Comparison Institutions

 

 

Peer institutions are used to compare campus performance with institutions of similar characteristics (e.g., mission, size, endowment).  The University of Puget Sound has identified four groups of comparison institutions: National Peer, Next Step, Premier, and Northwest Peer.  Each group is described briefly below and the members of each group and their locations are listed.

  • National Peers
    Institutions that are similar to Puget Sound.
  • Next Step
    Residential liberal arts institutions with greater resources than Puget Sound.
  • Premier
    Residential liberal arts institutions with much greater resources than Puget Sound.
  • Northwest Peers
    Residential liberal arts institutions in the Pacific Northwest.

National Peer Institutions
Allegheny College Meadville, Pennsylvania Knox College  Galesburg, Illinois
Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York  Lafayette College  Easton, Pennsylvania
Beloit College  Beloit, Wisconsin Lawrence University  Appleton, Wisconsin
Bucknell University  Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Lewis and Clark College  Portland, Oregon
Colorado College  Colorado Springs, Colorado Occidental College  Los Angeles, California
Denison University  Granville, Ohio Rhodes College  Memphis, Tennessee
DePauw University  Greencastle, Indiana Skidmore College  Saratoga Springs, New York
Dickinson College  Carlisle, Pennsylvania St. Lawrence University  Canton, New York
Franklin & Marshall College  Lancaster, Pennsylvania St. Olaf College  Northfield, Minnesota
Furman University  Greenville, South Carolina Union College  Schenectady, New York
Gettysburg College  Gettysburg, Pennsylvania University of the South  Sewanee, Tennessee
Kalamazoo College  Kalamazoo, Michigan Wheaton College  Norton, Massachusetts
 

Willamette University  Salem, Oregon

Next Step Institutions

  
Barnard College  New York, New York

Mount Holyoke College  South Hadley, Massachusetts
Bates College  Lewiston, Maine Oberlin College  Oberlin, Ohio
Colgate University  Hamilton, New York

Reed College  Portland, Oregon
Connecticut College  New London, Connecticut Smith College  North Hampton, Massachusetts
Hamilton College  Clinton, New York Trinity College  Hartford, Connecticut
Kenyon College  Gambier, Ohio Whitman College  Walla Walla, Washington
Macalester College  St. Paul, Minnesota

 

Premier Institutions
  
Amherst College  Amherst, Massachusetts Middlebury College  Middlebury, Vermont
Bowdoin College  Brunswick, Maine Swarthmore College  Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Carleton College  Northfield, Minnesota Vassar College  Poughkeepsie, New York
Claremont McKenna College  Claremont, California Washington and Lee University  Lexington, Virginia
Colby College  Waterville, Maine Wellesley College  Wellesley, Massachusetts
  Davidson College  Davidson, North Carolina Wesleyan University  Middletown, Connecticut
Grinnell College  Grinnell, Iowa Williams College  Williamstown, Massachusetts
Haverford College  Haverford, Pennsylvania  

Pacific Northwest Peer Institutions

  

Lewis & Clark College  Portland, Oregon

Whitman College  Walla Walla, Washington

Reed College  Portland, Oregon

Willamette University  Salem, Oregon