(MONEY Magazine) – West 1. California Institute of Technology 2. University of Washington 3. Pomona College (Calif.) 4. Claremont McKenna College (Calif.) 5. Harvey Mudd College (Calif.) 6. University of California-Berkeley 7. University of California-Los Angeles 8. Stanford University (Calif.) 9. Scripps College (Calif.) 10. University of California-Davis 11. University of California-San Diego 12. Thomas Aquinas College (Calif.) 13. University of California-Riverside 14. Santa Clara University (Calif.) 15. University of California-Irvine

Midwest 1. Northeast Missouri State 2. Hanover College (Ind.) 3. U. of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign 4. Hillsdale College (Mich.) 5. Wabash University (Ind.) 6. Miami University (Ohio) 7. University of Iowa 8. Creighton University (Neb.) 9. U. of Wisconsin-Madison 10. Illinois College 11. Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech (Ind.) . 12. Grinnell College (Iowa) 13. University of Missouri-Columbia 14. Central University of Iowa 15. Franklin College (Ind.) 16. Washington University (Mo.) 17. Bluffton College (Ohio) 18. Indiana U.-Bloomington 19. Rockhurst College (Mo.) 20. University of Minnesota-Morris 21. Doane College (Neb.) 22. Valparaiso University (Ind.) 23. Quincy University (Ill.) 24. University of Chicago (Ill.) 25. College of St. Benedict (Minn.)

Southwest and Mountain States 1. Rice University (Texas) 2. University of Texas-Austin 3. Trinity University (Texas) 4. Baylor University (Texas) 5. Austin College (Texas) 6. Southwestern University (Texas) 7. St. Mary' s University (Texas) 8. University of Dallas (Texas) 9. Incarnate Word (Texas) 10. Texas Christian 11. Prescott College (Ariz.) 12. University of Wyoming 13. New Mexico Tech 14. Montana Mineral Science & Tech 15. College of Santa Fe (N.M.)

Northeast 1. State U. of N.Y.-Binghamton 2. State U. of N.Y.-Geneseo 3. Yale University (Conn.) 4. State U. of N.Y.-Albany 5. State U. of N.Y.-Stony Brook 6. State U. of N.Y.-Buffalo 7. Dartmouth College (N.H.) 8. St. Bonaventure (N.Y.) 9. Elms College (Mass.) 10. Columbia University (N.Y.) 11. Siena College (N.Y.) 12. Williams College (Mass.) 13. Nazareth of Rochester (N.Y.) 14. Manhattanville College (N.Y.) 15. Harvard University (Mass.) 16. Le Moyne College (N.Y.) 17. Wells College (N.Y.) 18. Amherst College (Mass.) 19. Marymount College (N.Y.) 20. Cornell University (N.Y.) 21. Bowdoin College (Maine) 22. Wellesley College (Mass.) 23. Fordham University (N.Y.) 24. Barnard College (N.Y.) 25. State U. of N.Y.-Fredonia

Mid-Atlantic 1. Trenton State College (N.J.) 2. Rutgers U.-New Brunswick (N.J.) 3. St. Mary's College of Maryland 4. Grove City College (Pa.) 5. Washington and Lee (Va.) 6. Sweet Briar College (Va.) 7. Emory and Henry (Va.) 8. James Madison (Va.) 9. Mary Washington (Va.) 10. Camden College-Rutgers (N.J.) 11. Johns Hopkins University (Md.) ; 12. New Jersey Inst. of Technology 13. Rosemont College (Pa.) 14. University of Virginia 15. Swarthmore College (Pa.) 16. Virginia Polytechnic Institute 17. William and Mary (Va.) 18. Chestnut Hill College (Pa.) 19. Princeton University (N.J.) 20. U. of Delaware 21. St. Vincent College (Pa.) 22. U. of Maryland-College Park 23. Hollins College (Va.) 24. Pennsylvania State U. 25. U. of Scranton (Pa.)

Southeast 1. New College of the U. of South Fla. 2. Spelman College (Ga.) 3. University of N.C.-Chapel Hill 4. Wake Forest University (N.C.) 5. University of Georgia 6. Fisk University (Tenn.) 7. University of the South (Tenn.) 8. Hendrix College (Ark.) 9. Centre College (Ky.) 10. University of Florida 11. Florida State University 12. Clemson University (S.C.) 13. Samford University (Ala.) 14. Centenary College of Louisiana 15. Berry College (Ga.) 16. Salem College (N.C.) 17. Agnes Scott College (Ga.) 18. University of South Carolina 19. Bellarmine College (Ky.) 20. Birmingham-Southern U. (Ala.) 21. Transylvania University (Ky.) 22. Furman University (S.C.) 23. North Carolina State 24. Rhodes College (Tenn.) 25. Millsaps College (Miss.)