College Concert peaked at number three on the Billboard charts and was the largest-selling release by the Stewart-years Trio.

in a New York studio November 14, 1961 and claimed authorship, but they took their names off when Pete Seeger asked them to.

College Concert was the last performance with the Trio by long-time bassist David "Buck" Wheat.

[1] The original liner notes are attributed to the Trio's opening act Ronnie Schell as "America's Slowest Rising Young Comedian".

Allmusic music critic Bruce Eder, while criticizing the thin bass sound, praised the album as "One of the best-selling LPs ever recorded by the Kingston Trio, College Concert is also the album by the trio that holds up best in the decades since... the overall quality of the performance, from the exquisitely arranged "500 Miles" to the rousing version of "Young Roddy M'Corley," was the album's most alluring overall feature.