Forbes' list of
"America's Top Colleges" is out. Rice is #22.
Here's the Top 30, with
5 most generous and
5 least generous noted:
Rank - Name - Cost/Avg. Financial Aid (Aid% of Cost)
#1 Harvard University $64,400/$46,508 (
72.2%)
#2 Stanford University $64,477/$43,118 (66.9%)
#3 Yale University $66,445/$45,806 (
68.9%)
#4 Princeton University $61,160/$41,764 (
68.3%)
#5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology $63,250/$39,339 (62.2%)
#6 California Institute of Technology $63,471/$37,777 (59.5%)
#7 University of Pennsylvania $66,800/$40,276 (60.3%)
#8 Duke University $66,739/$42,704 (64.0%)
#9 Brown University - $65,380/$39,737 (60.8%)
#10 Pomona College - $64,870/$44,209 (68.2%)
#11 Claremont McKenna College - $66,325/$34,321 (
51.7%)
#12 Dartmouth College - $67,044/$43,785 (65.3%)
#13 Williams College - $66,240/$42,474 (64.1%)
#14 Columbia University - $69,084/$48,926 (
70.8%)
#15 Cornell University - $65,494/$34,941 (53.3%)
#16 University of Chicago - $70,100/$34,465 (
49.2%)
#17 Amherst College - $66,572/$47,145 (
70.8%)
#18 Harvey Mudd College - $69,355/$32,098 (
46.3%)
#19 Swarthmore College - $64,363/$40,870 (63.5%)
#20 United States Naval Academy - $0
#21 Georgetown University - $66,971/$37,791 (56.4%)
#22 Rice University - $58,253/$33,854 (58.1%)
#23 Bowdoin College - $63,440/$38,494 (60.7%)
#24 United States Military Academy - $0
#25 Haverford College - $66,648/$43,170 (64.8%)
#26 University of Notre Dame - $64,775/$35,739 (55.2%)
#27 Vanderbilt University - $63,532/$39,383 (62.0%)
#28 Northwestern University - $68,060/$34,882 (
51.3%)
#29 University of California, Berkeley - $59,963/$18,018 (
30.0%)
#30 Johns Hopkins University - $65,496/$35,195 (53.7%)