Selected Colleges for Student Athletes*
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Financial Aid | ||||
Need | Need | Academic | Athletic | |
Based | Blind | Merit | Merit | |
Division I | ||||
Ivy League | ||||
Princeton University (100) | √ | √ | ||
Harvard University (98) | √ | √ | ||
Columbia University (97) | √ | √ | ||
Yale University (96) | √ | √ | ||
Univ. of Pennsylvania (94) | √ | √ | ||
Dartmouth College (91) | √ | √ | ||
Brown University (88) | √ | √ | ||
Cornell University (86) | √ | √ | ||
Patriot League | ||||
U.S. Naval Academy (93) | √ | √ | ||
U.S. Military Academy (88) | √ | √ | ||
Colgate University (87) | √ | √ | ||
Bucknell University (79) | √ | √ | √ | |
College of the Holy Cross (78) | √ | √ | √ | |
Lafayette College (76) | √ | √ | √ | |
Lehigh University (70) | √ | √ | √ | |
American Univ. (56) | x | |||
Atlantic Coast Conference | ||||
Duke University (92) | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Notre Dame (85) | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Univ. of Virginia (79) | √ | √ | √ | |
Wake Forest University (78) | √ | √ | √ | |
Univ. of North Carolina (78) | √ | √ | √ | |
Georgia Tech (75) | √ | √ | √ | |
Boston College (75) | √ | √ | √ | |
Univ. of Miami (70) | √ | √ | √ | |
Syracuse (62) | √ | √ | √ | |
PAC 10 | ||||
Stanford University (95) | √ | √ | √ | √ |
UCLA (84) | √ | √ | √ | |
Univ. of Cal. Berkeley (82) | √ | √ | √ | |
Univ. of Southern Cal. (80) | √ | √ | √ | |
Univ. of Washington (60) | √ | √ | √ | |
Big 10 | ||||
Northwestern University (93) | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Univ. of Michigan (80) | √ | √ | √ | |
Univ. of Wisconsin (65) | √ | √ | √ | |
Univ. of. Illinois (64) | √ | √ | √ | |
Ohio State (62) | √ | √ | √ | |
Purdue (61) | √ | √ | √ | |
Penn State (61) | √ | √ | √ | |
Rutgers (60) | √ | √ | √ | |
Other Division I | ||||
Vanderbilt University (88) | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Rice University (87) | √ | √ | √ | √ |
University of Richmond (86) | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Georgetown University (81) | √ | √ | √ | |
William and Mary (74) | √ | √ | √ | |
Tulane (73) | √ | √ | √ | |
Univ. of Florida (71) | √ | √ | √ | |
Northeastern University (70) | √ | √ | √ | |
Boston University (67) | √ | √ | √ | |
Villanova (65) | √ | √ | √ | |
Pepperdine University (63) | √ | √ | √ | |
UNH (55) | √ | √ | √ | |
Division II | ||||
Northeast - 10 Conference | ||||
St. Anselm College (55) | √ | √ | √ | |
St. Michaels College (53) | √ | √ | √ | |
Stonehill College (53) | √ | √ | √ | |
UMass Lowell (39) | √ | √ | √ | |
Bentley University | √ | √ | √ | |
Franklin Pierce University | √ | √ | √ | |
Merrimack College | √ | √ | √ | |
Southern NH University | √ | √ | √ | |
Univ. of New Haven | √ | √ | √ |
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Need | Need | Academic | Athletic | |
Based | Blind | Merit | Merit | |
Division III | ||||
NESCAC | ||||
Williams College (100) | √ | √ | ||
Amherst College (98) | √ | √ | ||
Bowdoin College (93) | √ | √ | ||
Middlebury College (91) | √ | √ | ||
Hamilton College (91) | √ | √ | ||
Colby College (88) | √ | |||
Wesleyan University (87) | √ | |||
Bates College (86) | √ | |||
Tufts University (77) | √ | |||
Trinity College (74) | √ | |||
Connecticut College (72) | √ | |||
Liberty League | ||||
Vassar College (89) | √ | √ | ||
Skidmore College (78) | √ | √ | ||
Union College (74) | √ | √ | ||
St. Lawrence University (70) | √ | √ | ||
Bard College (70) | ||||
RPI (69) | √ | √ | ||
Hobart & Wm. Smith (64) | √ | √ | ||
NEWMAC | ||||
MIT (96) | √ | |||
Wellesley College (94) | √ | √ | ||
Smith College (88) | √ | √ | ||
Mount Holyoke College (79) | √ | |||
WPI (66) | √ | √ | ||
Wheaton College (MA) (61) | √ | √ | ||
Clark (60) | √ | √ | ||
Babson College | √ | √ | ||
Emerson | √ | √ | ||
Springfield College | √ | √ | ||
U.S. Coast Guard Academy | √ | √ | ||
University Athletic Association | ||||
University of Chicago (95) | √ | √ | ||
Washington U. St. Louis (87) | √ | √ | ||
Emory University (83) | √ | √ | ||
Carnegie Mellon Univ. (79) | √ | √ | ||
New York University (77) | √ | √ | ||
Univ. of Rochester (76) | √ | √ | ||
Brandeis University (72) | √ | √ | ||
Case Western Reserve (72) | √ | √ | ||
Other Division III | ||||
Swarthmore College (95) | √ | √ | ||
Pomona College (94) | √ | √ | ||
Johns Hopkins University (93) | √ | √ | √ | |
Claremont McKenna (93) | √ | |||
Carleton College (91) | √ | |||
Washington & Lee Univ. (91) | √ | √ | ||
Cal. Inst. of Technolgy (89) | √ | √ | ||
Grinnell College (89) | √ | √ | ||
Haverford College (88) | √ | √ | ||
Davidson College (88) | √ | √ | √ | |
Harvey Mudd College (84) | √ | √ | ||
Colorado College (84) | √ | √ | ||
Kenyon College (81) | √ | √ | ||
Oberlin College (78) | √ | √ | ||
Occidental College (76) | √ | √ | ||
Denison University (74) | √ | √ | ||
Sewanee-U. of the South (73) | √ | √ | ||
Dickinson College (73) | √ | √ | ||
DePauw University (73) | √ | √ | ||
Gettysburg College (70) | √ | √ |
*The scores (in parenthesis) are from USN&WR, Best Colleges, 2021 Edition, on a scale of 100 as the highest, and are based on: Outcomes (40%); Faculty Resources (20%); Expert Opinion (20%); Financial Resources (10%); Student Excellence (7%); and Alumni Giving (3%). About 196 colleges have scores of 60 or above. Only Princeton and Williams have scores of 100.