	Wellesley College 2016 University Academic Rankings
Wellesley College is a private, women's, liberal-arts college located in the town of Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States, west of neighboring Boston. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant, Wellesley is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges. Wellesley is home to 56 departmental and interdepartmental majors spanning the liberal arts, as well as over 150 student clubs and organizations. The college is also known for allowing its students to cross-register at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brandeis, Babson College and Olin College. Notable alumnae include Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Soong Mei-ling, Cokie Roberts, and Diane Sawyer. Wellesley athletes compete in the NCAA Division III New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference. In 2016, Wellesley was ranked the fourth best liberal arts college in the United States by U.S. News & World Report. Also, Forbes magazine in 2015 ranked Wellesley 26th among all U.S. colleges and universities. Wellesley is currently the highest endowed women's college in the world, with an endowment of nearly $1.85 billion and has an undergraduate acceptance rate of 28%. History Wellesley was founded by Pauline and Henry Fowle Durant, believers in educational opportunity for women, who intended that the college should prepare women for "...great conflicts, for vast reforms in social life". Its charter was signed on March 17, 1870, by Massachusetts Governor William Claflin. The original name of the college was the Wellesley Female Seminary; its renaming to Wellesley College was approved by the Massachusetts legislature on March 7, 1873. Wellesley first opened its doors to students on September 8, 1875. The first president of Wellesley was Ada Howard. There have been twelve more presidents in its history: Alice Elvira Freeman Palmer, Helen Almira Shafer, Julia Josephine Thomas Irvine, Caroline Hazard, Ellen Fitz Pendleton, Mildred H. McAfee (later Mildred McAfee Horton), Margaret Clapp, Ruth M. Adams, Barbara Warne Newell, Nannerl Overholser Keohane (later the president of Duke University from 1993-2004), Diana Chapman Walsh, and H. Kim Bottomly. The original architecture of the college consisted of one very large building, College Hall, which was approximately 150 metres (490 ft) in length and five stories in height. The architect was Hammatt Billings. From its completion in 1875 until its destruction by fire in 1914, it was both an academic building and residential building. On March 17, 1914, College Hall was destroyed by fire, the precise cause of which was never officially established. The fire was first noticed by students who lived on the fourth floor near the zoology laboratory. It has been suggested that an electrical or chemical accident in this laboratory-specifically, an electrical incubator used in the breeding of beetles-triggered the fire. After the loss of the central College Hall in 1914, the college adopted a master plan in 1921 and expanded into several new buildings. The campus hosted a Naval Reserve Officer training program during the Second World War and began to significantly revise its curriculum after the war and through the late 1960s. Campus The 500-acre (200 ha) campus includes Lake Waban, evergreen and deciduous woodlands, and open meadows. Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., Boston's preeminent landscape architect at the beginning of the 20th century, described Wellesley's landscape as "not merely beautiful, but with a marked individual character not represented so far as I know on the ground of any other college in the country". He also wrote: "I must admit that the exceedingly intricate and complex topography and the peculiarly scattered arrangement of most of the buildings somewhat baffled me". The original master plan for Wellesley's campus landscape was deve ... [more on wikipedia]

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Wellesley College Details

Wellesley College Details
detail	value
state	Massachusetts
conference	New England Women's & Men's At...
public	Private
scores	2125/1417/32
level	Elite
rank	[78
overall ROI rank	[158
size	small
undergrads	2323
grads	0
price	61088
drop	8
stem	16
research	0
scores valid	True

Common Questions...

What are the academic rankings for Wellesley College?

1. number 78 for Academics.

2. number 158 for ROI (Return on Investment).

What universities are similar to Wellesley College?

1. Middlebury College

2. Hamilton College

3. Washington and Lee University

4. Wesleyan University

5. Amherst College

6. Pomona College

7. Dickinson College

National Academic Rankings

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Wellesley College National Academic Rankings

Wellesley College National Academic Rankings
category	rank	scores	difficulty	smartest	brainpower	faculty	research	salary ROI	overall ROI
Top250	78	29	46	143	73	153	159	222	158
All	69	29	45	91	71	82	82	96	93
All Nonivy	61	22	38	87	64	79	79	95	89
Private	42	28	40	65	40	53	53	89	72
New England Region	38	16	24	63	34	60	60	85	60
State of Massachusetts	11	7	7	12	10	12	12	23	16
Top Ten Top250	78	29	46	143	73	153	159	222	158

Peer Universities / Similar Universities

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Wellesley College Peer Universities, Similar Universities to Wellesley College

Wellesley College Peer Universities, Similar Universities to Wellesley College
match	university	state	conference	public	level	rank	overall ROI
86.13	Middlebury College	Vermont	New England Small College Ath Conf	Private	Elite	90	135
85.46	Hamilton College	New York	New England Small College Ath Conf	Private	Elite	115	153
85.42	Washington and Lee University	Virginia	Old Dominion Athletic Conference	Private	Elite	117	46
85.29	Wesleyan University	Connecticut	New England Small College Ath Conf	Private	Elite	73	137
85.14	Amherst College	Massachusetts	New England Small College Ath Conf	Private	Elite	86	158
84.74	Pomona College	California	Southern California Intercoll ...	Private	Elite	52	125
79.88	Dickinson College	Pennsylvania	Centennial Conference	Private	Excellent	187	201
79.73	Vassar College	New York	Upstate Collegiate Athletic As...	Private	Elite	82	177
79.70	Wheaton College	Illinois	College Conference of Illinois...	Private	Excellent	149	114
79.66	Gettysburg College	Pennsylvania	Centennial Conference	Private	Excellent	170	148
79.59	Lewis & Clark College	Oregon	Northwest Conference	Private	Excellent	179	221
79.35	Barnard College	New York	Ivy League	Private	Excellent	104	176
79.28	Macalester College	Minnesota	Minnesota Intercollegiate Ath Conf	Private	Excellent	133	146
79.22	Colorado College	Colorado	Southern Collegiate Athletic C...	Private	Excellent	149	160
79.19	Occidental College	California	Southern California Intercoll ...	Private	Excellent	158	162
79.16	Rhodes College	Tennessee	Southern Athletic Association	Private	Excellent	191	147
78.72	Colgate University	New York	Patriot League	Private	Excellent	92	83
78.56	Oberlin College	Ohio	North Coast Athletic Conference	Private	Excellent	81	55
78.51	Bowdoin College	Maine	New England Small College Ath Conf	Private	Elite	64	162
78.41	Davidson College	North Carolina	Pioneer Football League / Atla...	Private	Excellent	155	129
78.10	Kenyon College	Ohio	North Coast Athletic Conference	Private	Excellent	147	91
77.96	University of Richmond	Virginia	Colonial Athletic Association ...	Private	Excellent	128	150
77.07	Claremont McKenna College	California	Southern California Intercoll ...	Private	Elite	95	118
76.94	Dartmouth College	New Hampshire	Ivy League	Private	Elite	19	21
76.16	Yale University	Connecticut	Ivy League	Private	Elite	3	37
76.03	University of Chicago	Illinois	University Athletic Association	Private	Elite	10	14
75.70	Brown University	Rhode Island	Ivy League	Private	Elite	25	34
75.17	University of Notre Dame	Indiana	Atlantic Coast Conference	Private	Elite	31	12
74.67	University of Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania	Ivy League	Private	Elite	12	7
74.16	University of Southern California	California	Pacific 12 Conference	Private	Elite	22	81
70.82	Brandeis University	Massachusetts	University Athletic Association	Private	Excellent	46	116
69.85	Wake Forest University	North Carolina	Atlantic Coast Conference	Private	Excellent	66	50
69.49	Santa Clara University	California	West Coast Conference	Private	Excellent	123	98
69.13	College of William and Mary	Virginia	Colonial Athletic Association	Public	Excellent	54	60
69.09	Southern Methodist University	Texas	American Athletic Conference	Private	Excellent	80	73
68.64	Emory University	Georgia	University Athletic Association	Private	Excellent	36	29
68.24	Boston College	Massachusetts	Atlantic Coast Conference	Private	Excellent	47	75
68.11	George Washington University	Washington DC	Atlantic 10 Conference	Private	Excellent	51	135
67.53	Boston University	Massachusetts	Patriot League	Private	Excellent	45	116
67.51	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	North Carolina	Atlantic Coast Conference	Public	Excellent	37	64

Academic Peer Universities / Similar Academics

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Wellesley College Academic Peer Universities, Similar Academic Universities to Wellesley College

Wellesley College Academic Peer Universities, Similar Academic Universities to Wellesley College
match	university	state	conference	public	level	rank	overall ROI
96.95	Amherst College	Massachusetts	New England Small College Ath Conf	Private	Elite	86	158
96.61	Carleton College	Minnesota	Midwest Conference	Private	Elite	84	43
95.41	Wesleyan University	Connecticut	New England Small College Ath Conf	Private	Elite	73	137
94.70	Vassar College	New York	Upstate Collegiate Athletic As...	Private	Elite	82	177
93.82	Oberlin College	Ohio	North Coast Athletic Conference	Private	Excellent	81	55
92.36	Boston College	Massachusetts	Atlantic Coast Conference	Private	Excellent	47	75
91.49	George Washington University	Washington DC	Atlantic 10 Conference	Private	Excellent	51	135
90.55	Southern Methodist University	Texas	American Athletic Conference	Private	Excellent	80	73
90.23	Patriot League (Average)	-	Patriot League	-Conf-	Excellent	-	43
90.16	United States Air Force Academy	Colorado	Mountain West Conference	Public	Excellent	91	30
88.29	Atlantic Coast Conference (Low)	-	Atlantic Coast Conference	-Conf-	Excellent	-	42
88.19	Boston University	Massachusetts	Patriot League	Private	Excellent	45	116
88.09	Colonial Athletic Association (Average)	-	Colonial Athletic Association	-Conf-	Excellent	-	112
87.83	Polytechnic Institute of New York University	New York	No Reported Affiliation	Private	Good	76	72
87.75	SUNY at Binghamton	New York	America East	Public	Excellent	65	125
87.51	Lehigh University	Pennsylvania	Patriot League	Private	Excellent	69	32
85.46	Brigham Young University-Provo	Utah	Other / West Coast Conference	Private	Good	72	27
82.14	University of Georgia	Georgia	Southeastern Conference	Public	Good	82	65
80.50	Big Ten Conference (Low)	-	Big Ten Conference	-Conf-	Good	-	51
79.95	Clemson University	South Carolina	Atlantic Coast Conference	Public	AboveAverage	98	51
79.46	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	Virginia	Atlantic Coast Conference	Public	Good	75	40
78.95	Florida State University	Florida	Atlantic Coast Conference	Public	AboveAverage	76	104
78.95	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	North Carolina	Atlantic Coast Conference	Public	AboveAverage	58	31
78.28	University of South Carolina-Columbia	South Carolina	Southeastern Conference	Public	AboveAverage	93	130
76.54	University of Colorado Boulder	Colorado	Pacific 12 Conference	Public	AboveAverage	79	59
73.48	University of South Florida	Florida	American Athletic Conference	Public	AboveAverage	94	113

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