High School Counselor Rankings National Liberal Arts Colleges

High School Counselor Rankings Methodology

In spring 2012, we asked guidance counselors from a nationwide sampling of public high schools in the 2012 U.S. News Best High Schools rankings that were gold, silver, or bronze medal winners, as well as from the largest private independent schools nationwide, to tell us which National Universities and National Liberal Arts Colleges they think offer the best undergraduate education to their students. They rated the universities on a scale of 1 to 5 (with 5 being the top score) or marked "don't know" if they were unfamiliar with that particular college. The two most recent years of survey results, from spring 2011 and spring 2012, were averaged to compute the high school counselor reputation score used in this ranking.

Save Rank School High school counselor score (out of 5)
#77 Alma College

Alma, MI

3.7
#77 DePauw University

Greencastle, IN

3.7
#77 Erskine College 1

Due West, SC

3.7
#77 Georgetown College

Georgetown, KY

3.7
#77 Gettysburg College

Gettysburg, PA

3.7
#77 Gustavus Adolphus College

St. Peter, MN

3.7
#77 Holy Cross College

Notre Dame, IN

3.7
#77 Kalamazoo College

Kalamazoo, MI

3.7
#77 Luther College

Decorah, IA

3.7
#77 Muhlenberg College

Allentown, PA

3.7
#77 New College of Florida

Sarasota, FL

3.7
#77 Ohio Wesleyan University

Delaware, OH

3.7
#77 St. John's University

Collegeville, MN

3.7
#77 Stonehill College

Easton, MA

3.7
#77 University of Puget Sound

Tacoma, WA

3.7
#77 Washington College

Chestertown, MD

3.7
#77 Westminster College

Fulton, MO

3.7
#77 Westmont College

Santa Barbara, CA

3.7
#77 Whitman College

Walla Walla, WA

3.7
#77 William Jewell College

Liberty, MO

3.7
#99 Agnes Scott College

Decatur, GA

3.6
#99 American Jewish University

Bel-Air, CA

3.6
#99 Augustana College

Rock Island, IL

3.6
#99 Beloit College

Beloit, WI

3.6
#99 Bennington College

Bennington, VT

3.6

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