These Are Top 10 Liberal Arts Colleges In US

United States Military Academy at West Point, New York: The academy's mission is "to educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the Nation as an officer in the United States Army."

Claremont McKenna College, California: It has a curricular emphasis on government, economics, public affairs, finance, and international relations. CMC is a member of the Claremont Colleges consortium.

United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland: The Institutes' purpose is to prepare young men and women to enter the lowest commissioned ranks of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.

Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota: Students can choose courses from 33 major programs and 38 minor programs and have the option to design their own major.

Bowdoin College, New England, Brunswick, Maine: The college offers 35 majors and 40 minors, as well as several joint engineering programs with Columbia, Caltech, Dartmouth College, and the University of Maine.

Wellesley College, Massachusetts: Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial grouping of current and former women's colleges in the northeastern United States.

Swarthmore College, Philadelphia: Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States. It was established as a college under the Religious Society of Friends.

Pomona College, Claremont, California: This private liberal arts college was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California.

Amherst College, Massachusetts: The College is a private liberal arts college founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts.

Williams College, Massachusetts: It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was killed in the French and Indian War in 1755.