文理學院（liberal arts college）是美國高校的重要種類之一，以本科教育為主，特征是注重全面綜合教育，設置課程包括藝術(shù)、人文、自然科學、社會科學等各門類。區(qū)別于以就業(yè)為重要指針的各種專業(yè)學校或技術(shù)高校。美國有相當一部分學生從這些文理學院獲得學士學位。在大部分美國人心目中，文理學院往往代表著經(jīng)典、小規(guī)模、高質(zhì)量的本科教育。許多文理學院的學術(shù) 聲譽往往不亞于哈佛耶魯?shù)让?，因而成為很多美國貴族教育子女的首選。

全面發(fā)展，文理兼修，申請成功幾率高，還有獎學金。師生比例1:8，圍著老師上課的感覺一定很是爽！?。。?！

下面是top100文理學院排名

排名   學校
1  Williams College
2  Amherst College安默斯特學院
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科爾蓋特大學
20  United States Naval Academy
21  Hamilton College
22  Colby College
23  Oberlin College
24  Colorado College
25  Bates College貝茨學院
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三一學院
39  Whitman College
40  Bard College巴德學院
41  Furman University
42  Connecticut College
43  DePauw University
44  Franklin And Marshall College富蘭克林與馬歇爾學院
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伊利諾伊衛(wèi)斯理大學
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圣約翰大學
76  Thomas Aquinas College
77  Sweet Briar College
78  Ursinus College
79  Lewis and Clark College路易克拉克大學
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-南方學院
93  Hope College
94  St. Mary's College of Maryland
95  Washington and Jefferson College
96  Westmont College
97  ALBION COLLEGE艾爾比奧學院
98  Augustana College
99  Coe College
100  Hampden-Sydney College