The Experts' Choice: Colleges Where Life Is Balanced

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* Green "Yes, connect me!" buttons indicate a featured school

Bates College (Lewiston, ME)
Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)
Boston University (Boston, MA)

Yes, connect me!
Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA)
Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
Chicago State University (Chicago, IL)
Clemson University (Clemson, SC)
Colby College (Waterville, ME)
Colgate University (Hamilton, NY)
Colorado College (Colorado Springs, CO)
Connecticut College (New London, CT)
Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
Davidson College (Davidson, NC)
Denison University (Granville, OH)
Duke University (Durham, NC)

Yes, connect me!
Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
Florida Southern College (Lakeland, FL)

Yes, connect me!
Furman University (Greenville, SC)
Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
Gettysburg College (Gettysburg, PA)

Yes, connect me!
Indiana University Bloomington (Bloomington, IN)
James Madison University (Harrisonburg, VA)
Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA)
Loyola University Maryland (Baltimore, MD)

Yes, connect me!
Miami University — Oxford (Oxford, OH)

Yes, connect me!
Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)
New York University (New York, NY)

Yes, connect me!
Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, OK)

Yes, connect me!
Pennsylvania State University — University Park (University Park, PA)
Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, CA)

Yes, connect me!
Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX)
St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY)
Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY)
Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, TX)

Yes, connect me!
The College of Wooster (Wooster, OH)
Tufts University (Medford, MA)
Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)
Union College (Schenectady, NY)
University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL)
University of Michigan — Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)

Yes, connect me!
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)

Yes, connect me!
University of Portland (Portland, OR)

Yes, connect me!
University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA)
University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

Yes, connect me!
University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
University of Wisconsin — Madison (Madison, WI)
Vanderbilt University* (Nashville, TN): The Top Choice

Yes, connect me!
Villanova University (Villanova, PA)

Yes, connect me!
Wake Forest University (Winston Salem, NC)
Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)

Source: College Finder Research

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