Schools that offer need-based financial aid to international students (and meet 100% of demonstrated need):
If a college meets 100% of demonstrated financial need, that means that you will never be expected to pay more than your family is calculated to be able to pay (as calculated by each college); any gap between your family’s estimated family contribution and the college’s cost of attendance will be filled with a mixture of grants, work study, and sometimes small loans.
If a college is need-blind, that means your family’s ability to pay will not be a factor in admissions. If a college is not need blind, then they are need aware, meaning that your family’s ability to pay will be a factor in admissions.
Liberal arts colleges
Amherst College (Need blind)
Barnard College
Bates College
Bowdoin College (Need blind)
Bryn Mawr College
Carleton College
Claremont McKenna College
Colby College
Colgate University
Colorado College
Connecticut College
Davidson College
Denison University
Franklin and Marshall College
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Harvey Mudd College
Haverford College
College of the Holy Cross
Kenyon College
Lafayette College
Macalester College
Middlebury College
Mount Holyoke College
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Pitzer College
Pomona College
Reed College
University of Richmond
Scripps College
Sewanee: University of the South
Skidmore College
Smith College
Swarthmore College
Thomas Aquinas College
Trinity College
Union College
Vassar College
Washington and Lee University
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Williams College
Private Universities
Brown University (need-blind as of 2024/25)
Caltech
Case Western Reserve University
University of Chicago
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College (Need blind)
Duke University
Emory University
Georgetown University
Harvard University (Need blind)
Johns Hopkins University
Lehigh University
MIT (Need blind)
University of Notre Dame
Northwestern University
University of Pennsylvania
Princeton University (Need blind)
Rice University
University of Rochester
Stanford University
Tufts University
Vanderbilt University
Washington University in St. Louis
Yale University (Need blind)
Public universities
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