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Wheaton is one of 50 colleges in The National Review College Guide: America’s 50 Top Liberal Arts Schools, edited by Charles Sykes and Brad Miner. "At Wheaton," the Guide reports, "classes are small, the professors actually teach, and the curriculum is informed with solid and well-articulated values."
Wheaton is one of 40 colleges in Loren Pope’s book, Colleges That Change Lives. Pope commends Wheaton for "its concern with good moral compasses and strong value systems" and "its impressive record of producing contributors to society."
The report, Maintaining American Scientific Productivity, identifies Wheaton among the group of 50 liberal arts colleges that produce the best science graduates in the nation. Students at these schools have a high tendency to earn Ph.D.s and enter scientific careers.
Wheaton College has been named to the Honor Roll of Character Building Colleges every year since the John Templeton Foundation established the list in 1989.
In last year's U.S. News & World Report rankings, Wheaton College ranked 61st out of 217 Best National Liberal Arts Colleges.
Wheaton College ranked 11th in the nation in the total number of graduates (all fields) who went on to earn doctorates according to Franklin and Marshall University's latest survey, which included more than 900 private colleges and universities.
The January 2004 issue of Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine ranked Wheaton College 54th in a list of 100 national “Private Colleges Worth the Price.” Putting itself “in the shoes of parents who want excellence for their children but who also care how much it costs,” the magazine looked for “gems among the nation's 1,600 private schools.”
Wheaton offers men and women intercollegiate participation in 22 different sports as a member of the no scholarship NCAA Division III.
Wheaton teams have won 34 conference titles over the past five years in ten different sports. More than 75 students have earned All-American recognition.
Graduates of Wheaton’s Conservatory of Music go on to respected graduate schools of music across the United States, including Eastman, Peabody, Indiana, Boston, New England Conservatory, Juilliard, and Yale.
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