文理学院是美国高校的重要组成部分，规模小而精，崇尚博雅教育，下面是《美国新闻与世界报道》中美国文理学院排名TOP50的学校名单。
| 美国文理学院排名全美TOP50学校名单 | |
| 排名 | 学校名称（英文） |
| 1 | Williams College |
| 2 | Amherst College |
| 3 | Swarthmore College |
| 3 | Wellesley College |
| 5 | Pomona College |
| 6 | Bowdoin College |
| 7 | Carleton College |
| 7 | Claremont McKenna College |
| 7 | Middlebury College |
| 10 | Washington and Lee University |
| 11 | Colby College |
| 11 | Haverford College |
| 11 | Smith College |
| 14 | Grinnell College |
| 14 | Hamilton College |
| 14 | Vassar College |
| 17 | Colgate University |
| 17 | Davidson College |
| 17 | United States Naval Academy |
| 17 | Wesleyan University |
| 21 | Bates College |
| 21 | United States Military Academy |
| 23 | Harvey Mudd College |
| 23 | University of Richmond |
| 25 | Barnard College |
| 25 | Macalester College |
| 27 | Bryn Mawr College |
| 27 | College of the Holy Cross |
| 27 | Colorado College |
| 27 | Kenyon College |
| 27 | Soka University of America |
| 32 | Mount Holyoke College |
| 33 | Oberlin College |
| 33 | Scripps College |
| 35 | Bucknell University |
| 35 | Pitzer College |
| 35 | Thomas Aquinas College |
| 38 | Franklin and Marshall College |
| 39 | Lafayette College |
| 39 | Occidental College |
| 39 | Skidmore College |
| 39 | United States Air Force Academy |
| 43 | Denison University |
| 43 | The University of the South |
| 45 | Union College |
| 46 | Berea College |
| 46 | Connecticut College |
| 46 | DePauw University |
| 46 | Dickinson College |
| 46 | Furman University |
| 46 | Trinity College |
| 46 | Whitman College |
