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) √ √
Columbia University (97) √ √
Harvard University (97) √ √
Yale University (96) √ √  
Univ. of Pennsylvania (94) √ √
Dartmouth College (91) √ √
Brown University (88) √ √  
Cornell University (87) √ √
       
Patriot League
U.S. Naval Academy (91) √ √
U.S. Military Academy (88) √ √
Colgate University (84) √ √
Coll. of the Holy Cross (76) √ √ √
Bucknell University (74) √ √ √
Lafayette College (74) √ √ √
Lehigh University (70)  √ √ √
American Univ. (64) x
 
Atlantic Coast Conference
Duke University (93) √ √ √ √
Notre Dame (85) √ √ √ √
Univ. of Virginia (80) √ √ √
Univ. of North Carolina (78) √ √ √
Wake Forest University (78) √ √ √
Boston College (76) √   √ √
Georgia Tech (74) √ √ √
Univ. of Miami (69) √ √ √
Syracuse (68) √ √ √
 
PAC 12
Stanford University (95)  √ √ √ √
UCLA (84) √   √ √
Univ. of Cal. Berkeley (82) √ √ √
Univ. of Southern Cal. 79) √ √ √
Univ. of Washington (68) √ √ √
Univ. of Colorado (61) √ √ √
Univ. of Oregon (61) √ √ √
Univ. of Utah (61) √ √ √
Univ. of Arizona (60) √ √ √
 
Big 10
Northwestern University (93) √ √ √ √
Univ. of Michigan (81) √   √ √
Univ. of Wisconsin (73) √   √ √
Univ. of. Illinois (72) √   √ √
Ohio State (70) √   √ √
Purdue (70) √ √ √
Penn State (67) √   √ √
Rutgers (67) √ √ √
 
America East Conference
Univ. of Vermont (58) √ √ √
UNH (56) √ √ √
UMass Lowell (52) √ √ √
 
Other Division I
Vanderbilt University (88) √ √ √ √
Rice University (87)  √ √ √ √
University of Richmond (83) √ √ √ √
Georgetown University (81) √ √ √
Univ. of Florida (78) √ √ √
William and Mary (74) √ √ √
Boston University (73) √ √ √
Tulane (73) √ √ √
Northeastern University (70) √ √ √
Pepperdine University (70) √ √ √
Villanova (70) √ √ √
       
Division II
       
Northeast - 10 Conference
St. Anselm College (54) √ √ √
Stonehill College (53) √ √ √
St. Michaels College (49) √ √ √
  Financial Aid
Need Need  Academic Athletic
Based Blind Merit Merit
       
Division III 
       
NESCAC
Williams College (100) √ √
Amherst College (98) √ √
Bowdoin College (91) √ √
Middlebury College (89) √ √
Hamilton College (87)  √ √
Colby College (84) √
Wesleyan University (84) √
Bates College (82) √
Tufts University (78) √
Trinity College (71) √
Connecticut College (70) √
       
Liberty League
Vassar College (83)  √ √
Univ. of Rochester (76) √ √
Skidmore College (74) √ √
Union College (70) √ √
RPI (69) √ √
St. Lawrence University (67)
Bard College (65) √ √
Hobart & Wm. Smith (61) √ √
Clarkson (57) √ √
       
NEWMAC
MIT (97) √
Wellesley College (92) √ √
Smith College (88) √ √
Mount Holyoke College (84) √
WPI (67) √ √
Clark (60) √ √
Wheaton College (MA) (58) √ √
Babson College √ √
Emerson √ √
Springfield College √ √
U.S. Coast Guard Academy √ √
       
University Athletic Association
University of Chicago (95) √ √
Wash. U. in St. Louis (88) √ √
Emory University (83) √ √
Carnegie Mellon Univ. (80) √ √
New York University (78) √ √
Univ. of Rochester (76) √ √
Brandeis University (73) √ √
Case Western Reserve (73) √ √
       
Other Division III
Swarthmore College (94) √ √
Johns Hopkins Univ. (93) √ √
Pomona College (93) √ √ √
Claremont McKenna C. (90)  √
Carleton College (89) √
Washington & Lee Univ. (88) √ √
Cal. Inst. of Technolgy (93) √ √
Grinnell College (87)  √ √
Davidson College (87) √ √ √
Haverford College (86) √ √
Colorado College (81) √ √
Harvey Mudd College (79) √ √
Kenyon College 77) √ √
Oberlin College (75) √ √
Occidental College (72) √ √
Denison University (72) √ √
DePauw University (71) √ √
Dickinson College (70) √ √
Sewanee-U. of the South (70) √ √
Gettysburg College (68) √ √

*The scores (in parenthesis) are from USN&WR, Best Colleges, 2022 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 180 colleges have scores of 60 or above. Only Princeton and Williams have scores of 100.