Researchers estimated the net effects of liberal arts colleges on 19
measures of good practices in undergraduate education grouped into seven
categories. Analyses of 3-year longitudinal data from five liberal arts
colleges, four research universities, and seven regional universities
were conducted. Net of a battery of student precollege characteristics,
whether or not a student was enrolled full-time and lived on campus,
and the academic selectivity of the institution attended, liberal
arts colleges evidenced stronger positive impacts on a broad range of
empirically vetted good practices in undergraduate education than did
either research universities or regional institutions. The impact was
most pronounced in the initial year of postsecondary education.
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