If you pursue a degree in liberal arts, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #2 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in New Hampshire to determine which ones were the best for liberal arts students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 197 degrees in liberal arts annually.
The liberal studies program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Liberal Arts rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for liberal arts schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Liberal Arts Schools in New Hampshire list to help you make the college decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don't forget it.
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the liberal studies degree levels they offer.
It's difficult to beat Nashua Community College if you wish to pursue a degree in liberal arts. Located in the city of Nashua, Nashua Community College is a public college with a small student population.
There were approximately 10 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at Nashua Community College in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat NHTI-Concord's Community College if you want to pursue a degree in liberal arts. NHTI is a small public college located in the fringe town of Concord.
There were about 37 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at NHTI in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts if you want to pursue a degree in liberal arts. Magdalen College is a fairly small private not-for-profit college located in the rural area of Warner.
There were roughly 23 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at Magdalen College in the most recent year we have data available.
Great Bay Community College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in liberal arts. Great Bay Community College is a small public college located in the small suburb of Portsmouth.
There were about 24 liberal arts students who graduated with this degree at Great Bay Community College in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).