(MONEY Magazine) – You've come to the right place to size up schools. On the following 20 pages, we provide basic statistics for 1,003 public and private four-year colleges and universities that welcome students without regard to religious backgrounds. Not all of these institutions were included in the analysis that determined our 100 best buys (see page 20). Among those excluded were the service academies, highly specialized colleges and schools that require students to work while attending classes. We also did not include colleges where more than 45% of the students attend classes part time. While schools that placed on our top 100 honor roll are highlighted by their ranks to the left of their names, the institutions excluded from our value analysis are indicated by footnotes. MONEY and Orchard House of Concord, Mass., a publisher of college directories, gathered the statistics with surveys in the spring of 1993 and follow-up phone calls. All footnotes appear on page 103. Here are explanations of the statistics: Tuition and fees. We quote the charges for '93 freshmen, including mandatory fees. For public schools, we list the price for nonresident freshmen. In cases where final figures were not available, we used estimates (indicated by footnotes). Room and board. We list the most popular option, typically a two-person dorm room and 14 meals a week. Percent of students receiving financial aid. This is the portion of undergraduates receiving any financial aid, including loans, work/study, and merit and athletic scholarships. Percent of need met. This statistic applies to students who qualified for financial aid. It's the average percentage of their officially calculated need that was filled. Average gift aid per student. This figure represents the total of all scholarships and grants (including those made to athletes) that came from the college's own funds during the 1992 academic year, divided by the number of full-time students. Student/faculty ratio. We list the ratio of students to teaching faculty reported by the schools themselves. Colleges with low ratios tend to have smaller classes. (For our value rankings, we used three different student/ faculty ratios that we calculated from our own data.) Percent who graduate in six years. This is the portion of the class of '86 who earned degrees by the summer of '92. Student academic level. Each year Orchard House asks colleges to characterize the academic-achievement level of entering freshmen. Colleges put their typical student in one of these numerical categories: 1. Top 20% of high school class, with GPA of B+ or better, SAT scores above 1,200 or ACT scores above 28. 2. Top 40% of class, GPA of B or better, SAT scores between 1,100 and 1,199, ACT scores of 27 to 28. 3. Top half of class, GPA of B- or better, SAT scores between 950 and 1,099, ACT scores of 23 to 26. 4. Top 60% of class, GPA of C or better, SAT scores between 800 and 949, ACT scores of 19 to 22. 5. Grades/scores lower than the above. Finally, we list phone numbers, usually of the admissions offices.

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Luxury degrees Schools with the highest charges for tuition, fees, room and board

Brandeis University (Mass.) $26,130 Barnard College (N.Y.) 25,492 MIT (Mass.) 25,400 Hampshire College (Mass.) 25,210 Yale University (Conn.) 25,110 Bard College (N.Y.) 25,044 Tufts University (Mass.) 24,962 Sarah Lawrence College (N.Y.) 24,960 Harvard University (Mass.) 24,880 Bennington College (Vt.) 24,850

Steep climbs These schools approved the biggest increase in tuition and fees for 1993-94. (We used out-of-state tuition for public schools.)

Sheldon Jackson College (Alaska) 32.9% Texas Southern University 27.7 Idaho State University 27.1 Olivet College (Mich.) 26.6 Kutztown University (Pa.) 25.4 Lander College (S.C.) 22.6 Bloomsburg U. of Pennsylvania 21.4 Indiana U. of Pennsylvania 21.2 California U. of Pennsylvania 20.4 West Chester University (Pa.) 20.4

Not just for natives Public schools from our top 100 that report the highest percentage of out-of- state students

New Mexico Tech 41% New College (Fla.) 40 Northwest Missouri State 40 Auburn University (Ala.) 37 Georgia Institute of Technology 36 University of Virginia 33 University of Wisconsin-Madison 30 College of William and Mary (Va.) 30 Mary Washington College (Va.) 30 Indiana University-Bloomington 30

Deep pockets Schools that gave the most in need-based aid from their own funds, per student who qualified for such aid

Swarthmore (Pa.) 11,304 Amherst College (Mass.) 11,256 Vassar College (N.Y.) 11,225 Bennington College (Vt.) 11,050 Bowdoin College (Maine) 10,486 Stanford U. (Calif.) 10,448 Pitzer College (Calif.) 10,303 St. Lawrence U. (N.Y.) 10,041 Brandeis U. (Mass.) 9,834 Trinity College (Conn.) 9,775 Mount Holyoke (Mass.) 9,564 Pine Manor (Mass.) 9,455 Bryn Mawr College (Pa.) 9,434 Georgetown U. (D.C.) 9,329 Barnard College (N.Y.) 9,256 Caltech (Calif.) 9,247 MIT (Mass.) 9,226 Pepperdine U. (Calif.) 9,140 Harvard U. (Mass.) 9,088 Scripps College (Calif.) 9,028

Big on books Schools with the most titles in their libraries, including periodicals and microfilm, in millions

Harvard University (Mass.) 16.1 Yale University (Conn.) 14.3 U. of California-Los Angeles 12.9 U. of California-Berkeley 12.2 U. of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign 12.0 Cornell University (N.Y.) 11.4 U. of Michigan 11.1 Columbia U. and Barnard (N.Y.) 10.2 U. of Washington 10.2 U. of Texas-Austin 10.1

High on healing Schools reporting the highest percentage of graduates entering medical school

Johns Hopkins University (Md.) 27% Emory University (Ga.) 17 Heidelberg College (Ohio) 16 Xavier U. of Louisiana 15 Harvard University (Mass.) 14 New York University 14 Furman University (S.C.) 13 University of the South (Tenn.) 13 Bennett College (N.C.) 12 Columbia University (N.Y.) 12

Legions of lawyers Schools with the highest percentage of graduates entering law school

Columbia University (N.Y.) 25% Claremont McKenna (Calif.) 21 University of Chicago (Ill.) 18 Emory University (Ga.) 16 Brandeis University (Mass.) 15 Tulane University (La.) 15 University of the South (Tenn.) 15 Harvard University (Mass.) 14 Sarah Lawrence College (N.Y.) 14 Furman University (S.C.) 13 New York University 13

Glorious mosaics Schools from Money's top 100 with the highest percentage of minority students*

St. Mary's University (Texas) 70% University of California-Los Angeles 54 University of California-Berkeley 52 Stanford University (Calif.) 42 ^ New Jersey Institute of Technology 41 University of California-Davis 39 Columbia University (N.Y.) 37 Pomona College (Calif.) 36 California Institute of Technology 34 Harvard University (Mass.) 34 Livingston College (N.J.) 34 Rutgers College (N.J.) 34 *Excluding historically black colleges

Grants for grades Schools that award the most in non-need-based scholarships per undergraduate

Buena Vista College (Iowa) $3,955 Jamestown College (N.D.) 3,493 Bard College (N.Y.) 3,366 Wabash College (Ind.) 3,188 Transylvania University (Ky.) 3,129 Carthage College (Wis.) 2,892 Alma College (Mich.) 2,717 Franklin College (Ind.) 2,714 Case Western Reserve (Ohio) 2,696 Mercer University (Ga.) 2,658

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