Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College (a.k.a. Swarthmore College) America's top liberal arts and sciences college, located in the town of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, is ranked alongside Williams College and Amherst College in the 2015 U.S. News Top 3 U.S. College of Arts and Sciences. The college adheres to small class sizes and rigorous governance, its freshman acceptance rate is less than 20%, and it requires a higher average SAT score for freshmen than students at Duke, Columbia, and Cornell.