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Williams College
Williams College, founded in 1793 through the estate of Ephraim Williams, a colonial military officer killed in the French and Indian War, is consistently ranked as the number one liberal arts college in the country by US News & World Report, a distinction it has held more often than any other school since the rankings began. The college's "tutorial" system, in which small groups of two students meet weekly with a professor to debate and critique each other's work directly, is modeled on Oxford and Cambridge's teaching methods and gives Williams students a level of direct faculty engagement uncommon even among other elite liberal arts colleges. Williams's remote location in the Berkshires, in the small town of Williamstown, has fostered an unusually self-contained and close-knit residential campus culture, and the school's "Purple Bubble" nickname reflects both its physical isolation and the intensity of the community that forms within it. The college's endowment per student ranks among the very highest of any undergraduate institution in the country, funding need-blind admission and full-need financial aid, and its combination of top-ranked academics, small size, and financial resources has made it the benchmark liberal arts college nationally.
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Harvard University
Harvard University was founded in 1636, making it the oldest institution of higher education in the United States, chartered more than a century before the country itself existed and named after its first benefactor, clergyman John Harvard, who left the fledgling college his library and half his estate upon his death in 1638. Harvard's endowment, the largest of any university in the world at more than $50 billion, funds financial aid, research, and faculty recruiting at a scale no other academic institution can match, and its law, business, and medical schools are each consistently ranked among the very best in their respective fields. The university has produced more United States presidents than any other institution and has more Nobel laureates affiliated with it than almost any other university in the world, a combination of political and scientific influence that's made "Harvard" itself a shorthand, well beyond academia, for elite achievement. Harvard's extreme selectivity, admitting a small fraction of an application pool that regularly exceeds 50,000 students, combined with its historical depth and financial resources, is why it remains the university most people name first when asked to identify the single most prestigious school in the country.
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