Hanover Hanover College (also known as Hanover) is a liberal arts college in the United States that focuses on providing a liberal arts education and is one of the few colleges in the United States with a student-to-faculty ratio of less than 1:9. The college was ranked by U.S. News as one of the "Top 100 Liberal Arts Colleges" and "Top 50 Most Valuable Colleges" and was ranked 113th in the 2015 list of U.S. liberal arts colleges.