Continuing our guide to top-ranked colleges, from 26 to 100, our criteria includes academic excellence, sports, student life, campus size, spiritual formation and Catholic ethos.
Aquinas College
Grand Rapid, Michigan
Aquinas College is a private Roman Catholic liberal arts college in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Founded in 1886 under the name Novitiate Normal School, Aquinas College today has 1,059 full-time undergraduates. With an SAT range of 1000-1170, Aquinas accepts 89% of applicants and graduates 60% of its students. It has an average tuition fee of $36,000 and this tends to drop to around $18,000 for most after aid. Aquinas College is rooted in the Dominican traditions and strives “to create an environment in which integrity is prized and practised”.
