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Kenyon College
Kenyon College, founded in 1824, has built one of the strongest reputations in the country for undergraduate creative writing, a distinction traced in part to The Kenyon Review, a literary journal founded on campus in 1939 that remains one of the most respected literary publications in the United States. The college's rural, self-contained campus in Gambier, Ohio — a village that essentially exists because of the college — has fostered a tight-knit residential culture, and Kenyon's Middle Path, a mile-long walkway running through the heart of campus, has become the school's defining physical and symbolic landmark. Kenyon's English department has produced a disproportionate number of prominent novelists, poets, and journalists relative to the college's small size, a reputation that continues to draw students specifically interested in creative writing to a rural Ohio campus rather than a more urban literary hub. The college's combination of a strong overall liberal arts curriculum with a genuinely elite creative writing reputation, all within a small, isolated campus community, gives Kenyon a distinctive identity among national liberal arts colleges, one built as much around its literary tradition as its broader academic rankings.
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Oberlin College
Oberlin College, founded in 1833, was the first coeducational college in the United States to regularly admit women alongside men, and it became one of the first American colleges to admit Black students as well, a dual founding commitment to inclusion that predated the Civil War by decades and shaped Oberlin's institutional identity ever since. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, founded in 1865 and now integrated with the college, is one of the oldest continuously operating music conservatories in the country and consistently ranks among the best undergraduate music programs, letting students pursue a full liberal arts degree alongside rigorous conservatory-level musical training. Oberlin's campus was a significant stop on the Underground Railroad before the Civil War, and the town's and college's shared abolitionist history is preserved and actively taught as part of the institution's identity, distinguishing it from peer liberal arts colleges founded with less explicit social-reform missions. The college's combination of rigorous liberal arts academics, a top-tier attached conservatory, and a long history of student activism has made Oberlin a consistent draw for students seeking a politically engaged, artistically rich small-college environment, and its dual-degree program remains one of the only ways to combine elite liberal arts study with conservatory-level music training at a single institution.
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