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 | √ | √ | √ | |
| Financial Aid | ||||
| 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.