3rd out of 209 liberal arts colleges and 14th for business.
Kiplinger's Personal Finance ranked the college 3rd in its 2019 list of 149 best private liberal arts college values and 6th overall among 500 colleges and universities. In 2015, The Economist ranked Washington and Lee first among all undergraduate institutions in the United States in terms of the positive gap between its students' actual median earnings ten years from graduation and what the publication's statistical model would suggest. Of its findings, the newspaper wrote that "No other college combines the intimate academic setting and broad curriculum of a LAC [liberal arts college] with a potent old-boy network."
=== Admissions and financial aid ===
For the class of 2029, W&L reported the following:
Admissions information
13% Selectivity rate ~ 1,216 admitted out of 8,969 applications
41% Yield rate ~ 499 enrolled out of 1,216 admitted
22% Domestic students of color (students identifying as Asian American, African American, Hispanic, Native …
