Selected Highly Resourced Colleges
There are over 3,000 universities and liberal arts colleges in the U.S. Listed below
are 96 that are highly rated* and have an endowment sufficient to provide meaningful
need-based grants.
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name in the search box.
| Universities |
| Princeton University (100) |
| Columbia University (97) |
| Harvard University (97) |
| MIT (97) |
| Yale University (96) |
| Stanford University (95) |
| University of Chicago (95) |
| University of Pennsylvania (94) |
| Cal Tech (93) |
| Duke University (93) |
| Johns Hopkins University (93) |
| Northwestern University (93) |
| Dartmouth College (91) |
| Brown University (88) |
| Vanderbilt University (88) |
| Washington Univ. in St. Louis (88) |
| Cornell University (87) |
| Rice University (87) |
| Notre Dame (85) |
| UCLA (84) |
| Emory University (83) |
| Univ. of Cal. Berkeley (82) |
| Georgetown University (81) |
| Univ. of Michigan (81) |
| Carnegie Mellon University (80) |
| Univ. of Virginia (80) |
| Univ. of Southern California (79) |
| Tufts University (78) |
| Univ. of Cal.Santa Barbara (78) |
| Univ. of North Carolina (78) |
| Wake Forest University (78) |
| Univ. of Rochester (77) |
| Boston College (76) |
| College of William and Mary (74) |
| Georgia Tech (74) |
| Univ. of Texas (74) |
| Boston University (73) |
| Brandeis University (73) |
| Case Western Reserve (73) |
| Tulane University (73) |
| Lehigh University (70) |
| Pepperdine University (70) |
| Santa Clara Univ. (70) |
| Villanova University (70) |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (69) |
| George Washington Univ. (67) |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute (67) |
| American Univesity (64) |
| Clark University (60) |
| St. Louis Univ. (60) |
| Liberal Arts Colleges |
| Williams College (100) |
| Amherst College (98) |
| Swarthmore College (94) |
| Wellesley College (94) |
| Pomona College (93) |
| Bowdoin College (91) |
| Liberal Arts Colleges (Cont.) |
| Claremont McKenna College (90) |
| Carleton College (89) |
| Middlebury College (89) |
| U.S. Naval Academy (88) |
| U.S. Military Academy (88) |
| Washington & Lee University (88) |
| Davidson College (87) |
| Hamilton College (87) |
| Grinnell College (87) |
| Haverford College (86) |
| Barnard College (84) |
| Colby College (84) |
| Colgate University (84) |
| Smith College (84) |
| Wesleyan University (84) |
| University of Richmond (83) |
| Vassar College (83) |
| U.S. Air Force Academy (83) |
| Colorado College (81) |
| Macalester College (80) |
| Harvey Mudd College (79) |
| Bryn Mawr College (77) |
| Kenyon College (77) |
| Mount Holyoke College (77) |
| Scripps College (77) |
| College of the Holy Cross (76) |
| Pitzer College (76) |
| Oberlin College (75) |
| Bucknell University (74) |
| Lafayette College (74) |
| Skidmore College (74) |
| Whitman College (74) |
| Denison University (72) |
| Franklin & Marshall College (72) |
| Occidental College (72) |
| DePauw University (71) |
| Trinity College (71) |
| Furman University (71) |
| Connecticut College (70) |
| Dickinson College (70) |
| Sewanee-Univ. of the South (70) |
| Union College (70) |
| Gettysburg College (68) |
| Rhodes College (68) |
| St. Lawrence University (67) |
| Bard College (65) |
| Lawrence University (65) |
| Reed College (65) |
| St. Olaf College (65) |
| Agnes Scott College (64) |
| St. John's College (63) |
| Muhlenberg College (63) |
| Wofford College (63) |
| College of Wooster (62) |
| Willamette University (62) |
| Hobart & Wm. Smith College (61) |
| Knox College (60) |
| Babson College (**) |
| Olin College of Engineering (**) |
Total: 115
*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. With limited exceptions, all colleges on this list have at least $100,000 of endowment per student.
**Not ranked by USN&WR