News & Report

In the overall rankings of “Best Liberal Arts Colleges,” Earlham ranked 68th (up slightly from 75th in 2011), slightly below DePauw, St. Olaf, Wabash, Reed, and Beloit and slightly above Kalamazoo, Berea, Wooster and Knox. US News also ranks “Strong Commitment to Teaching” among various institutional categories and among National Liberal Arts Colleges, Earlham ranks eighth, sharing that position with some very good peers. That ranking is as follows: 1. Carleton 2. Swarthmore 3. Grinnell, Oberlin, Williams 6. Amherst, St. Olaf 8. Davidson, Earlham College, Haverford, Wabash 12. Hendrix, Kenyon, Macalester 15. Beloit, Berea, Centre, Lewis & Clark, Pomona, Reed, Rhodes In the ranking of “Proportion of International Students,” Earlham ranks 8th with 16% (after Soka University of America, Tougaloo College, Mount Holyoke, Wesleyan (GA), Bryn Athyn College of New Church, Principia, and College of the Atlantic. You might be interested in another national comparison that was released recently by the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium that focuses on the Baccalaureate Origins of Students Earning Doctorates. That comparsion includes data covering the graduating classes of 1995 - 2004 (i.e. 10-year window) and includes doctorates earned in U.S. institutions over the period of 2000-2009. There are 1457 institutions in the total report. In that listing, Earlham is a very respectable 28th on this list (i.e top 2%). Indeed, as in the past, Earlham is, by a large measure, the highest Indiana school on the list. In fact, Earlham does better on this measure than all but 12 of the top 50 National Liberal Arts Colleges in the US News survey. Moreover, this comparison has special significance in that it is an objective measure of the outcomes of undergraduate education.