Financial Aid Honor Roll

We salute the following 22 colleges that received a Financial Aid Rating of 99 (the highest possible score) in our rating tallies this year.

We tallied Financial Aid Rating scores for 631 colleges this year. You can find these ratings in the profiles for those schools on our college search and in the 2027 edition of The Best 392 Colleges .

College Ratings Methodology

In alphabetical order, the schools on our 2027 Financial Aid Honor Roll are:

• Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
• Bates College (Lewiston, ME)
• Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
• California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
• Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
• Colby College (Waterville, ME)
• Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA)
• Harvard College (Cambridge, MA)
• Kenyon College (Gambier, OH)
• Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA)
• Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
• Pomona College (Claremont, CA)
• Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
• Reed College (Portland, OR)
• Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
• The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
• Union College (NY) (Schenectady, NY)
• Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
• Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA)
• Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT)
• Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
• Yale University (New Haven, CT)