Need Based Tuition Universities 

The institutions below are committed to offering need-based financial aid packages, which may include grants, work-study opportunities, and sometimes loans to support low-income students. Many of them also have policies that provide financial aid without loans for families whose income falls below certain thresholds.  universities are committed to meeting the full demonstrated financial need of students, typically without offering merit-based scholarships.  The key for a student to apply for 8-10 of these schools. 

Ivy League Universities Offering Need-Based Aid:

1. Harvard University

2. Yale University

3. Princeton University

4. Columbia University

5. University of Pennsylvania

6. Dartmouth College

7. Brown University

8. Cornell University

Other Tier 1 Universities Offering Need-Based Aid: 

9. Stanford University
10. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
11. University of Chicago
12. California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
13. Northwestern University
14. University of California, Berkeley
15. Washington University in St. Louis
16. Duke University
17. Johns Hopkins University
18. Amherst College
19. Williams College
20. Swarthmore College
21. Pomona College
22. Bowdoin College
23. Wellesley College
24. Middlebury College
25. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
26. University of Southern California (USC)
27. Vanderbilt University
28. Rice University
29. Emory University
30. University of Notre Dame
31. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
32. Carnegie Mellon University
33. Georgetown University
34. Barnard College
35. Macalester College
36. Hamilton College
37. Claremont McKenna College
38. Haverford College
39. Davidson College
40. Trinity College
41. Colgate University
42. Skidmore College
43. Boston College
44. University of Virginia
45. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
46. University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
47. University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
48. Carleton College
49. Grinnell College
50. Colby College
51. University of Texas at Austin
52. New York University (NYU)
53. Tufts University
54. Scripps College
55. The University of Miami
56. University of Washington
57. Southern Methodist University