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The 100 Happiest Colleges

As decision time looms for high school seniors, The Daily Beast ranks America’s colleges using the criterion—besides academics—that students most value: quality of life. VIEW OUR GALLERY.

#1, Claremont McKenna College

#2, Harvard University

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#3, Pomona College

#4, Rice University

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#5, Harvey Mudd College

#6, Scripps College

#7, Stanford University

#8,California Institute of Technology

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#9, Yale University

#10, Bowdoin College

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#11, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology

STEPHAN SAVOIA

#12, Occidental College

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#13, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

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#14, Haverford College

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#15, Wellesley College

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#16, University of California, Irvine

#17, Colorado College

#18, Brown University

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#19, Davidson College

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#20, Boston College

#21, Bryn Mawr College

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#22, Pitzer College

#23, University of Texas, Austin

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#24, Amherst College

#25, Washington University in St. Louis

#26, University of California, Davis

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#27, Princeton University

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#28, University of California, Santa Barbara

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#29, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

#30, Dartmouth College

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#31, University of Southern California

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#32, uMacalester College

#33, University of California, Berkeley

#34, University of Georgia

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#35, College of the Holy Cross

#36, Barnard College

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#37, Bucknell University

#38, Middlebury College

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#39, University of California, San Diego

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#40, University of Chicago

#41, Grinnell College

CHARLIE NEIBERGALL

#42, Duke University

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#43, Furman University

#44, Carleton College

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#45, University of Richmond

#46, St. Olaf College

#47, Williams College

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#48, University of Virginia

#49, Mount Holyoke College

NANCY PALMIERI

#50, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus

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#50 - #100

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