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Top 25 Small liberal arts colleges based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 654 small liberal arts colleges headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 337,495 professional contacts across them, including 123,784 with verified work emails. Chicago is the largest hub.
This list covers small liberal arts colleges headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.
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The 25 largest small liberal arts colleges based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9,026 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The George Washington University, an independent academic institution chartered by the Congress of the United States in 1821, dedicates itself to furthering human well-being.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 7,349 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Strong academics, highly personal instruction, energetic campus life, successful graduates, Miami University sets the standard for public higher education on one of America’s…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 6,041 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “James Madison University offers programs on the bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels with its primary emphasis on the undergraduate student.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 5,697 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The best public university in the Northeast.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 5,452 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DePaul University is the nation's largest Catholic university, with more than students and about 300 degree programs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 3,682 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hofstra University can help you get where you want to go, with small classes, dedicated faculty and a beautiful, energized campus, plus all the opportunities of New York City…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 3,597 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The mission of Chapman University is to provide personalized education of distinction that leads to inquiring, ethical, and productive lives as global citizens.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 3,298 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1887, California State University, Chico, is an award-winning public institution in Chico, Northern California, serving over students in more than 150 experiential…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 3,263 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Located in the Twin Cities of Minnesota (USA), the University of St.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 3,204 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Located in the heart of historic Charleston, South Carolina, the College of Charleston is a nationally recognized public liberal arts and sciences university.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 2,940 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Tampa is a medium-sized comprehensive, private university located on approximately 100 acres of prime riverfront land in the heart of downtown Tampa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 2,897 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1878, Duquesne is consistently ranked among the nation's top Catholic universities for its award-winning faculty and horizon-expanding education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 2,877 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Coastal Carolina University is a comprehensive, public liberal arts institution in Conway, South Carolina.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 2,747 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Northern Iowa prides itself on putting students first, and has a reputation for providing exceptional undergraduate education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 2,624 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Liberal Arts College for Women.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 2,604 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Brooklyn College is an innovative liberal arts institution with a history of more than 90 years of academic excellence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 2,533 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Colgate University is defined by its unsurpassed liberal arts education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 2,452 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A private, non-sectarian liberal arts university in Middletown, Conn, founded in 1831, Wesleyan offers its 2,900 undergraduates and 200 graduate students a demanding educational…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 2,434 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded as a music conservatory in 1892, Ithaca College attracts driven students looking to transform their lives, and the future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2,366 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1843 in Worcester, Massachusetts, the College of the Holy Cross is among the nation's leading liberal arts institutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2,158 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Murray State University provides opportunities for students through a high-quality education with experiential learning, academic and personal growth and the ability to secure a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2,134 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bridgewater State University is a public liberal-arts college located in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2,124 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) is Connecticut’s first and only Carnegie-classified Research II university, recognized for its high research activity and commitment…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2,093 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1800 and set in the beautiful Champlain Valley of Vermont, Middlebury College has long been one of the finest liberal arts colleges in the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 2,083 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With over 135 years of tradition, the University of the Incarnate Word is committed to educational excellence in a context of faith in Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Word of God.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: small liberal arts colleges. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names small liberal arts colleges.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of small liberal arts colleges, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name small liberal arts colleges. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Small liberal arts colleges based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 654 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among small liberal arts colleges, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “small liberal arts colleges”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names small liberal arts colleges), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among small liberal arts colleges, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 123,784 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names small liberal arts colleges, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many small liberal arts colleges are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 654 small liberal arts colleges headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
The George Washington University, headquartered in Washington, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most small liberal arts colleges?
Chicago leads with 12 headquartered companies, followed by New York (11) and Columbia (7).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 123,784 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 654 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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