City: Swarthmore, PA

Category: Education

Telephone: (610) 328-8000

Address: 500 College Ave.

Description: This private school, founded by the Quakers in 1864, offers more than 50 courses of study that allow students to earn a BA degree in liberal arts or a BS in engineering. In recent years close to half of the school’s students have spent one or two semesters studying abroad in some very unusual parts of the world such as Asia, New Zealand, and Africa.