Colleges With the Smallest Student-Faculty Ratios

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1. California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA): 3:1
1. Manhattan School of Music (New York, NY): 3:1
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA): 3:1
1. Paier College of Art (Hamden, CT): 3:1
1. Shasta Bible College and Graduate School (Redding, CA): 3:1
1. VanderCook College of Music (Chicago, IL): 3:1
2. Antioch University (Yellow Springs, OH): 4:1
2. Juilliard School (New York, NY): 4:1
2. SUNY Korea (Yeonsu-Gu, Incheon): 4:1
3. Chamberlain University—Houston (Houston, TX): 5:1
3. Cleveland Institute of Music (Cleveland, OH): 5:1
3. Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico (San Juan, PR): 5:1
3. Princeton University (Princeton, NJ): 5:1

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3. Rush University (Chicago, IL): 5:1
3. Sweet Briar College (Sweet Briar, VA): 5:1
3. The Boston Conservatory (Boston, MA): 5:1

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3. The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL): 5:1

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4. Bryn Athyn College (Bryn Athyn, PA): 6:1
4. Columbia University (New York, NY): 6:1

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4. Duke University (Durham, NC): 6:1

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4. Gallaudet University (Washington, DC): 6:1
4. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA): 6:1
4. Landmark College (Putney, VT): 6:1
4. Maharishi University of Management (Fairfield, IA): 6:1
4. Northwestern University (Evanston, IL): 6:1
4. Principia College (Elsah, IL): 6:1
4. Rice University (Houston, TX): 6:1
4. School of Visual Arts (New York, NY): 6:1
4. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (New York, NY): 6:1
4. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA): 6:1
4. Yale University (New Haven, CT): 6:1
5. Alaska Bible College (Palmer, AK): 7:1
5. Amherst College (Amherst, MA): 7:1
5. Brown University (Providence, RI): 7:1

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5. Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH): 7:1
5. Design Institute of San Diego (San Diego, CA): 7:1
5. Institute of American Indian Arts (Santa Fe, NM): 7:1
5. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD): 7:1

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5. San Francisco Conservatory of Music (San Francisco, CA): 7:1
5. St. John's College (Annapolis, MD): 7:1
5. Stephens College (Columbia, MO): 7:1
5. The Catholic University of America (Washington, DC): 7:1
5. United States Coast Guard Academy (New London, CT): 7:1
5. United States Military Academy (West Point, NY): 7:1
5. University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem, NC): 7:1
5. University of the Potomac (Washington, DC): 7:1
5. Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN): 7:1
5. Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO): 7:1
5. Williams College (Williamstown, MA): 7:1
5. Yeshiva University (New York, NY): 7:1

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