Advantages of Small Liberal Arts Colleges

One of the hardest parts of the admissions process for Greg was figuring out how to figure out which colleges he was interested in.

A fundamental choice Greg faced early-on was whether he was interested in a small liberal arts college, or a larger university. Mark Montgomery, an independent college counselor and active admissions blogger (Great College Advice) that I follow, has recently published a couple of great posts on the characteristics of liberal arts colleges that may help with this decision making process.

In this first post Mark does a video interview with the Director of Admission at Millsaps College in Jackson Mississippi. In this second one he video interviews a Professor of Economics who focuses on the student/professor interaction at Millsaps. I found the video format Mark used especially effective. In 10-12 minutes you get a really good sense of the personality of Millsaps, some of the characteristics that could make it attractive to you, and by extension characteristics that may be found more broadly at other small liberal arts colleges.

So if you're curious about, or debating the merits of small liberal arts colleges, I suggest you click on the links above and watch Mark's two video interviews.