Selected Highly Resourced Colleges
There are over 3,000 universities and liberal arts colleges in the U.S. Listed below
are 98 that are highly rated* and have an endowment sufficient to provide meaningful
need-based grants.
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| Universities |
| Princeton University (100) |
| Harvard University (98) |
| Columbia University (97) |
| MIT (96) |
| Yale University (96) |
| University of Chicago (95) |
| Stanford University (95) |
| University of Pennsylvania (94) |
| Northwestern University (93) |
| Johns Hopkins University (93) |
| Cal Tech (93) |
| Duke University (92) |
| Dartmouth College (91) |
| Washington & Lee University (91) |
| Brown University (88) |
| Vanderbilt University (88) |
| Rice University (87) |
| Washington Univ. in St. Louis (87) |
| University of Richmond (86) |
| Cornell University (86) |
| Notre Dame (85) |
| UCLA (84) |
| Emory University (83) |
| Univ. of Cal. Berkeley (82) |
| Georgetown University (81) |
| Univ. of Southern California (80) |
| Univ. of Michigan (80) |
| Univ. of Virginia (79) |
| Carnegie Mellon University (79) |
| Wake Forest University (78) |
| Univ. of North Carolina (78) |
| Tufts University (77) |
| Univ. of Cal.Santa Barbara (77) |
| Univ. of Rochester (76) |
| Georgia Tech (75) |
| Boston College (75) |
| College of William and Mary (74) |
| Tulane University (73) |
| Brandeis University (72) |
| Case Western Reserve (72) |
| Pepperdine University (70) |
| Lehigh University (70) |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (69) |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute (66) |
| Clark University (60) |
| Liberal Arts Colleges |
| Williams College (100) |
| Amherst College (98) |
| Swarthmore College (95) |
| Wellesley College (94) |
| Pomona College (94) |
| Bowdoin College (93) |
| Claremont McKenna College (93) |
| U.S. Naval Academy (93) |
| Carleton College (91) |
| Middlebury College (91) |
| Hamilton College (91) |
| Grinnell College (89) |
| Vassar College (89) |
| Haverford College (88) |
| Smith College (88) |
| Colby College (88) |
| Davidson College (88) |
| U.S. Military Academy (88) |
| Colgate University (87) |
| Wesleyan University (87) |
| Bates College (86) |
| Barnard College (86) |
| Harvey Mudd College (84) |
| Colorado College (84) |
| Macalester College (82) |
| Bryn Mawr College (81) |
| Kenyon College (81) |
| Scripps College (81) |
| U.S. Air Force Academy (81) |
| Mount Holyoke College (79) |
| Bucknell University (79) |
| Oberlin College (78) |
| College of the Holy Cross (78) |
| Skidmore College (78) |
| Lafayette College (76) |
| Occidental College (76) |
| Franklin & Marshall College (75) |
| Denison University (74) |
| Union College (74) |
| Trinity College (74) |
| Sewanee-Univ. of the South (73) |
| Dickinson College (73) |
| DePauw University (73) |
| Connecticut College (72) |
| Gettysburg College (70) |
| St. Lawrence University (70) |
| Bard College (70) |
| Hobart & Wm. Smith College (64) |
| Muhlenberg College (64) |
| Allegheny College (62) |
| Wheaton (61) |
| Babson College (**) |
| Olin College of Engineering (**) |
Total: 98
*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 200 colleges have scores of 60 or above. Only Princeton and Williams have scores of 100. With limited exceptions, all colleges on this list have at least $100,000 of endowment per student.
** Not ranked by USN&WR