(MONEY Magazine) – Aid for the Affluent SCHOOLS THAT HAND OUT THE BIGGEST AVERAGE MERIT-BASED SCHOLARSHIPS

Catholic University $16,428 Bard 14,500 Holy Cross 13,600 Trinity College (Conn.) 13,600 Tulane 12,450 U. of the Pacific (Calif.) 12,000 Providence (R.I.) 10,000 Pine Manor (Mass.) 9,500 Emory 9,200 Colorado College 9,100

Watch Your Wallet THE MOST EXPENSIVE COLLEGES, BASED ON THEIR TOTAL TUITION, FEES, ROOM AND BOARD

Bennington $21,550 Sarah Lawrence 21,490 Barnard 21,344 Boston University 21,105 Tufts 20,987 Bard 20,870 Brown 20,851

Giants of Generosity SCHOOLS THAT GIVE THE BIGGEST AVERAGE GRANTS TO STUDENTS WHO QUALIFY FOR FINANCIAL AID

, Tulane $10,281 Middlebury (Vt.) 10,169 Bennington 9,852 Swarthmore 9,589 Smith 9,331 Bowdoin 9,224 Brown 9,127 Mount Holyoke 9,086 Drew (N.J.) 8,906 Scripps (Calif.) 8,817

Top Women's Schools WOMEN'S SCHOOLS THAT SCORED HIGHEST ON MONEY'S VALUE RANKINGS

Douglass College-Rutgers U. Spelman (Ga.) Meredith (N.C.) Rosemont (Pa.) Elms (Mass.)

Best Black Colleges PREDOMINANTLY BLACK SCHOOLS THAT SCORED HIGHEST ON MONEY'S VALUE RANKINGS

Barber-Scotia (N.C.) Fisk (Tenn.) Spelman (Ga.)

Doctor Dens COLLEGES SENDING THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF GRADUATES TO MEDICAL SCHOOL

Johns Hopkins 30% Xavier University of Louisiana 16 Albany State (Ga.) 15 Rice 15 Duke 14 Washington & Jefferson (Pa.) 14 Emory 13 Austin (Texas) 12 Brown 12 Occidental (Calif.) 12

Lawyer Labs COLLEGES SENDING THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF GRADUATES TO LAW SCHOOL

Columbia University 24% Fisk (Tenn.) 20 Occidental (Calif.) 19 University of Michigan 19 Rice 18 UCLA 18 Brandeis 16 Fordham (N.Y.) 15 Frostburg State ((Md.) 15

Havens for Hackers SCHOOLS WITH THE MOST PERSONAL COMPUTERS FOR EACH 100 STUDENTS

U.S. Naval Academy 134.8 U.S. Military Academy 134.6 Drew (N.J.) 87.4 Union (Neb.) 83.1 U.S. Air Force Academy 56.3 Nichols (Mass.) 43.2 University of Michigan 41.3 Northwest Missouri State 39.4 Stevens Inst. of Technology 38.9 Wesleyan College (Ga.) 36.4

Where the Girls Are COED LIBERAL ARTS SCHOOLS WITH THE HIGHEST PROPORTION OF WOMEN

Goucher 83% Molloy 83 Notre Dame College (N.H.) 82 Wheaton 82 Marymount (Va.) 81 Hahnemann 80 Marywood 80 Queens College (N.C.) 80

Where the Boys Are COED LIBERAL ARTS SCHOOLS WITH THE HIGHEST PROPORTION OF MEN

University of Missouri-Rolla 77% Tri-State (Ind.) 72 Cooper Union 70 Drexel 69 Carnegie-Mellon 68 Washington and Lee 67 Westminster (Mo.) 66 U. of Wisconsin-Platteville 66

Many Happy Returns SCHOOLS WITH THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF FRESHMEN GRADUATING WITHIN FIVE YEARS

Harvard 95% Dartmouth 94 Columbia University 93 Duke 93 Notre Dame 93 Amherst 92 Brown 92 Wesleyan University 92 Princeton 91 Middlebury (Vt.) 91

The Titanic Ten FOUR-YEAR LIBERAL ARTS SCHOOLS WITH THE MOST STUDENTS

Ohio State 52,895 University of Texas-Austin 50,245 Rutgers 47,846 Arizona State 43,546 Michigan State 42,866 U. of Wisconsin-Madison 41,100 U. of Minn.-Twin Cities 41,016 Texas A&M 40,492 Penn State-University Park 37,718 UCLA 36,378

The Intimate Eight FOUR-YEAR LIBERAL ARTS SCHOOLS WITH FEWER THAN 300 STUDENTS

World College West (Calif.) 122 Thomas Aquinas (Calif.) 176 C. of the Atlantic (Maine) 202 Prescott (Ariz.) 215 East-West. (Ill.) 226 Wisconsin Lutheran 273 Marlboro (Vt.) 282 Sheldon Jackson (Alaska) 290

Notes: Schools are drawn from our tables of 1,000 four-year colleges; lists based on MONEY's value rankings include only the top 100 public and top 100 private schools. Data supplied by Peterson's Guides Inc. of Princeton, N.J. or the schools.