(MONEY Magazine) – BOX: Grants Galore

SCHOOLS THAT PROVIDE THE BIGGEST AVERAGE GRANTS OUT OF THEIR OWN FUNDS TO STUDENTS WITH NEED

Stanford $11,711 Tulane 11,095 Swarthmore College 10,701 Bowdoin College 10,663 Mount Holyoke College 10,298 Scripps College 10,152 Amherst College 10,143 Bennington College 9,646 California Inst. of Technology 9,374 Smith College 9,353

BOX: Tuition Traps

PRIVATE SCHOOLS WITH THE BIGGEST PERCENTAGE INCREASES IN CHARGES FOR TUITION, ROOM AND BOARD IN THE PAST YEAR

GMI Eng. & Mgt. Inst. 24% University of Bridgeport 23 Wake Forest University 21 St. John Fisher College 20 Claflin College 19 Manhattan College 19 Marywood College 19 Sioux Falls College 19 Georgetown University 18 Robert Morris College 18

BOX: Costly Credits

SCHOOLS THAT CHARGE THE HIGHEST FEES FOR TUITION, ROOM AND BOARD

Bennington College $23,200 Sarah Lawrence College 23,150 Barnard College 22,766 Brandeis University 22,734 Bard College 22,675 Cornell 22,558 Boston U. 22,510 Tulane 22,485 Tufts 22,479 New York U. 22,394

BOX: Bucks for Brains

SCHOOLS THAT OFFER THE BIGGEST AVERAGE MERIT-BASED SCHOLARSHIPS

Trinity (Conn.) $15,120 Bard 15,000 Holy Cross 14,200 Tulane 14,200 U. of the Pacific 12,000 Catholic U. 10,860 Colorado College 10,100 Duke 10,100 Providence 10,000 Boston University 9,983

BOX: Doors to Diversity

SCHOOLS FROM MONEY'S TOP 100 WITH THE LARGEST PERCENTAGE MINORITY ENROLLMENTS, EXCLUDING HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES

UC Berkeley 52 UCLA 52 Incarnate Word College 51 Stanford University 37 MIT 36 Columbia University 29 Kentucky Wesleyan University 29 % Pomona College 29 Rutgers College 29 Claremont McKenna College 28

BOX: Comfort Zones

TOP-RANKED MID-SIZE SCHOOLS (1,200 TO 4,000 UNDERGRADUATES)

Rice 2,694 undergraduates Spelman 1,708 Trinity (Texas) 2,332 Mary Washington 3,395 Johns Hopkins 3,042 Wake Forest 3,533 Samford 3,161 Bellarmine 2,054 Florida Southern 1,717 Washington and Lee 1,647

BOX: In Search of...Men

COED LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES WITH THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF WOMEN

Villa Julie College 85% Molloy College 83 College of Mount St. Vincent 81 Marywood College 79 Marymount University (Va.) 78 Notre Dame College (N.H.) 78 Dominican College of San Rafael 77 Goucher College 77 Wheaton College 77 Queens College (N.C.) 75

BOX: In Search of...Women

COED LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES WITH THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF MEN

Unity College 78% Tri-State University 71 Cooper Union 69 Drexel University 69 Carnegie Mellon University 68 U. of New Haven 67 U. of Wisconsin -- Plateville 66 Westminster College 66 Lees-McRae College 65 Washington and Lee University 65

BOX: Top 10 Black Colleges

HISTORICALLY BLACK SCHOOLS THAT SCORED HIGHEST ON MONEY'S VALUE RANKINGS

Spelman College Fisk University Howard University Barber-Scotia College LeMoyne-Owen College Benedict College Tuskegee University Morehouse College Clark Atlanta University Hampton University

BOX: Professional Places

COLLEGES SENDING THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF GRADUATES TO MEDICAL SCHOOL

Johns Hopkins University 28% Xavier University of Louisiana 16 City College-City U. of New York 15 + Albany State College (Ga.) 15 New York University 14 Washington and Jefferson College 14 Emory University 13 Willamette University 13 Illinois Benedictine College 12 Brown University 12

BOX: Professional Places

COLLEGES SENDING THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF GRADUATES TO LAW SCHOOL

Columbia University 24% Duke University 23 Fisk University 20 Fordham University 20 University of Michigan 19 UCLA 18 Widener University 18 Brandeis University 17 Willamette University 17 Frostburg State University 15

BOX: Stellar Schools for Women

THE 10 HIGHEST-SCORING WOMEN'S COLLEGES IN MONEY'S VALUE RANKINGS

Spelman College Douglass College Notre Dame College (Md.) Chestnut Hill College Wesleyan College (Ga.) Agnes Scott College Barnard College Elms College Wells College Scripps College

BOX: Where Pay for Profs is Tops...

SCHOOLS PAYING THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARIES TO FULL PROFESSORS

Harvard University $89,600 California Inst. of Technology 86,000 Stanford University 83,300 Yale University 82,300 MIT 79,800 University of Chicago 78,500 University of Pennsylvania 77,400 UC Berkeley 76,500 New York University 76,200 Carnegie Mellon University 76,100

BOX: ...And Not So Hot

SCHOOLS PAYING THE LOWEST AVERAGE SALARIES TO FULL PROFESSORS

Mount Marty College $29,200 St. Paul's College 29,200 Dana College 28,800 St. Mary of the Plains College 28,600 McPherson College 28,400 Bennett College 27,800 Tabor College 27,800 Union College (Neb.) 26,600 Tougaloo College 26,200 Claflin College 23,900

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