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Best Colleges With Small Class Sizes

Schools with low student-to-faculty ratios and small enrollments, more personal attention, fewer lecture halls.

1

Cleveland University-Kansas City

Overland Park, KS · Private

Grad100%Net Price$36k/yr10yr Earnings$52kMedian Debt$13kAcceptance69%
2

Carolinas College of Health Sciences

Charlotte, NC · Public

Grad100%Net Price$52k/yr10yr Earnings$65kMedian Debt$15kAcceptance60%
3

Cox College

Springfield, MO · Private

Grad100%10yr Earnings$57kMedian Debt$20kAcceptance100%
4

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ · Private

Grad98%Net Price$15k/yr10yr Earnings$110kMedian Debt$10kAcceptance5%
5

Laboure College of Healthcare

Milton, MA · Private

Grad100%10yr Earnings$62kMedian Debt$25kAcceptance50%
6

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA · Private

Grad96%Net Price$21k/yr10yr Earnings$143kMedian Debt$15kAcceptance5%
7

Duke University

Durham, NC · Private

Grad97%Net Price$22k/yr10yr Earnings$98kMedian Debt$13kAcceptance6%
8

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA · Private

Grad98%Net Price$18k/yr10yr Earnings$102kMedian Debt$14kAcceptance4%
9

Mid-America Technology Center

Wayne, OK · Public

Grad100%10yr Earnings$38k
10

Yale University

New Haven, CT · Private

Grad96%Net Price$22k/yr10yr Earnings$101kMedian Debt$13kAcceptance4%
11

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL · Private

Grad96%Net Price$28k/yr10yr Earnings$92kMedian Debt$15kAcceptance5%
12

Amridge University

Montgomery, AL · Private

Grad100%10yr Earnings$38kMedian Debt$32k
13

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, CA · Private

Grad94%Net Price$15k/yr10yr Earnings$129kAcceptance3%
14

Grace School of Theology

Conroe, TX · Private

Grad100%
15

Columbia University in the City of New York

New York, NY · Private

Grad96%Net Price$23k/yr10yr Earnings$102kMedian Debt$22kAcceptance4%
16

Brown University

Providence, RI · Private

Grad96%Net Price$26k/yr10yr Earnings$93kMedian Debt$11kAcceptance5%
17

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA · Private

Grad97%Net Price$24k/yr10yr Earnings$111kMedian Debt$16kAcceptance5%
18

Dartmouth College

Hanover, NH · Private

Grad96%Net Price$20k/yr10yr Earnings$97kMedian Debt$18kAcceptance5%
19

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL · Private

Grad95%Net Price$27k/yr10yr Earnings$89kMedian Debt$15kAcceptance8%
20

Rice University

Houston, TX · Private

Grad95%Net Price$24k/yr10yr Earnings$90kMedian Debt$11kAcceptance8%
21

Southwest Technical College

Cedar City, UT · Public

Grad95%10yr Earnings$36k
22

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA · Private

Grad94%Net Price$36k/yr10yr Earnings$115kMedian Debt$22kAcceptance12%
23

The Juilliard School

New York, NY · Private

Grad93%Net Price$45k/yr10yr Earnings$38kMedian Debt$26kAcceptance9%
24

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD · Private

Grad94%Net Price$26k/yr10yr Earnings$88kMedian Debt$10kAcceptance6%
25

Amherst College

Amherst, MA · Private

Grad94%Net Price$19k/yr10yr Earnings$78kMedian Debt$14kAcceptance9%
26

Williams College

Williamstown, MA · Private

Grad94%Net Price$16k/yr10yr Earnings$89kMedian Debt$13kAcceptance8%
27

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, IN · Private

Grad95%Net Price$29k/yr10yr Earnings$100kMedian Debt$19kAcceptance11%
28

Emily Griffith Technical College

Denver, CO · Public

Grad97%Net Price$8k/yr10yr Earnings$35k
29

Washington University in St Louis

St. Louis, MO · Private

Grad94%Net Price$22k/yr10yr Earnings$86kMedian Debt$18kAcceptance12%
30

Washington and Lee University

Lexington, VA · Private

Grad94%Net Price$23k/yr10yr Earnings$95kMedian Debt$20kAcceptance14%

How this list is built

Schools with student-to-faculty ratio ≤ 14 and 500+ enrollment, ranked by ratio and graduation rate. For-profit schools are not included, and each list shows at most 30 schools.

Student-faculty ratio: IPEDS. Graduation rate: IPEDS.

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Student-faculty ratio: IPEDS. Graduation rate: IPEDS. Rankings reflect available data and do not constitute endorsement.

Best Colleges With Small Class Sizes. Student-faculty ratio: IPEDS. Graduation rate: IPEDS. Schools with student-to-faculty ratio ≤ 14 and 500+ enrollment, ranked by ratio and graduation rate. For-profit schools are not included, and each list shows at most 30 schools.