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