(MONEY Magazine) – The tables on the following pages deliver basic information you need to size up 1,000 public and private four-year colleges and universities that welcome students without regard to their religious backgrounds. Schools that placed in MONEY's top 100 are highlighted in blue with their ranks after their names. In ranking the top 100, we excluded schools where more than 45% of the students attend classes part time, specialized colleges that offer majors in only a few fields, the service academies, and schools that require students to work while attending classes. The schools omitted from the rankings are indicated by footnotes on the pages that follow; all notes appear on page 103. The data were gathered by MONEY and Orchard House of Concord, Mass., a publisher of college directories, in surveys sent to colleges in the spring of 1992 and in follow-up phone calls. Here is a description of the statistics that will help you understand the tables: -- Tuition and fees. These prices apply to this fall's freshmen, unless otherwise noted. For public schools, we list the tuition for out-of-state residents. We also include the fees that are mandatory for all students; they typically cover the cost of student activities and health care. -- Room and board. Schools generally offer a variety of room and meal plans. We give the least expensive option among the most popular choices -- usually a two-person dorm room and 14 meals a week. -- Percent of students receiving aid. We count all undergraduates who received financial assistance from any source in 1991-92 -- federal and state governments, the college itself and private organizations. The figures include merit and athletic scholarships and other money that is distributed without regard for financial aid.

-- Average gift aid per student. This number represents the total amount of outright grants (not loans or work/study) that the college dispensed last year out of its own funds, divided by the number of undergraduates on campus. -- Student/faculty ratio. We list the figure that the schools reported for undergraduates and faculty members teaching them. (For our value rankings, we used two different student/faculty ratios that we calculated from our own data.) A student/faculty ratio is not a direct measure of class sizes, although schools with low ratios tend to have smaller classes. -- Percent who graduate in five years. We give the average percentage of students who earn a bachelor's degree within five years of entering college; we do not include transfer students in this statistic. -- Percent with high test scores. This number represents the portion of 1991 freshmen who scored above 500 on the verbal portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (indicated by the letter S), or 24 or above on the composite ACT (indicated by an A). The average verbal SAT score nationwide in 1990 was ) 424; the average composite ACT was 20.6. -- Percent from top fifth of class. We list the portion of freshmen entering in 1991 who graduated in the top 20% of their high school classes. Finally, we provide phone numbers for all schools -- usually of the admissions offices -- so that you can ask your own questions and request literature and applications from the colleges and universities that interest you.

BOX: stay-at-home standouts

THE 20 TOP VALUES IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS WHEN WE USE IN-STATE TUITION AND FEES, NOT OUT-OF-STATE CHARGES, IN THE ANALYSIS

1. U. of N.C.-Chapel Hill $1,296 2. New College (Fla.) 1,855 3. University of Texas-Austin 1,200 4. North Carolina State 1,344 5. University of Florida 1,580 6. U. of California-Berkeley 2,919 7. Texas A&M 1,488 8. Georgia Inst. of Tech. 2,196 9. University of Washington 2,274 10. Florida State University 1,500 11. Auburn University 1,755 12. New Mexico Tech 1,666 13. UCLA 2,886 14. University of Arizona 1,590 15. U. of Wisconsin-Madison 2,344 16. University of Iowa 2,228 17. University of Kansas 1,796 18. Purdue University 2,520 19. University of Virginia 3,890 20. U. of N.C.-Charlotte 1,189

tops for techies

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOLS THAT SCORED HIGHEST IN MONEY'S VALUE RANKINGS

California Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of Technology New Mexico Institute of Mining Harvey Mudd College Michigan Technological University North Carolina State University MIT Virginia Polytechnic Institute University of Missouri-Rolla N.J. Institute of Technology

liberal arts havens

LIBERAL ARTS SCHOOLS WITH 1,600 STUDENTS OR LESS THAT SCORED HIGHEST IN OUR VALUE RANKINGS

New College -- U. of South Florida Hanover College Fisk University Centenary College of Louisiana Wabash College Illinois College | Emory and Henry College University of the South Westminster College (Pa.) Swarthmore College

top black colleges

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

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

top values for women

WOMEN'S COLLEGES WITH THE HIGHEST SCORES IN OUR VALUE RANKINGS

Douglass College Spelman College Notre Dame of Maryland Agnes Scott College Chestnut Hill College Wesleyan College (Ga.) Elms College Salem College Wells College Wellesley College

major money

SCHOOLS WITH THE HIGHEST CHARGES FOR TUITION, FEES, ROOM AND BOARD

Sarah Lawrence College $24,380 Bard College 24,095 Brandeis University 23,950 Bennington College 23,880 Barnard College 23,864 Yale University 23,700 Tufts University 23,594 MIT 23,565 Hampshire College 23,540 Harvard University 23,514

rocketing rates

COLLEGES THAT IMPOSED THE BIGGEST PERCENTAGE INCREASES IN TUITION AND FEES THIS YEAR

Alcorn State University 71% Western Montana College 44 Northern Montana College 43 Montana State University 39 Montana University 39 Alabama State University 34 Christopher Newport College 33 Salem-Teikyo University 1 130 Millersville University (Pa.) 28 West Texas State 28

1 Private school; for publics, we used nonresident charges

helping hands

SCHOOLS GIVING THE MOST IN NEED-BASED AID FROM THEIR OWN MONEY, PER RECIPIENT

Mount Holyoke $10,595 Bennington College 9,710 Reed College 9,677 Hampshire College 9,615 Mills College 9,511 Smith College 9,447 Amherst College 9,384 Williams College 9,276 + Tulane University 9,223 Scripps College 9,115 St. Lawrence University 9,005 Bates College 8,807 Brandeis University 8,654 Sarah Lawrence College 8,599 Connecticut College 8,495 Oberlin College 8,473 Haverford College 8,358 Trinity College (Conn.) 8,332 Brown University 8,113 Pine Manor College 8,057

m.d. meccas

COLLEGES WITH THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF GRADUATES ENTERING MEDICAL SCHOOL

Davidson College 28% Johns Hopkins University 25 Washington and Jefferson 21 Emory University 17 New York University 14 University of the South 13 Duke University 12 Illinois Benedictine 12 University of Chicago 11

holding court

COLLEGES WITH THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF GRADUATES ENTERING LAW SCHOOL

Washington and Jefferson 18% Brandeis University 17 Emory University 17 University of Chicago 16 Trinity College (D.C.) 15 University of the South 15 Davidson College 14 New York University 13 Transylvania University 12 Wabash College 12

business bound

COLLEGES SENDING THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF GRADUATES TO GRADUATE BUSINESS SCHOOLS

Ohio Wesleyan University 33% Babson College 30 Hawaii Pacific University 27 Rutgers University 25 St. John's College (N.M.) 20 Incarnate Word College 20 St. Thomas Aquinas College 19 St. Joseph's College (Maine) 18 Wabash College 15 Furman College 15

melting pots

SCHOOLS FROM MONEY'S TOP 100 WITH THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF MINORITY ENROLLMENTS 1

St. Mary's University 67% UC-Berkeley 61 UCLA 56 SUNY-Stony Brook 49 California Inst. of Technology 40 Stanford University 40 MIT 37 Pomona College 35 Columbia University 34 Rutgers College 34

1 Excluding historically black colleges

mostly men

COED LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES WITH THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF MEN

Webster College 84% Carnegie Mellon 70 Unity College 70 Cooper Union 69 Tri-State University 69 Drexel University 68 Pennsylvania State U. at Erie 65 U. of Wisconsin-Platteville 65 University of Notre Dame 64 Westminster College (Mo.) 64

mostly women

COED LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES WITH THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF WOMEN

Spalding University 89% Marygrove College 85 Marywood College 81 College of Mount St. Vincent 80 Marymount University 78 Rosary College 78 Dominican College of San Rafael 77 D'Youville College 77 Molloy College 75 Queens College (N.C.) 73

money for merit

SCHOOLS THAT GIVE OUT THE MOST IN NON-NEED-BASED SCHOLARSHIPS PER STUDENT

Viterbo College $4,204 Wabash College 2,982 Transylvania University 2,559 Alma College 2,519 Polytechnic University 2,345 Rhodes College 2,258 Carthage College 2,187 Centenary of Louisiana 2,107 Regis College 2,062 Milwaukee School of Eng. 1,896

strangers welcome

PUBLIC SCHOOLS WITH THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS FROM OUT OF STATE

University of Delaware 61% Lincoln University (Pa.) 53 University of Vermont 50 West Virginia University 50 New College of U. of S. Florida 48 Northwest Missouri State 45 University of Rhode Island 45 Eastern Oregon State College 42 Moorhead State University 42 ^ University of New Hampshire 40

posh pay

SCOOLS THAT PAY THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARIES TO FULL PROFESSORS

Harvard University $92,200 Calif. Inst. of Technology 90,900 Princeton University 88,200 Stanford University 86,500 Yale University 86,100 MIT 83,900 University of Chicago 83,300 Camden College 82,000 Columbia University 82,000 New York University 81,200

bottom dollar

SCHOOLS THAT PAY THE LOWEST AVERAGE SALARIES TO FULL PROFESSORS

Tougaloo College $23,700 Bethel College (Tenn.) 27,500 MacMurray College 27,900 Union College (Ky.) 28,500 Concordia College (Mich.) 28,800 Tabor College 29,000 Ottawa University 29,200 Lambuth College 29,800 Dana College 30,000 Union College (Neb.) 30,700

cozy classes

COLLEGES WITH THE SMALLEST AVERAGE CLASS SIZE FOR FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORES

Bennington College 7 Wilson College 10 Prescott College 11 Sweet Briar College 11 Centenary College of La. 12 Rosemont College 12 Wells College 12

book barns

SCHOOLS WITH THE MOST TITLES IN THEIR LIBRARIES, INCLUDING MICROFILM (IN MILLIONS)

Columbia University 15.1 Harvard University 14.1 Yale University 13.2 UC-Berkeley 12 UCLA 12 U. of Michigan-Ann Arbor 11 Cornell University 10.9 U. of Ill.-Urbana-Champaign 10.9 University of Washington 10.1 University of Texas-Austin 10

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