文理学院（liberal arts college）是美国高校的重要种类之一，以本科教育为主，特征是注重全面综合教育，设置课程包括艺术、人文、自然科学、社会科学等各门类。区别于以就 业为重要指针的各种专业学校或技术高校。美国有相当一部分学生从这些文理学院获得学士学位。在大部分美国人心目中，文理学院往往代表着经典、小规模、高质 量的本科教育。许多文理学院的学术 声誉往往不亚于哈佛耶鲁等名校，因而成为很多美国贵族教育子女的首选。
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下面是top100文理学院排名
排名 学校
1 Williams College
2 Amherst College安默斯特学院
3 Swarthmore College
4 Middlebury College
5 Wellesley College
6 Bowdoin College
7 Pomona College
8 Carleton College
9 Davidson College
10 Haverford College
11 Claremont McKenna College
12 Vassar College
13 Wesleyan University
14 Grinnell College
15 Harvey Mudd College
16 United States Military Academy
17 Washington and Lee University
18 Smith College
19 Colgate University科尔盖特大学
20 United States Naval Academy
21 Hamilton College
22 Colby College
23 Oberlin College
24 Colorado College
25 Bates College贝茨学院
26 Bryn Mawr College
27 Mount Holyoke College
28 Scripps College
29 Macalester College
30 Barnard College
31 Bucknell University
32 University of Richmond
33 Kenyon College
34 Occidental College
35 Lafayette College
36 College of the Holy Cross
37 Sewanee--University of the South
38 Trinity College三一学院
39 Whitman College
40 Bard College巴德学院
41 Furman University
42 Connecticut College
43 DePauw University
44 Franklin And Marshall College富兰克林与马歇尔学院
45 Union College
46 Centre College
47 Dickinson College
48 Skidmore College
49 Gettysburg College
50 Pitzer College
51 Reed College
52 St. Olaf College
53 Denison University
54 Rhodes College
55 Wabash College
56 St. Lawrence University
57 Wheaton College
58 Wheaton College MA
59 Agnes Scott College
60 Lawrence University
61 Southwestern University
62 Beloit College
63 Earlham College
64 Illinois Wesleyan University伊利诺伊卫斯理大学
65 Virginia Military Institute
66 Willamette University
67 Wofford College
68 Austin College
69 College of Wooster
70 Drew University
71 Hobart and William Smith Colleges
72 Kalamazoo College
73 Muhlenberg College
74 Spelman College
75 St.John's University圣约翰大学
76 Thomas Aquinas College
77 Sweet Briar College
78 Ursinus College
79 Lewis and Clark College路易克拉克大学
80 College of St. Benedict
81 Gustavus Adolphus College
82 Hendrix College
83 Knox College
84 University of Puget Sound
85 Allegheny College
86 Cornell College
87 Juniata College
88 Transylvania University
89 Hillsdale College
90 Luther College
91 Millsaps College
92 Birmingham-Southern College伯明翰-南方学院
93 Hope College
94 St. Mary's College of Maryland
95 Washington and Jefferson College
96 Westmont College
97 ALBION COLLEGE艾尔比奥学院
98 Augustana College
99 Coe College
100 Hampden-Sydney College