| Baccalaureate colleges | ||||||
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| Earlham and peer institutions - weighted ranks among 213 liberal arts colleges | ||||||
| Rank | Institution | Origins: 1995 - 2004 / Bacc Completions: 1990 - 1999 | Rank |
Institution | Origins: 1975 - 2004 / Bacc Completions: 1970 - 1999 | |
| 1 | Harvey Mudd College | 24.3 | 1 | Harvey Mudd College | 23.9 | |
| 2 | Swarthmore College | 20.6 | 2 | Reed College | 19.7 | |
| 3 | Reed College | 19.7 | 3 | Swarthmore College | 19.4 | |
| 4 | Carleton College | 16.8 | 4 | Carleton College | 15.9 | |
| 5 | Oberlin College | 15.5 | 5 | Oberlin College | 15.7 | |
| 6 | Bryn Mawr College | 15.4 | 6 | Bryn Mawr College | 15.2 | |
| 7 | Grinnell College | 14.9 | 7 | Pomona College | 13.9 | |
| 8 | Haverford College | 13.6 | 8 | Haverford College | 13.4 | |
| 9 | Pomona College | 13.3 | 9 | Grinnell College | 12.9 | |
| 10 | Amherst College | 12.8 | 10 | St John''s College | 11.3 | |
| 11 | St John''s College | 12.7 | 11 | Amherst College | 11.1 | |
| 11 | Williams College | 12.7 | 11 | Wellesley College | 11.1 | |
| 13 | Wesleyan University | 11.2 | 13 | Kalamazoo College | 11.0 | |
| 14 | Kalamazoo College | 10.8 | 14 | Barnard College | 10.3 | |
| 15 | Wellesley College | 10.7 | 15 | Earlham College | 10.2 | |
| 16 | Earlham College | 10.0 | 18 | Lawrence University | 9.2 | |
| 17 | Macalester College | 9.4 | 18 | Macalester College | 9.2 | |
| 18 | Lawrence University | 9.3 | 20 | Beloit College | 9.0 | |
| 19 | Beloit College | 9.2 | 22 | College of Wooster | 8.9 | |
| 26 | Hampshire College | 8.7 | 22 | Occidental College | 8.9 | |
| 27 | Occidental College | 8.6 | 26 | Knox College | 8.2 | |
| 28 | Knox College | 8.5 | 32 | St Olaf College | 7.3 | |
| 28 | College of Wooster | 8.5 | 33 | Whitman College | 7.2 | |
| 30 | St Olaf College | 8.4 | 33 | Hampshire College | 7.2 | |
| 32 | Whitman College | 7.7 | 37 | Bates College | 7.0 | |
| 34 | Franklin and Marshall | 7.6 | 38 | Franklin and Marshall | 6.9 | |
| 36 | Bates College | 7.5 | 42 | Rhodes College | 6.7 | |
| 42 | Kenyon College | 6.5 | 45 | Hamilton College | 6.3 | |
| 43 | Colorado College | 6.4 | 49 | Kenyon College | 6.1 | |
| 50 | Hamilton College | 6.2 | 57 | Colorado College | 5.7 | |
| 51 | Rhodes College | 6.1 | 64 | Centre College | 5.4 | |
| 57 | University of the South | 5.7 | 64 | University of the South | 5.4 | |
| 65 | Scripps College | 5.2 | 67 | Trinity College | 5.3 | |
| 65 | Centre College | 5.2 | 71 | Scripps College | 5.2 | |
| 69 | Trinity College | 5.1 | 80 | Connecticut College | 4.9 | |
| 69 | Connecticut College | 5.1 | 80 | Pitzer College | 4.9 | |
| 78 | Pitzer College | 4.7 | 89 | Denison University | 4.7 | |
| 90 | Lafayette College | 4.4 | 99 | Lafayette College | 4.3 | |
| 97 | Denison University | 4.2 | 103 | Washington and Lee | 4.2 | |
| 97 | Washington and Lee | 4.2 | 108 | Lake Forest College | 4.0 | |
| 124 | Lake Forest College | 3.5 | 140 | Guilford College | 3.2 | |
| 140 | Guilford College | 3.1 | ||||