| SOCIAL SCIENCES | |||||||
| Earlham and peer institutions - weighted ranks among 1,469 institutions | |||||||
| Institution Name | Weighted Rank: 1971-1980 | Weighted Rank: 1976-1985 | Weighted Rank: 1981-1990 | Weighted Rank: 1986-1995 | Weighted Rank: 1991-2000 | Weighted Rank: 1995 - 2004 | Weighted Rank: 1975 - 2004 |
| Reed College | 6 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 4 |
| Oberlin College | 4 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 5 |
| Grinnell College | 5 | 8 | 16 | 35 | 23 | 4 | 7 |
| Carleton College | 11 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 9 | 8 |
| Haverford College | 8 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 10 |
| Beloit College | 16 | 12 | |||||
| Macalester College | 45 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 15 | 14 | 14 |
| Occidental College | 49 | 23 | |||||
| Hampshire College | 20 | 27 | |||||
| Earlham College | 72 | 37 | 9 | 19 | 17 | 27 | 29 |
| Kalamazoo College | 41 | 32 | 20 | 25 | 35 | 61 | 32 |
| Whitman College | 26 | 38 | |||||
| Kenyon College | 56 | 44 | 36 | 41 | 50 | 37 | 45 |
| Franklin and Marshall College | 30 | 46 | |||||
| College of Wooster, The | 39 | 67 | 49 | 52 | 57 | 56 | 47 |
| Knox College | 83 | 50 | |||||
| Lawrence University | 66 | 51 | |||||
| Colorado College | 52 | 60 | |||||
| Bates College | 60 | 62 | |||||
| Pitzer College | 75 | 63 | |||||
| Hamilton College | 67 | 64 | |||||
| Rhodes College | 70 | 81 | |||||
| St Olaf College | 89 | 91 | |||||
| Trinity College (Hartford, CT) | 99 | 94 | |||||
| Washington and Lee University | 97 | 98 | |||||
| Scripps College | 72 | 102 | |||||
| Connecticut College | 108 | 104 | |||||
| Denison University | 226 | 117 | 83 | 122 | 199 | 167 | 120 |
| University of the South | 73 | 126 | |||||
| Centre College | 164 | 147 | |||||
| Lafayette College | 139 | 152 | |||||
| Lake Forest College | 205 | 177 | |||||
| Guilford College | 584 | 390 | 221 | 150 | 359 | 354 | 298 |