63 Colleges Offering the Best Financial Aid

February 23, 2011

US New and World Report published its 2011 list of colleges that award the most generous financial aid packages. According to the new U.S. News & World Report report 63 schools of 1,700 colleges and universities surveyed claim that they meet their students’ full financial need.

Here is an alphabetized list of the 63 Most Generous Colleges and Universities from US News & World Report.

  1. Amherst College
  2. Barnard College
  3. Bates College
  4. Boston College
  5. Bowdoin College
  6. Brown University
  7. Bryn Mawr College
  8. California Institute of Technology
  9. Carleton College
  10. Claremont McKenna College
  11. Colby College
  12. Colgate University
  13. College of the Holy Cross
  14. Columbia University
  15. Connecticut College
  16. Cornell University
  17. Dartmouth College
  18. Davidson College
  19. Duke University
  20. Emory University
  21. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
  22. Georgetown University
  23. Gettysburg College
  24. Grinnell College
  25. Hamilton College
  26. Harvard University
  27. Harvey Mudd College
  28. Haverford College
  29. Macalester College
  30. MIT
  31. Middlebury College
  32. Mount Holyoke College
  33. Northwestern University
  34. Oberlin College
  35. Occidental College
  36. Pitzer College
  37. Pomona College
  38. Princeton University
  39. Reed College
  40. Rice University
  41. Scripps College
  42. Smith College
  43. St. Olaf College
  44. Stanford University
  45. SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
  46. Swarthmore College
  47. Thomas Aquinas College
  48. Trinity College
  49. Tufts University
  50. University of Chicago
  51. University of Dayton
  52. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  53. University of Northern Colorado
  54. University of Pennsylvania
  55. University of Richmond
  56. University of Virginia
  57. Vassar College
  58. Washington and Lee University
  59. Washington University, St. Louis
  60. Wellesley College
  61. Wesleyan University
  62. Williams College
  63. Yale University

Additional information is available at: http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/articles/2011/02/16/which-colleges-claim-to-meet-students-full-financial-need

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