It turns out that the competition for the nation’s smallest colleges and universities is a little complicated and probably not really worth pursuing except as a counterbalance to the previous post. According to the US Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), there are 424 colleges offering 4-year bachelor’s degrees with total undergraduate enrollment under 300 students. This count includes for profit as well as not-for-profit schools. It also includes an impressive assortment of religious institutions and very specific professional schools.
Perhaps the most famous of the ridiculously-small colleges is Deep Springs, with only 26 male students. Established in 1917 as an educational experiment, Deep Springs is located on a remote ranch in California and enrolls some very very smart young men many of whom eventually move on to the most elite colleges and universities in the nation after spending two years milking cows and discussing Heidegger. Readers of the latest entry in the “admit lit” market, Acceptance by David Marcus, will recognize Deep Springs as the destination school for one of the seven kids counseled by Gwyeth Smith, recently retired from Oyster Bay High School in New York. It’s clearly not an easy school to get into.
With no particular intent beyond simple curiosity, I offer the following list of micro colleges:
College | Location | Size |
Deep Springs | 26 | |
50 | ||
Webb Institute | 90 | |
91 | ||
98 | ||
100 | ||
117 | ||
The Curtis Institute of Music | 132 | |
Art | 141 | |
174 | ||
178 | ||
179 | ||
San Francisco Conservatory of Music | 200 | |
Cleveland Institute of Music | 223 | |
224 | ||
227 | ||
Cogswell Polytechnical College | 230 | |
247 | ||
261 | ||
285 | ||
286 | ||
299 | ||
312 | ||
College of the | 312 |
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