Collaborative Environment

 One of the benefits of receiving a Liberal Arts education is the acquisition of skills to work in groups, something employers value highly. Liberal Arts Colleges are more likely to have an environment that fosters teamwork and support among students, rather than a cutthroat campus.

For this ranking, we asked students to rate their campus on a scale from “highly competitive” to “highly collaborative.” The more academically collaborative environments often correlated with higher student satisfaction levels at these schools. Here is the list of the most collaborative Liberal Arts schools.

Top 20 Liberal Arts Colleges with the Most Collaborative Academic Environments

Ranking		School	State
1		Hampshire College	MA
2		Carleton College	MN
3		Oberlin College	OH
4		Whitman College	WA
5		Chapman University	CA
6		Colorado College	CO
7		Bryn Mawr College	PA
8		Goucher College	MD
9		Pitzer College	CA
10		Eckerd College	FL
11		Westminster College	MO
12		Cornell College	IA
13		Kenyon College	OH
14		California Lutheran University	CA
15		Skidmore College	NY
16		The College of Wooster	OH
17		Muhlenberg College	PA
18		Hamilton College	NY
19		Linfield College	OR
20		Whittier College	CA