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Are you applying to college and are concerned about how to afford tuition? You may be thinking of applying to some need-blind colleges to help ease the burden of paying for college. Need-blind means that admissions officers will not consider your financial situation when making admissions decisions. This helps keep the admissions process more fair and based on merit rather than on a student's ability to pay their tuition. For an in-depth guide to need-blind colleges, check out this post here. Once you are familiar with what need-blind means, check out the list below, which outlines over 100 US colleges that are need-blind!
List of Need-Blind Colleges
Amherst College
Antioch College
Babson College
Barnard College
Baylor University
Berea College
Biola University
Boston College
Boston University
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
Brown University
Caltech
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
California Institute of Adrian College
Carnegie Mellon University
Chapman University
Claremont McKenna College
Colby College
Colgate University
College of the Ozarks
College of William and Mary
Columbia University
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Cornell College
Cornell University
Curtis Institute of Music
Dartmouth College
Davidson College
Denison University
DePaul University
Duke University
Elon University
Emory University
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Florida State University
Fordham University
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Harvard University
Harvey Mudd College
Haverford College
Hiram College
Ithaca College
Jewish Theological Seminary
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
Lafayette College
Lawrence University
Lehigh University
Lewis & Clark College
Marist College
Marlboro College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Mills College
Middlebury College
Mount St. Mary's College
New York University (NYU)
North Carolina State University (NCSU)
North Central College
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Olin College
Penn State
Pomona College
Princeton University
Providence College
Purdue University
Randolph College
Rice University
Saint Louis University
Salem College
San Jose State University
Santa Clara University
Soka University of America
Southern Methodist University (SMU)
St. John's College
St. Olaf College
Stanford University
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Swarthmore College
Syracuse University
The College of New Jersey
The Julliard School
Thomas Aquinas College
Trinity University
Tufts University
Tulane University
University of California (all UCs)
University of Chicago
University of Florida
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Miami
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
University of New Hampshire
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of Richmond
University of Rochester
University of Southern California (USC)
University of Vermont
University of Virginia
University of Washington
Ursuline College
Vanderbilt University
Vassar College
Wabash College
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Williams College
Yale University
Yeshiva University
We hope this guide has helped you identify some need-blind colleges in the US that you could apply to. Good luck with your college applications!
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