Lists & Rankings

Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, watch over this five-college brood.

This grouping of historically black colleges and universities is committed to providing quality education to African Americans and other students of diversity.

Even though it's a small area, this coastal city boasts some great colleges and universities, not to mention awesome crab cakes.

Students can travel all around Alabam' if they choose to attend a BACHE school.

A trio of great schools in Pennsylvania Dutch country.

These schools offer a "domestic alternative" to study abroad, allowing students to study for a full year at member colleges. Buffalo, New York, is practically a world away from...

These five schools in northern Massachusetts didn't need the bright lights of Boston to succeed. Maybe that's because they chose to stick together.

You think they all go swimming together in Lake Superior too?

These schools are nestled together in the quaint Lehigh Valley area of eastern Pennsylvania.

Way back in the 1980s, the presidents of 50 selective liberal arts colleges had a little conference at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. And the Oberlin Group of Liberal Arts...

This huge consortium is just for doctorate-granting institutions. Undergraduate schools need not apply.

Students going into nonprofit work can expect plenty of support from the schools on this list.

Pittsburgh is famous for a huge, sloppy sandwich that's covered with coleslaw and French fries. We bet all the students there just love it.

Each one of these schools was actually founded by the Religious Society of Friends, a.k.a. the Quakers.

These schools are right in the cradle of the Civil War.

This may be the most spread-out consortium, stretching from Texas to North Carolina.