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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that financial stability is important, and I was actually curious about how these colleges fare on that metric. I plugged in each of the schools to Forbes (2023 financial grades) -- the list is below.

Personally, I have some quibbles with Forbes's letter grades, mostly bc the rounding seems generous (for example: Hiram's 2.84 counts as a B, and Lynchburg's 3.23 is a B+). So the numeric grades are useful context.

Anyway, here's the list:

Agnes Scott:  A+ (4.31)
Allegheny: A (3.96)
Antioch - not graded
Austin College: A- (3.83)
Bard: A (4.03)
Beloit: B (3.05)
Birmingham Southern: C- (1.61)
Centre: A+ (4.27)
Clark University: A (3.92)
Cornell College: B+ (3.35)
Denison: A+ (4.45)
Earlham: A+ (4.32)
Eckerd: B- (2.77)
Emory & Henry: A- (3.65)
Evergreen State: not rated
Goucher: A  (3.93)
Guilford: B (2.99)
Hampshire: A- (3.99)
Hendrix: A (3.93)
Hillsdale: A (4.50)
Hiram: B (2.84)
Hope: A- (3.81)
Juniata: A- (3.53)
Kalamazoo: A (4.06)
Knox: A (4.04)
Lawrence: A+ (4.19)
McDaniel: A (3.52)
Millsaps: A (3.93)
New College of Florida: not rated
Ohio Wesleyan: A (3.97)
Reed: A+ (4.50)
Rhodes: A (4.17)
Southwestern: A (4.07)
St. John's College: A+ (4.24)
St. Mary's College of California: A- (3.72)
St. Olaf: A+ (4.31)
University of Lynchburg: B+ (3.23)
University Puget Sound: A (4.05)
Ursinus: B+ (3.46)
Wabash: A+ (4.27)
Wheaton IL: A+ (4.50)
Whitman: A+ (4.32)
Willamette: A (3.88)
Wooster: A (4.06)[/quote]

That's really interesting to compare. I thought some of those were a lot less sound than they are. Very few seem on the brink. I think it's possible that colleges on this list and ones with similar focus may be better-positioned to maneuver than larger state schools facing budget cuts and consolidations, or smaller schools with more prestige who demand full freight.

I don't see schools entirely populated only by very rich and very poor students to be sustainable, or conducive to learning. [/quote]

Yeah, these are interesting. I'm really surprised about Hampshire, which was on the brink of merging a few years back.

I like a lot of these small colleges, and attended one, but I do think paying attention to things like this is smart. I have a friend who went to Antioch in Ohio, which had major financial turmoil, and it was somewhat traumatizing to her college experience. It seems as thought there are more colleges in the US than we are likely to need in the next 25 years, and some will be likely to close. [/quote]

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