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List of US colleges that offer financial aid and scholarships to intl students

Since I've come to the end of my US college admissions journey now, I thought I'd share the list I put together of US colleges that offer need-based financial aid and merit scholarships to international students, as well as a few of the schools that don't, in the hopes that it might help anyone looking into applying to US unis.

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. For more information, check out the thread on need-based financial aid: https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2160183

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
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
None


Colleges that offer merit scholarships to international students:

The symbol * denotes a merit scholarship that requires a separate application and/or a scholarship that requires an interview as part of the selection process. Whilst any kind of merit scholarship will be competitive, with the majority of the time just how competitive depending on the overall selectivity of the school, scholarships with a separate application process and/or interview stage will be, as one can probably guess, mostly extremely extremely competitive.

The direct cost is the total amount of tuition, room, board, and any required fees. Optional fees (such as parking passes), transportation, miscellaneous costs (such as toiletries), and health insurance are not included as these costs can often vary person to person and can be tailored to an individual’s budget (though at some schools, health insurance is a set cost).

A full ride scholarship is a scholarship that covers the entire direct cost of a college: tuition, fees, room, and board. Some full ride scholarships may include stipends for things like study abroad, research and/or a stipend for miscellaneous living costs - it varies school to school.
As the name would suggest, a full tuition scholarship is a scholarship that covers the entire cost of tuition; living expenses (including room and board and other indirect costs such as transport) are not included.


Liberal arts colleges
Agnes Scott College (up to $25k, full ride*) [Direct]

Beloit College ($32k) [Direct]

Bucknell University ($2k*-$30k*) [Direct]

Centre College ($7.5k-$29k) [Direct]

Connecticut College ($15k-$32k) [Direct]

Davidson College ($20k, full ride*) [Direct]

Denison University ($5k-full tuition) [Direct]

DePauw University ($24k-$40k) [Direct]

Dickinson College ($15k-35k*) [Direct]

Earlham College ($20k-$30k) [Direct]

Eckerd College (up to $22k) [Direct]

Furman University (up to $35k, half tuition*) [Direct]

Gettysburg College ($5k*-$40k*) [Direct]

Grinnell College (up to half tuition) [Direct]

Harvey Mudd College ($10k, $10k(must gave participated in either VEX Robotics or FIRST Robotics)*) [Direct]

Hendrix College ($15k upwards, full ride*) [Direct]

Hillsdale College ($1k-full tuition) [Direct]

Kalamazoo College ($20k-$34k, full tuition*) [Direct]

Kenyon College ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

Knox College (up to $34k) [Direct]

Lawrence University ($20k-$31k) [Direct]

Lewis and Clark College (up to full tuition) [Direct]

Macalester College (up to $16k) [Direct]

Millsaps College ($20k-$30k) [Direct]

Mount Holyoke College (up to full tuition) [Direct]

Occidental College ($10k-$30k) [Direct]

Providence College ($20k-$30k) [Direct]

Rhodes College ($27k-$35k) [Direct]

University of Richmond (⅓ tuition, full ride*) [Direct]

Rollins College ($10k-full tuition) [Direct]

Scripps College ($15k-$28k) [Direct]

Sewanee: University of the South ($5k-$26k, $30k, full tuition, full ride) [Direct]

Smith College ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

St. John’s College ($2k-full tuition) [Direct]

St. Olaf College (up to $35k) [Direct]

Trinity College ($5k-$27k) [Direct]

Union College ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

Washington and Lee University (full ride*) [Direct]

Whitman College (up to $25k) [Direct]

Whittier College ($1k-$36k) [Direct]

Willamette University (up to $20k) [Direct]

Wofford College ($5k-$20k) [Direct]

College of Wooster ($5k-$30k) [Direct]



Private universities
American University ($8k-$22k) [Direct]

Baylor University ($12k-$23k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Butler University ($15k-$22k) [Direct]

Case Western Reserve University (full tuition*) [Direct]

Chapman University (up to $32k) [Direct]

University of Chicago ($5k for first gen college students) [Direct]

University of Denver ($10k-$27k + $3k if you live on campus) [Direct]

DePaul University ($15k-$24k) [Direct]

Duke University (full ride*) [Direct]

Elon University ($3k) [Direct]

Emory University (up to a full ride*) [Direct]

Fordham University ($1k-$12.5k, $15k, full tuition) [Direct]

Gonzaga University ($1k-$23k) [Direct]

High Point University ($5k-$20k) [Direct]

John Carroll University (up to $27k) [Direct]

Loyola Marymount University (up to $30k) [Direct]

Loyola University New Orleans ($14k-$23k) [Direct]

Marquette University ($10k-$18k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of Miami (up to $28k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Northeastern University ($10k-$30k) [Direct]

University of Notre Dame ($15k, $25k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of the Pacific ($15k) [Direct]

Pepperdine University ($30k, $36k) [Direct]

University of Portland ($8k-$15k) [Direct]

University of Redlands (up to $32k) [Direct]

Rice University ($15k, $25k) [Direct]

University of Rochester ($2k-full tuition) [Direct]

Samford University ($1k-$17k) [Direct]

University of San Francisco (up to $25k) [Direct]

Santa Clara University ($6k-$18k) [Direct]

University of Southern California ($2k-¼ tuition, half tuition*, full tuition*) [Direct]

Stetson University ($22k-$31k) [Direct]

St. Louis University ($8k-$23k) [Direct]

Syracuse University (partial tuition, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of Tampa (up to $11k) [Direct]

Texas Christian University ($12k-$25k + $4k college-based scholarship, full tuition*) [Direct]

Tulane University (up to $32k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of Tulsa ($2k-$22k) [Direct]

Valparaiso University ($5k-$30k) [Direct]

Vanderbilt University (full tuition*) [Direct]

Villanova University (full ride*) [Direct]

Wake Forest University (full ride*) [Direct]

Washington University in St. Louis ($3k*, half tuition*, full tuition*) [Direct]

Xavier University ($5k-$20k) [Direct]



Public universities
University of Alabama ($6k-full tuition + $2.5k for engineering students, full ride*) [Direct]

University of Alaska Fairbanks ($1k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Arizona ($1k-$10k) [Direct]

Arizona State University ($3k-$15.5k) [Direct]

University of Arkansas ($2k-$8k) [Direct]

Auburn University ($5.5k-$16.5k) [Direct]

Boise State University ($8k-$17k) [Direct]

University of California Riverside (up to $13.5k) [Direct]

University of California Santa Cruz ($3k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Colorado Boulder ($6.25k-$13.75k + $3k humanities) [Direct]

University of Delaware ($5k-$18k) (Direct cost = $50k]

University of Florida ($8k-$20k) [Direct]

Florida State University ($14.5k-$17k, $20k*) [Direct]

University of Georgia ($9.5k-$24k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Georgia Tech (full ride*) [Direct]

University of Hawai'i Manoa (10k-22k*) [Direct]

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (small departmental scholarships) [Direct]

Indiana University Bloomington ($1k-$11k, full ride*) [Direct]

University of Iowa ($500-$10k) [Direct]

Iowa State University ($2k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Kansas ($3k-$9k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of Kentucky ($8k-$12.5k, $3k*-$16k*) [Direct]

Louisiana State University (up to $21k) [Direct]

University of Maine ($5k-$15k) [Direct]

University of Michigan Ann Arbor ($20k*, $25k-$30k*, full ride*) [Direct]

Michigan State University (up to $25k) [Direct]

University of Minnesota Twin Cities ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

University of Mississippi ($3.5k-full tuition) [Direct]

University of Missouri ($5k-$16k) [Direct]

University of Nebraska Lincoln (up to $15k) [Direct]

University of New Hampshire ($4k-$12k) [Direct]

University of New Mexico ($15k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (full ride*) [Direct]

The Ohio State University (small departmental scholarships*) [Direct]

University of Oklahoma ($7k-$14k) [Direct]

Oklahoma State University ($4k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Oregon ($1k-$5k, $7.5k-$15k, up to $20k*, up to $30k(need-based component)*) [Direct]

Oregon State University ($3k-$6k) [Direct]

University of Pittsburgh ($2k) [Direct]

Purdue University ($10k-$16k) [Direct]

University of Rhode Island ($1.5k-$15k, full ride*) [Direct]

Rutgers University New Brunswick ($2k-$10k) [Direct]

University of South Carolina (up to $29k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Temple University ($2k-full tuition) [Direct]

University of Tennessee Knoxville ($10k-$18k, full ride*) [Direct]

Texas A&M University College Station ($2.5k-$5k) [Direct]

University of Vermont ($8k-$20k) [Direct]

University of Virginia (full ride*) [Direct]

Virginia Tech (small departmental scholarships*) [Direct]

Washington State University ($2k-$4k) [Direct]

West Virginia University ($3k-$16k) [Direct]

University of Wisconsin Madison (small departmental scholarships*) [Direct]

University of Wyoming ($4k-$7k) [Direct]



Institutions that do not offer need-based financial aid or merit scholarships to international students:

Boston College [Direct]

University of California Berkeley [Direct]

UCLA [Direct]

University of California Davis [Direct]

University of California Irvine [Direct]

University of California Merced [Direct]

University of California San Diego [Direct]

University of California Santa Barbara [Direct]

Carnegie Mellon University [Direct]

Clemson University [Direct]

Colorado School of Mines [Direct]

University of Maryland College Park [Direct]

University of Texas Austin [Direct]

University of Utah [Direct]

University of Washington Seattle [Direct]

The College of William and Mary [Direct]



A note on New York University (NYU):
NYU appears to be an incredibly popular US uni here on TSR so I thought I’d comment on it at the bottom. NYU’s direct cost is $76k (more if you are applying to Stern, the business school, or Tisch, the school of the arts); they do offer need-based financial aid to international students, however, they do not meet 100% of demonstrated need. That means that, for example, if your financial aid application demonstrates that your family can only afford $26k a year towards NYU, they do not promise, or even suggest that it is likely, that they will offer $50k in need-based financial aid. What percentage of your need is met is based on merit: i.e. how much they want you.
For more details please check out the first post on this thread which does a great deal of explaining how financial aid at NYU works: https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/parents-and-students-concerned-with-financial-aid-please-read/1079773



Please remember that I am a fallible human being who is subject to human error, so please double-check financial information before applying to a school. Information may also change year to year.

This list is by no means exhaustive; if anyone has any other names of schools and/or further information to add, please do so!
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If I am middle class will I get financial aid???
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Original post by kamara41
Since I've come to the end of my US college admissions journey now, I thought I'd share the list I put together of US colleges that offer need-based financial aid and merit scholarships to international students, as well as a few of the schools that don't, in the hopes that it might help anyone looking into applying to US unis.

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. For more information, check out the thread on need-based financial aid: https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2160183

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
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
Caltech
Case Western Reserve University
University of Chicago
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
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
None


Colleges that offer merit scholarships to international students:

The symbol * denotes a merit scholarship that requires a separate application and/or a scholarship that requires an interview as part of the selection process. Whilst any kind of merit scholarship will be competitive, with the majority of the time just how competitive depending on the overall selectivity of the school, scholarships with a separate application process and/or interview stage will be, as one can probably guess, mostly extremely extremely competitive.

The direct cost is the total amount of tuition, room, board, and any required fees. Optional fees (such as parking passes), transportation, miscellaneous costs (such as toiletries), and health insurance are not included as these costs can offer vary person to person and can be tailored to an individual’s budget (though at some schools, health insurance is a set cost).

A full ride scholarship is a scholarship that covers the entire direct cost of a college: tuition, fees, room, and board. Some full ride scholarships may include stipends for things like study abroad, research and/or a stipend for miscellaneous living costs - it varies school to school.
As the name would suggest, a full tuition scholarship is a scholarship that covers the entire cost of tuition; living expenses (including room and board and other indirect costs such as transport) are not included.


Liberal arts colleges
Agnes Scott College (up to $25k, full ride*) [Direct]

Beloit College ($32k) [Direct]

Centre College ($7.5k-$29k) [Direct]

Connecticut College ($15k-$32k) [Direct]

Davidson College ($20k, full ride*) [Direct]

Denison University ($5k-full tuition) [Direct]

DePauw University ($24k-$40k) [Direct]

Earlham College ($20k-$30k) [Direct]

Eckerd College (up to $22k) [Direct]

Furman University (up to $35k, half tuition*) [Direct]

Grinnell College (up to half tuition) [Direct]

Hendrix College ($15k upwards, full ride*) [Direct]

Kalamazoo College ($20k-$34k, full tuition*) [Direct]

Kenyon College ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

Knox College (up to $34k) [Direct]

Lawrence University ($20k-$31k) [Direct]

Lewis and Clark College (up to full tuition) [Direct]

Macalester College (up to $16k) [Direct]

Millsaps College ($20k-$30k) [Direct]

Mount Holyoke College (up to full tuition) [Direct]

Occidental College ($10k-$30k) [Direct]

Rhodes College ($27k-$35k) [Direct]

University of Richmond (⅓ tuition, full ride*) [Direct]

Rollins College ($10k-full tuition) [Direct]

Scripps College ($15k-$28k) [Direct]

Sewanee: University of the South ($5k-$26k, $30k, full tuition, full ride) [Direct]

Smith College ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

St. John’s College ($2k-full tuition) [Direct]

St. Olaf College (up to $35k) [Direct]

Trinity College ($5k-$27k) [Direct]

Union College ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

Washington and Lee University (full ride*) [Direct]

Whitman College (up to $25k) [Direct]

Whittier College ($1k-$36k) [Direct]

Willamette University (up to $20k) [Direct]

Wofford College ($5k-$20k) [Direct]

College of Wooster ($5k-$30k) [Direct]



Private universities
American University ($8k-$22k) [Direct]

Baylor University ($12k-$23k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Butler University ($15k-$22k) [Direct]

Case Western Reserve University (full tuition*) [Direct]

Chapman University (up to $32k) [Direct]

University of Chicago ($5k for first gen college students) [Direct]

University of Denver ($10k-$27k + $3k if you live on campus) [Direct]

DePaul University ($15k-$24k) [Direct]

Duke University (full ride*) [Direct]

Elon University ($3k) [Direct]

Emory University (up to a full ride*) [Direct]

Fordham University ($1k-$12.5k, $15k, full tuition) [Direct]

Gonzaga University ($1k-$23k) [Direct]

High Point University ($5k-$20k) [Direct]

John Carroll University (up to $27k) [Direct]

Loyola Marymount University (up to $30k) [Direct]

Loyola University New Orleans ($14k-$23k) [Direct]

Marquette University ($10k-$18k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of Miami (up to $28k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Northeastern University ($10k-$30k) [Direct]

University of Notre Dame ($15k, $25k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of the Pacific ($15k) [Direct]

Pepperdine University ($30k, $36k) [Direct]

University of Portland ($8k-$15k) [Direct]

University of Redlands (up to $32k) [Direct]

Rice University ($15k, $25k) [Direct]

University of Rochester ($2k-full tuition) [Direct]

Samford University ($1k-$17k) [Direct]

University of San Francisco (up to $25k) [Direct]

Santa Clara University ($6k-$18k) [Direct]

University of Southern California ($2k-¼ tuition, half tuition*, full tuition*) [Direct]

Stetson University ($22k-$31k) [Direct]

St. Louis University ($8k-$23k) [Direct]

Syracuse University (partial tuition, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of Tampa (up to $11k) [Direct]

Texas Christian University ($12k-$25k + $4k college-based scholarship, full tuition*) [Direct]

Tulane University (up to $32k) [Direct]

University of Tulsa ($2k-$22k) [Direct]

Valparaiso University ($5k-$30k) [Direct]

Vanderbilt University (full tuition*) [Direct]

Villanova University (full ride*) [Direct]

Wake Forest University (full ride*) [Direct]

Washington University in St. Louis ($3k*, half tuition*, full tuition*) [Direct]

Xavier University ($5k-$20k) [Direct]



Public universities
University of Alabama ($6k-full tuition + $2.5k for engineering students, full ride*) [Direct]

University of Arizona ($1k-$10k) [Direct]

Arizona State University ($3k-$15.5k) [Direct]

Auburn University ($5.5k-$16.5k) [Direct]

Boise State University ($8k-$17k) [Direct]

University of California Riverside (up to $13.5k) [Direct]

University of California Santa Cruz ($3k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Colorado Boulder ($6.25k-$13.75k + $3k humanities) [Direct]

University of Delaware ($5k-$18k) (Direct cost = $50k]

University of Florida ($8k-$20k) [Direct]

Florida State University ($14.5k-$17k, $20k*) [Direct]

University of Georgia ($9.5k-$24k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (small departmental scholarships) [Direct]

Indiana University Bloomington ($1k-$11k, full ride*) [Direct]

University of Iowa ($500-$10k) [Direct]

Iowa State University ($2k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Kansas ($3k-$9k, full tuition*) [Direct]

Louisiana State University (up to $21k) [Direct]

University of Maine ($5k-$15k) [Direct]

University of Michigan Ann Arbor ($20k*, $25k-$30k*, full ride*) [Direct]

Michigan State University (up to $25k) [Direct]

University of Minnesota Twin Cities ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

University of Mississippi ($3.5k-full tuition) [Direct]

University of Missouri ($5k-$16k) [Direct]

University of Nebraska Lincoln (up to $15k) [Direct]

University of New Hampshire ($4k-$12k) [Direct]

University of New Mexico ($15k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (full ride*) [Direct]

The Ohio State University (small departmental scholarships*) [Direct]

University of Oklahoma ($7k-$14k) [Direct]

Oklahoma State University ($4k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Oregon ($7.5k-$15k, $20k*, $30k(need-based component)*) [Direct]

Oregon State University ($3k-$6k) [Direct]

University of Pittsburgh ($2k) [Direct]

Purdue University ($10k-$16k) [Direct]

University of Rhode Island ($1.5k-$15k, full ride*) [Direct]

Rutgers University New Brunswick ($2k-$10k) [Direct]

University of South Carolina (up to $29k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Temple University ($2k-full tuition) [Direct]

University of Tennessee Knoxville ($10k-$18k, full ride*) [Direct]

Texas A&M University College Station ($2.5k-$5k) [Direct]

University of Vermont ($8k-$20k) [Direct]

University of Virginia (full ride*) [Direct]

Virginia Tech (small departmental scholarships*) [Direct]

Washington State University ($2k-$4k) [Direct]

West Virginia University ($3k-$16k) [Direct]

University of Wisconsin Madison (small departmental scholarships*) [Direct]

University of Wyoming ($4k-$7k) [Direct]



Institutions that do not offer need-based financial aid or merit scholarships to international students:

University of California Berkeley [Direct]

UCLA [Direct]

University of California Davis [Direct]

University of California Irvine [Direct]

University of California Merced [Direct]

University of California San Diego [Direct]

University of California Santa Barbara [Direct]

Clemson University [Direct]

Colorado School of Mines [Direct]

Georgia Tech [Direct]

University of Maryland College Park [Direct]

University of Texas Austin [Direct]

University of Utah [Direct]

University of Washington Seattle [Direct]

The College of William and Mary [Direct]



A note on New York University (NYU):
NYU appears to be an incredibly popular US uni here on TSR so I thought I’d comment on it on the bottom. NYU’s direct cost is $76k (more if you are applying to Stern, the business school, or Tisch, the school of the arts); they do offer need-based financial aid to international students, however, they do not meet 100% of demonstrated need. That means that, for example, if your financial aid application demonstrates that your family can only afford $26k a year towards NYU, they do not promise, or even suggest that it is likely, that they will offer $50k in need-based financial aid. What percentage of your need is met is based on merit: i.e. how much they want you.
For more details please check out the first post on this thread which does a great deal of explaining how financial aid at NYU works: https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/parents-and-students-concerned-with-financial-aid-please-read/1079773



Please remember that I am a fallible human being who is subject to human error, so please double-check financial information before applying to a school. Information may also change year to year.

This list is by no means exhaustive; if anyone has any other names of schools and/or further information to add, please do so!


PRSOM! This is an amazing resource.
Original post by kamara41
Since I've come to the end of my US college admissions journey now, I thought I'd share the list I put together of US colleges that offer need-based financial aid and merit scholarships to international students, as well as a few of the schools that don't, in the hopes that it might help anyone looking into applying to US unis.

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. For more information, check out the thread on need-based financial aid: https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2160183

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
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
Caltech
Case Western Reserve University
University of Chicago
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
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
None


Colleges that offer merit scholarships to international students:

The symbol * denotes a merit scholarship that requires a separate application and/or a scholarship that requires an interview as part of the selection process. Whilst any kind of merit scholarship will be competitive, with the majority of the time just how competitive depending on the overall selectivity of the school, scholarships with a separate application process and/or interview stage will be, as one can probably guess, mostly extremely extremely competitive.

The direct cost is the total amount of tuition, room, board, and any required fees. Optional fees (such as parking passes), transportation, miscellaneous costs (such as toiletries), and health insurance are not included as these costs can offer vary person to person and can be tailored to an individual’s budget (though at some schools, health insurance is a set cost).

A full ride scholarship is a scholarship that covers the entire direct cost of a college: tuition, fees, room, and board. Some full ride scholarships may include stipends for things like study abroad, research and/or a stipend for miscellaneous living costs - it varies school to school.
As the name would suggest, a full tuition scholarship is a scholarship that covers the entire cost of tuition; living expenses (including room and board and other indirect costs such as transport) are not included.


Liberal arts colleges
Agnes Scott College (up to $25k, full ride*) [Direct]

Beloit College ($32k) [Direct]

Centre College ($7.5k-$29k) [Direct]

Connecticut College ($15k-$32k) [Direct]

Davidson College ($20k, full ride*) [Direct]

Denison University ($5k-full tuition) [Direct]

DePauw University ($24k-$40k) [Direct]

Earlham College ($20k-$30k) [Direct]

Eckerd College (up to $22k) [Direct]

Furman University (up to $35k, half tuition*) [Direct]

Grinnell College (up to half tuition) [Direct]

Hendrix College ($15k upwards, full ride*) [Direct]

Kalamazoo College ($20k-$34k, full tuition*) [Direct]

Kenyon College ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

Knox College (up to $34k) [Direct]

Lawrence University ($20k-$31k) [Direct]

Lewis and Clark College (up to full tuition) [Direct]

Macalester College (up to $16k) [Direct]

Millsaps College ($20k-$30k) [Direct]

Mount Holyoke College (up to full tuition) [Direct]

Occidental College ($10k-$30k) [Direct]

Rhodes College ($27k-$35k) [Direct]

University of Richmond (⅓ tuition, full ride*) [Direct]

Rollins College ($10k-full tuition) [Direct]

Scripps College ($15k-$28k) [Direct]

Sewanee: University of the South ($5k-$26k, $30k, full tuition, full ride) [Direct]

Smith College ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

St. John’s College ($2k-full tuition) [Direct]

St. Olaf College (up to $35k) [Direct]

Trinity College ($5k-$27k) [Direct]

Union College ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

Washington and Lee University (full ride*) [Direct]

Whitman College (up to $25k) [Direct]

Whittier College ($1k-$36k) [Direct]

Willamette University (up to $20k) [Direct]

Wofford College ($5k-$20k) [Direct]

College of Wooster ($5k-$30k) [Direct]



Private universities
American University ($8k-$22k) [Direct]

Baylor University ($12k-$23k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Butler University ($15k-$22k) [Direct]

Case Western Reserve University (full tuition*) [Direct]

Chapman University (up to $32k) [Direct]

University of Chicago ($5k for first gen college students) [Direct]

University of Denver ($10k-$27k + $3k if you live on campus) [Direct]

DePaul University ($15k-$24k) [Direct]

Duke University (full ride*) [Direct]

Elon University ($3k) [Direct]

Emory University (up to a full ride*) [Direct]

Fordham University ($1k-$12.5k, $15k, full tuition) [Direct]

Gonzaga University ($1k-$23k) [Direct]

High Point University ($5k-$20k) [Direct]

John Carroll University (up to $27k) [Direct]

Loyola Marymount University (up to $30k) [Direct]

Loyola University New Orleans ($14k-$23k) [Direct]

Marquette University ($10k-$18k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of Miami (up to $28k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Northeastern University ($10k-$30k) [Direct]

University of Notre Dame ($15k, $25k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of the Pacific ($15k) [Direct]

Pepperdine University ($30k, $36k) [Direct]

University of Portland ($8k-$15k) [Direct]

University of Redlands (up to $32k) [Direct]

Rice University ($15k, $25k) [Direct]

University of Rochester ($2k-full tuition) [Direct]

Samford University ($1k-$17k) [Direct]

University of San Francisco (up to $25k) [Direct]

Santa Clara University ($6k-$18k) [Direct]

University of Southern California ($2k-¼ tuition, half tuition*, full tuition*) [Direct]

Stetson University ($22k-$31k) [Direct]

St. Louis University ($8k-$23k) [Direct]

Syracuse University (partial tuition, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of Tampa (up to $11k) [Direct]

Texas Christian University ($12k-$25k + $4k college-based scholarship, full tuition*) [Direct]

Tulane University (up to $32k) [Direct]

University of Tulsa ($2k-$22k) [Direct]

Valparaiso University ($5k-$30k) [Direct]

Vanderbilt University (full tuition*) [Direct]

Villanova University (full ride*) [Direct]

Wake Forest University (full ride*) [Direct]

Washington University in St. Louis ($3k*, half tuition*, full tuition*) [Direct]

Xavier University ($5k-$20k) [Direct]



Public universities
University of Alabama ($6k-full tuition + $2.5k for engineering students, full ride*) [Direct]

University of Arizona ($1k-$10k) [Direct]

Arizona State University ($3k-$15.5k) [Direct]

Auburn University ($5.5k-$16.5k) [Direct]

Boise State University ($8k-$17k) [Direct]

University of California Riverside (up to $13.5k) [Direct]

University of California Santa Cruz ($3k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Colorado Boulder ($6.25k-$13.75k + $3k humanities) [Direct]

University of Delaware ($5k-$18k) (Direct cost = $50k]

University of Florida ($8k-$20k) [Direct]

Florida State University ($14.5k-$17k, $20k*) [Direct]

University of Georgia ($9.5k-$24k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (small departmental scholarships) [Direct]

Indiana University Bloomington ($1k-$11k, full ride*) [Direct]

University of Iowa ($500-$10k) [Direct]

Iowa State University ($2k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Kansas ($3k-$9k, full tuition*) [Direct]

Louisiana State University (up to $21k) [Direct]

University of Maine ($5k-$15k) [Direct]

University of Michigan Ann Arbor ($20k*, $25k-$30k*, full ride*) [Direct]

Michigan State University (up to $25k) [Direct]

University of Minnesota Twin Cities ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

University of Mississippi ($3.5k-full tuition) [Direct]

University of Missouri ($5k-$16k) [Direct]

University of Nebraska Lincoln (up to $15k) [Direct]

University of New Hampshire ($4k-$12k) [Direct]

University of New Mexico ($15k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (full ride*) [Direct]

The Ohio State University (small departmental scholarships*) [Direct]

University of Oklahoma ($7k-$14k) [Direct]

Oklahoma State University ($4k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Oregon ($7.5k-$15k, $20k*, $30k(need-based component)*) [Direct]

Oregon State University ($3k-$6k) [Direct]

University of Pittsburgh ($2k) [Direct]

Purdue University ($10k-$16k) [Direct]

University of Rhode Island ($1.5k-$15k, full ride*) [Direct]

Rutgers University New Brunswick ($2k-$10k) [Direct]

University of South Carolina (up to $29k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Temple University ($2k-full tuition) [Direct]

University of Tennessee Knoxville ($10k-$18k, full ride*) [Direct]

Texas A&M University College Station ($2.5k-$5k) [Direct]

University of Vermont ($8k-$20k) [Direct]

University of Virginia (full ride*) [Direct]

Virginia Tech (small departmental scholarships*) [Direct]

Washington State University ($2k-$4k) [Direct]

West Virginia University ($3k-$16k) [Direct]

University of Wisconsin Madison (small departmental scholarships*) [Direct]

University of Wyoming ($4k-$7k) [Direct]



Institutions that do not offer need-based financial aid or merit scholarships to international students:

University of California Berkeley [Direct]

UCLA [Direct]

University of California Davis [Direct]

University of California Irvine [Direct]

University of California Merced [Direct]

University of California San Diego [Direct]

University of California Santa Barbara [Direct]

Clemson University [Direct]

Colorado School of Mines [Direct]

Georgia Tech [Direct]

University of Maryland College Park [Direct]

University of Texas Austin [Direct]

University of Utah [Direct]

University of Washington Seattle [Direct]

The College of William and Mary [Direct]



A note on New York University (NYU):
NYU appears to be an incredibly popular US uni here on TSR so I thought I’d comment on it on the bottom. NYU’s direct cost is $76k (more if you are applying to Stern, the business school, or Tisch, the school of the arts); they do offer need-based financial aid to international students, however, they do not meet 100% of demonstrated need. That means that, for example, if your financial aid application demonstrates that your family can only afford $26k a year towards NYU, they do not promise, or even suggest that it is likely, that they will offer $50k in need-based financial aid. What percentage of your need is met is based on merit: i.e. how much they want you.
For more details please check out the first post on this thread which does a great deal of explaining how financial aid at NYU works: https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/parents-and-students-concerned-with-financial-aid-please-read/1079773



Please remember that I am a fallible human being who is subject to human error, so please double-check financial information before applying to a school. Information may also change year to year.

This list is by no means exhaustive; if anyone has any other names of schools and/or further information to add, please do so!

Wow Kamara41 (or should I say collegeboundbrit :wink:), this is an amazing resource! I found similar (now dated ones) on CollegeConfidential, but nothing to this degree and completeness. Thanks very much, it's an incredible job!

Is there any way for the mods to pin this in "the study in North America" forum, because this has the potential to help and
clarify things for so many interested people!

On a side note, I also think you (and ry7xsfa) have tried to help so many people on this thread, and done a wonderful job. When you finally sail off to Baylor this will be a poorer place for students interested in the USA.
I truly hope you enjoy Texas, you most certainly deserve it.
Reply 4
Original post by Sandtrooper
PRSOM! This is an amazing resource.

definetely! it must get pinned, at the top!, can u help?
Original post by pet973
definetely! it must get pinned, at the top!, can u help?


Done :smile:
Georgia Tech actually does offer merit scholarships to international students. The Stamp's Scholarship is available to UK citizens.

Harvey Mudd also offers a few scholarships that international students can apply for if they meet other requirements.
Reply 7
Original post by ry7xsfa
Georgia Tech actually does offer merit scholarships to international students. The Stamp's Scholarship is available to UK citizens.

Harvey Mudd also offers a few scholarships that international students can apply for if they meet other requirements.

Oh missed that about the stamps - thanks v much for letting me know! I'll go in and edit that. Is the stamps a full ride? Edit: just googled, is a full ride

Do you know how much the merit scholarships at HMC are? I'll go right ahead and add em to the merit list. Thanks so much queen!

PRSOM
(edited 2 years ago)
Original post by kamara41
Oh missed that about the stamps - thanks v much for letting me know! I'll go in and edit that. Is the stamps a full ride? Edit: just googled, is a full ride

Do you know how much the merit scholarships at HMC are? I'll go right ahead and add em to the merit list. Thanks so much queen!

PRSOM

As far as I know, there are 1 or 2 that internationals can be considered for ($10k) automatically, and another few for $10k with an application if you have done some very specific ECs in high school (either VEX Robotics or FIRST Robotics).
Reply 9
Original post by Anonymous
Wow Kamara41 (or should I say collegeboundbrit :wink:), this is an amazing resource! I found similar (now dated ones) on CollegeConfidential, but nothing to this degree and completeness. Thanks very much, it's an incredible job!

Is there any way for the mods to pin this in "the study in North America" forum, because this has the potential to help and
clarify things for so many interested people!

On a side note, I also think you (and ry7xsfa) have tried to help so many people on this thread, and done a wonderful job. When you finally sail off to Baylor this will be a poorer place for students interested in the USA.
I truly hope you enjoy Texas, you most certainly deserve it.

Aww, thank you! I know I speak for quite a few of us when I say that I've done tons of research into this crazy process and just wanna be able to pass some of that knowledge on.

And yes ry7xsfa is amazing! They've been on TSR way longer than I have helping people out and offering great advice - they're an absolute gem.

And I'm screaming! Awesome detective skills, Haha. A fellow CCer. Now I'm wondering who you are on CC, Haha.
Next step, come find me on ApplyingToCollege Reddit :wink:

Sic em bears!
kamara41 and ry7xsfa , you two are brilliant all around! Both of your advice and resources has been great (definitely not biased towards ry or anything absolutely not:biggrin:)
(edited 2 years ago)
Original post by GremlinIAMH
kamara41 and ry7xsfa , you two are brilliant all around! Both of your advice and resources has been great (definitely not biased towards ry or anything absolutely not:biggrin:)

totally not
Original post by kamara41
Since I've come to the end of my US college admissions journey now, I thought I'd share the list I put together of US colleges that offer need-based financial aid and merit scholarships to international students, as well as a few of the schools that don't, in the hopes that it might help anyone looking into applying to US unis.

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. For more information, check out the thread on need-based financial aid: https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2160183

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
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
Caltech
Case Western Reserve University
University of Chicago
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
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
None


Colleges that offer merit scholarships to international students:

The symbol * denotes a merit scholarship that requires a separate application and/or a scholarship that requires an interview as part of the selection process. Whilst any kind of merit scholarship will be competitive, with the majority of the time just how competitive depending on the overall selectivity of the school, scholarships with a separate application process and/or interview stage will be, as one can probably guess, mostly extremely extremely competitive.

The direct cost is the total amount of tuition, room, board, and any required fees. Optional fees (such as parking passes), transportation, miscellaneous costs (such as toiletries), and health insurance are not included as these costs can offer vary person to person and can be tailored to an individual’s budget (though at some schools, health insurance is a set cost).

A full ride scholarship is a scholarship that covers the entire direct cost of a college: tuition, fees, room, and board. Some full ride scholarships may include stipends for things like study abroad, research and/or a stipend for miscellaneous living costs - it varies school to school.
As the name would suggest, a full tuition scholarship is a scholarship that covers the entire cost of tuition; living expenses (including room and board and other indirect costs such as transport) are not included.


Liberal arts colleges
Agnes Scott College (up to $25k, full ride*) [Direct]

Beloit College ($32k) [Direct]

Centre College ($7.5k-$29k) [Direct]

Connecticut College ($15k-$32k) [Direct]

Davidson College ($20k, full ride*) [Direct]

Denison University ($5k-full tuition) [Direct]

DePauw University ($24k-$40k) [Direct]

Earlham College ($20k-$30k) [Direct]

Eckerd College (up to $22k) [Direct]

Furman University (up to $35k, half tuition*) [Direct]

Grinnell College (up to half tuition) [Direct]

Harvey Mudd College ($10k, $10k(must gave participated in either VEX Robotics or FIRST Robotics)*) [Direct]

Hendrix College ($15k upwards, full ride*) [Direct]

Kalamazoo College ($20k-$34k, full tuition*) [Direct]

Kenyon College ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

Knox College (up to $34k) [Direct]

Lawrence University ($20k-$31k) [Direct]

Lewis and Clark College (up to full tuition) [Direct]

Macalester College (up to $16k) [Direct]

Millsaps College ($20k-$30k) [Direct]

Mount Holyoke College (up to full tuition) [Direct]

Occidental College ($10k-$30k) [Direct]

Providence College ($20k-$30k) [Direct]

Rhodes College ($27k-$35k) [Direct]

University of Richmond (⅓ tuition, full ride*) [Direct]

Rollins College ($10k-full tuition) [Direct]

Scripps College ($15k-$28k) [Direct]

Sewanee: University of the South ($5k-$26k, $30k, full tuition, full ride) [Direct]

Smith College ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

St. John’s College ($2k-full tuition) [Direct]

St. Olaf College (up to $35k) [Direct]

Trinity College ($5k-$27k) [Direct]

Union College ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

Washington and Lee University (full ride*) [Direct]

Whitman College (up to $25k) [Direct]

Whittier College ($1k-$36k) [Direct]

Willamette University (up to $20k) [Direct]

Wofford College ($5k-$20k) [Direct]

College of Wooster ($5k-$30k) [Direct]



Private universities
American University ($8k-$22k) [Direct]

Baylor University ($12k-$23k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Butler University ($15k-$22k) [Direct]

Case Western Reserve University (full tuition*) [Direct]

Chapman University (up to $32k) [Direct]

University of Chicago ($5k for first gen college students) [Direct]

University of Denver ($10k-$27k + $3k if you live on campus) [Direct]

DePaul University ($15k-$24k) [Direct]

Duke University (full ride*) [Direct]

Elon University ($3k) [Direct]

Emory University (up to a full ride*) [Direct]

Fordham University ($1k-$12.5k, $15k, full tuition) [Direct]

Gonzaga University ($1k-$23k) [Direct]

High Point University ($5k-$20k) [Direct]

John Carroll University (up to $27k) [Direct]

Loyola Marymount University (up to $30k) [Direct]

Loyola University New Orleans ($14k-$23k) [Direct]

Marquette University ($10k-$18k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of Miami (up to $28k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Northeastern University ($10k-$30k) [Direct]

University of Notre Dame ($15k, $25k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of the Pacific ($15k) [Direct]

Pepperdine University ($30k, $36k) [Direct]

University of Portland ($8k-$15k) [Direct]

University of Redlands (up to $32k) [Direct]

Rice University ($15k, $25k) [Direct]

University of Rochester ($2k-full tuition) [Direct]

Samford University ($1k-$17k) [Direct]

University of San Francisco (up to $25k) [Direct]

Santa Clara University ($6k-$18k) [Direct]

University of Southern California ($2k-¼ tuition, half tuition*, full tuition*) [Direct]

Stetson University ($22k-$31k) [Direct]

St. Louis University ($8k-$23k) [Direct]

Syracuse University (partial tuition, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of Tampa (up to $11k) [Direct]

Texas Christian University ($12k-$25k + $4k college-based scholarship, full tuition*) [Direct]

Tulane University (up to $32k) [Direct]

University of Tulsa ($2k-$22k) [Direct]

Valparaiso University ($5k-$30k) [Direct]

Vanderbilt University (full tuition*) [Direct]

Villanova University (full ride*) [Direct]

Wake Forest University (full ride*) [Direct]

Washington University in St. Louis ($3k*, half tuition*, full tuition*) [Direct]

Xavier University ($5k-$20k) [Direct]



Public universities
University of Alabama ($6k-full tuition + $2.5k for engineering students, full ride*) [Direct]

University of Arizona ($1k-$10k) [Direct]

Arizona State University ($3k-$15.5k) [Direct]

University of Arkansas ($2k-$8k) [Direct]

Auburn University ($5.5k-$16.5k) [Direct]

Boise State University ($8k-$17k) [Direct]

University of California Riverside (up to $13.5k) [Direct]

University of California Santa Cruz ($3k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Colorado Boulder ($6.25k-$13.75k + $3k humanities) [Direct]

University of Delaware ($5k-$18k) (Direct cost = $50k]

University of Florida ($8k-$20k) [Direct]

Florida State University ($14.5k-$17k, $20k*) [Direct]

University of Georgia ($9.5k-$24k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Georgia Tech (full ride*) [Direct]

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (small departmental scholarships) [Direct]

Indiana University Bloomington ($1k-$11k, full ride*) [Direct]

University of Iowa ($500-$10k) [Direct]

Iowa State University ($2k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Kansas ($3k-$9k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of Kentucky ($8k-$12.5k, $3k*-$16k*) [Direct]

Louisiana State University (up to $21k) [Direct]

University of Maine ($5k-$15k) [Direct]

University of Michigan Ann Arbor ($20k*, $25k-$30k*, full ride*) [Direct]

Michigan State University (up to $25k) [Direct]

University of Minnesota Twin Cities ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

University of Mississippi ($3.5k-full tuition) [Direct]

University of Missouri ($5k-$16k) [Direct]

University of Nebraska Lincoln (up to $15k) [Direct]

University of New Hampshire ($4k-$12k) [Direct]

University of New Mexico ($15k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (full ride*) [Direct]

The Ohio State University (small departmental scholarships*) [Direct]

University of Oklahoma ($7k-$14k) [Direct]

Oklahoma State University ($4k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Oregon ($1k-$5k, $7.5k-$15k, up to $20k*, up to $30k(need-based component)*) [Direct]

Oregon State University ($3k-$6k) [Direct]

University of Pittsburgh ($2k) [Direct]

Purdue University ($10k-$16k) [Direct]

University of Rhode Island ($1.5k-$15k, full ride*) [Direct]

Rutgers University New Brunswick ($2k-$10k) [Direct]

University of South Carolina (up to $29k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Temple University ($2k-full tuition) [Direct]

University of Tennessee Knoxville ($10k-$18k, full ride*) [Direct]

Texas A&M University College Station ($2.5k-$5k) [Direct]

University of Vermont ($8k-$20k) [Direct]

University of Virginia (full ride*) [Direct]

Virginia Tech (small departmental scholarships*) [Direct]

Washington State University ($2k-$4k) [Direct]

West Virginia University ($3k-$16k) [Direct]

University of Wisconsin Madison (small departmental scholarships*) [Direct]

University of Wyoming ($4k-$7k) [Direct]



Institutions that do not offer need-based financial aid or merit scholarships to international students:

University of California Berkeley [Direct]

UCLA [Direct]

University of California Davis [Direct]

University of California Irvine [Direct]

University of California Merced [Direct]

University of California San Diego [Direct]

University of California Santa Barbara [Direct]

Clemson University [Direct]

Colorado School of Mines [Direct]

University of Maryland College Park [Direct]

University of Texas Austin [Direct]

University of Utah [Direct]

University of Washington Seattle [Direct]

The College of William and Mary [Direct]



A note on New York University (NYU):
NYU appears to be an incredibly popular US uni here on TSR so I thought I’d comment on it at the bottom. NYU’s direct cost is $76k (more if you are applying to Stern, the business school, or Tisch, the school of the arts); they do offer need-based financial aid to international students, however, they do not meet 100% of demonstrated need. That means that, for example, if your financial aid application demonstrates that your family can only afford $26k a year towards NYU, they do not promise, or even suggest that it is likely, that they will offer $50k in need-based financial aid. What percentage of your need is met is based on merit: i.e. how much they want you.
For more details please check out the first post on this thread which does a great deal of explaining how financial aid at NYU works: https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/parents-and-students-concerned-with-financial-aid-please-read/1079773



Please remember that I am a fallible human being who is subject to human error, so please double-check financial information before applying to a school. Information may also change year to year.

This list is by no means exhaustive; if anyone has any other names of schools and/or further information to add, please do so!

Thank you so much for this - as a prospective student who knows they will have to rely on merit scholarships this really helps me! Hopefully I get some or I know I won't be able to afford uni out there even if I get in.
Reply 13
Original post by PhantomMercy
Thank you so much for this - as a prospective student who knows they will have to rely on merit scholarships this really helps me! Hopefully I get some or I know I won't be able to afford uni out there even if I get in.

No worries, glad I could help.

I looked pretty much exclusively at merit scholarships so if you have any questions about what my experience was with it/how to go about it just lemme know.

Three tips:
1. If you haven't already, have the, potentially uncomfortable, but important and necessary conversation about the specifics of finances with your family. and get an exact budget for how much you can afford each year, remembering you'll also need to account for health insurance, transport, and miscellaneous costs on top of tuition, room, and board.
2. If you're able to take a test before applying, a strong SAT or ACT is gold when it comes to merit scholarships and will open up so much money, especially at larger schools (smaller schools, on average, tend to be more holistic when it comes to awarding merit scholarships, whilst larger schools, on average, tend to be more stats focused).
3. For safeties, look at schools that offer automatic merit scholarships based on grades and an SAT/ACT score. There are quite a few schools that offer automatic full tuition scholarships, or at least close to automatic full tuition scholarships, but when it comes to educational value, you really can't beat the University of Alabama or the University of Mississippi so definitely worth looking into those two unis, or at least they
Alabama - if you have at least a 6.5 average in your GCSEs and either a 32 composite ACT or a 1420 composite SAT score, you'll get a scholarship worth $28k towards their $30k out of state tuition, plus an automatic acceptance with those stats.
Ole Miss - if you have a 6 average in your GCSEs and either a 33 ACT or 1450 SAT score, you'll get a full tuition scholarship (I think it may be a few hundred dollars shy of full tuition, but basically full tuition).
And as I said, there are also schools that will offer automatic full tuition scholarships, but those two are the highest ranked that do and the only ones I know off the top of my head.
Reply 14
Original post by kamara41
Since I've come to the end of my US college admissions journey now, I thought I'd share the list I put together of US colleges that offer need-based financial aid and merit scholarships to international students, as well as a few of the schools that don't, in the hopes that it might help anyone looking into applying to US unis.

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. For more information, check out the thread on need-based financial aid: https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2160183

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
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
Caltech
Case Western Reserve University
University of Chicago
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
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
None


Colleges that offer merit scholarships to international students:

The symbol * denotes a merit scholarship that requires a separate application and/or a scholarship that requires an interview as part of the selection process. Whilst any kind of merit scholarship will be competitive, with the majority of the time just how competitive depending on the overall selectivity of the school, scholarships with a separate application process and/or interview stage will be, as one can probably guess, mostly extremely extremely competitive.

The direct cost is the total amount of tuition, room, board, and any required fees. Optional fees (such as parking passes), transportation, miscellaneous costs (such as toiletries), and health insurance are not included as these costs can offer vary person to person and can be tailored to an individual’s budget (though at some schools, health insurance is a set cost).

A full ride scholarship is a scholarship that covers the entire direct cost of a college: tuition, fees, room, and board. Some full ride scholarships may include stipends for things like study abroad, research and/or a stipend for miscellaneous living costs - it varies school to school.
As the name would suggest, a full tuition scholarship is a scholarship that covers the entire cost of tuition; living expenses (including room and board and other indirect costs such as transport) are not included.


Liberal arts colleges
Agnes Scott College (up to $25k, full ride*) [Direct]

Beloit College ($32k) [Direct]

Centre College ($7.5k-$29k) [Direct]

Connecticut College ($15k-$32k) [Direct]

Davidson College ($20k, full ride*) [Direct]

Denison University ($5k-full tuition) [Direct]

DePauw University ($24k-$40k) [Direct]

Earlham College ($20k-$30k) [Direct]

Eckerd College (up to $22k) [Direct]

Furman University (up to $35k, half tuition*) [Direct]

Grinnell College (up to half tuition) [Direct]

Harvey Mudd College ($10k, $10k(must gave participated in either VEX Robotics or FIRST Robotics)*) [Direct]

Hendrix College ($15k upwards, full ride*) [Direct]

Kalamazoo College ($20k-$34k, full tuition*) [Direct]

Kenyon College ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

Knox College (up to $34k) [Direct]

Lawrence University ($20k-$31k) [Direct]

Lewis and Clark College (up to full tuition) [Direct]

Macalester College (up to $16k) [Direct]

Millsaps College ($20k-$30k) [Direct]

Mount Holyoke College (up to full tuition) [Direct]

Occidental College ($10k-$30k) [Direct]

Providence College ($20k-$30k) [Direct]

Rhodes College ($27k-$35k) [Direct]

University of Richmond (⅓ tuition, full ride*) [Direct]

Rollins College ($10k-full tuition) [Direct]

Scripps College ($15k-$28k) [Direct]

Sewanee: University of the South ($5k-$26k, $30k, full tuition, full ride) [Direct]

Smith College ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

St. John’s College ($2k-full tuition) [Direct]

St. Olaf College (up to $35k) [Direct]

Trinity College ($5k-$27k) [Direct]

Union College ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

Washington and Lee University (full ride*) [Direct]

Whitman College (up to $25k) [Direct]

Whittier College ($1k-$36k) [Direct]

Willamette University (up to $20k) [Direct]

Wofford College ($5k-$20k) [Direct]

College of Wooster ($5k-$30k) [Direct]



Private universities
American University ($8k-$22k) [Direct]

Baylor University ($12k-$23k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Butler University ($15k-$22k) [Direct]

Case Western Reserve University (full tuition*) [Direct]

Chapman University (up to $32k) [Direct]

University of Chicago ($5k for first gen college students) [Direct]

University of Denver ($10k-$27k + $3k if you live on campus) [Direct]

DePaul University ($15k-$24k) [Direct]

Duke University (full ride*) [Direct]

Elon University ($3k) [Direct]

Emory University (up to a full ride*) [Direct]

Fordham University ($1k-$12.5k, $15k, full tuition) [Direct]

Gonzaga University ($1k-$23k) [Direct]

High Point University ($5k-$20k) [Direct]

John Carroll University (up to $27k) [Direct]

Loyola Marymount University (up to $30k) [Direct]

Loyola University New Orleans ($14k-$23k) [Direct]

Marquette University ($10k-$18k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of Miami (up to $28k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Northeastern University ($10k-$30k) [Direct]

University of Notre Dame ($15k, $25k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of the Pacific ($15k) [Direct]

Pepperdine University ($30k, $36k) [Direct]

University of Portland ($8k-$15k) [Direct]

University of Redlands (up to $32k) [Direct]

Rice University ($15k, $25k) [Direct]

University of Rochester ($2k-full tuition) [Direct]

Samford University ($1k-$17k) [Direct]

University of San Francisco (up to $25k) [Direct]

Santa Clara University ($6k-$18k) [Direct]

University of Southern California ($2k-¼ tuition, half tuition*, full tuition*) [Direct]

Stetson University ($22k-$31k) [Direct]

St. Louis University ($8k-$23k) [Direct]

Syracuse University (partial tuition, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of Tampa (up to $11k) [Direct]

Texas Christian University ($12k-$25k + $4k college-based scholarship, full tuition*) [Direct]

Tulane University (up to $32k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of Tulsa ($2k-$22k) [Direct]

Valparaiso University ($5k-$30k) [Direct]

Vanderbilt University (full tuition*) [Direct]

Villanova University (full ride*) [Direct]

Wake Forest University (full ride*) [Direct]

Washington University in St. Louis ($3k*, half tuition*, full tuition*) [Direct]

Xavier University ($5k-$20k) [Direct]



Public universities
University of Alabama ($6k-full tuition + $2.5k for engineering students, full ride*) [Direct]

University of Arizona ($1k-$10k) [Direct]

Arizona State University ($3k-$15.5k) [Direct]

University of Arkansas ($2k-$8k) [Direct]

Auburn University ($5.5k-$16.5k) [Direct]

Boise State University ($8k-$17k) [Direct]

University of California Riverside (up to $13.5k) [Direct]

University of California Santa Cruz ($3k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Colorado Boulder ($6.25k-$13.75k + $3k humanities) [Direct]

University of Delaware ($5k-$18k) (Direct cost = $50k]

University of Florida ($8k-$20k) [Direct]

Florida State University ($14.5k-$17k, $20k*) [Direct]

University of Georgia ($9.5k-$24k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Georgia Tech (full ride*) [Direct]

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (small departmental scholarships) [Direct]

Indiana University Bloomington ($1k-$11k, full ride*) [Direct]

University of Iowa ($500-$10k) [Direct]

Iowa State University ($2k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Kansas ($3k-$9k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of Kentucky ($8k-$12.5k, $3k*-$16k*) [Direct]

Louisiana State University (up to $21k) [Direct]

University of Maine ($5k-$15k) [Direct]

University of Michigan Ann Arbor ($20k*, $25k-$30k*, full ride*) [Direct]

Michigan State University (up to $25k) [Direct]

University of Minnesota Twin Cities ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

University of Mississippi ($3.5k-full tuition) [Direct]

University of Missouri ($5k-$16k) [Direct]

University of Nebraska Lincoln (up to $15k) [Direct]

University of New Hampshire ($4k-$12k) [Direct]

University of New Mexico ($15k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (full ride*) [Direct]

The Ohio State University (small departmental scholarships*) [Direct]

University of Oklahoma ($7k-$14k) [Direct]

Oklahoma State University ($4k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Oregon ($1k-$5k, $7.5k-$15k, up to $20k*, up to $30k(need-based component)*) [Direct]

Oregon State University ($3k-$6k) [Direct]

University of Pittsburgh ($2k) [Direct]

Purdue University ($10k-$16k) [Direct]

University of Rhode Island ($1.5k-$15k, full ride*) [Direct]

Rutgers University New Brunswick ($2k-$10k) [Direct]

University of South Carolina (up to $29k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Temple University ($2k-full tuition) [Direct]

University of Tennessee Knoxville ($10k-$18k, full ride*) [Direct]

Texas A&M University College Station ($2.5k-$5k) [Direct]

University of Vermont ($8k-$20k) [Direct]

University of Virginia (full ride*) [Direct]

Virginia Tech (small departmental scholarships*) [Direct]

Washington State University ($2k-$4k) [Direct]

West Virginia University ($3k-$16k) [Direct]

University of Wisconsin Madison (small departmental scholarships*) [Direct]

University of Wyoming ($4k-$7k) [Direct]



Institutions that do not offer need-based financial aid or merit scholarships to international students:

Boston College [Direct]

University of California Berkeley [Direct]

UCLA [Direct]

University of California Davis [Direct]

University of California Irvine [Direct]

University of California Merced [Direct]

University of California San Diego [Direct]

University of California Santa Barbara [Direct]

Carnegie Mellon University [Direct]

Clemson University [Direct]

Colorado School of Mines [Direct]

University of Maryland College Park [Direct]

University of Texas Austin [Direct]

University of Utah [Direct]

University of Washington Seattle [Direct]

The College of William and Mary [Direct]



A note on New York University (NYU):
NYU appears to be an incredibly popular US uni here on TSR so I thought I’d comment on it at the bottom. NYU’s direct cost is $76k (more if you are applying to Stern, the business school, or Tisch, the school of the arts); they do offer need-based financial aid to international students, however, they do not meet 100% of demonstrated need. That means that, for example, if your financial aid application demonstrates that your family can only afford $26k a year towards NYU, they do not promise, or even suggest that it is likely, that they will offer $50k in need-based financial aid. What percentage of your need is met is based on merit: i.e. how much they want you.
For more details please check out the first post on this thread which does a great deal of explaining how financial aid at NYU works: https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/parents-and-students-concerned-with-financial-aid-please-read/1079773



Please remember that I am a fallible human being who is subject to human error, so please double-check financial information before applying to a school. Information may also change year to year.

This list is by no means exhaustive; if anyone has any other names of schools and/or further information to add, please do so!


this is such a great resource! thank you so much for compiling it!!!!
may i ask which university you are off to? or why you chose it?
Reply 15
Original post by el474
this is such a great resource! thank you so much for compiling it!!!!
may i ask which university you are off to? or why you chose it?

Glad it helped!

And I'm off to Baylor University which I'm just ecstatic about.

I decided to apply to Baylor because it's world class for my major (Religion) and as my current plan is to become a professor, departmental strength was much more important to me than overall reputation, because of its size (it had the school spirit and traditions of a large school whilst still having the faculty interaction of a smaller school), because students could be part of a residential college system which kind of gave it a home-away-from-home feel with faculty-in-residence and family-style dinners on Sunday and stuff, and because is a Christian university - I just loved the idea of being part of a caring community of people who share my values.
But the main reason I ended up choosing it was because I was blessed to be designated a University Scholar, which is basically this honors program made up of the top 2% of the incoming class where we get to design our own program of study and are exempt from all the general education requirements so I really get to completely study what I'm passionate about. Alongside that, we also do a 2 year senior thesis with 1on1 faculty mentorship and complete an independent reading list and do a doctoral-style exit interview, so it's fab preparation for a PhD program.
Sorry - you definitely didn't ask for all that - I'm just really excited, haha.
Original post by kamara41
Since I've come to the end of my US college admissions journey now, I thought I'd share the list I put together of US colleges that offer need-based financial aid and merit scholarships to international students, as well as a few of the schools that don't, in the hopes that it might help anyone looking into applying to US unis.

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. For more information, check out the thread on need-based financial aid: https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2160183

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
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
Caltech
Case Western Reserve University
University of Chicago
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
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
None


Colleges that offer merit scholarships to international students:

The symbol * denotes a merit scholarship that requires a separate application and/or a scholarship that requires an interview as part of the selection process. Whilst any kind of merit scholarship will be competitive, with the majority of the time just how competitive depending on the overall selectivity of the school, scholarships with a separate application process and/or interview stage will be, as one can probably guess, mostly extremely extremely competitive.

The direct cost is the total amount of tuition, room, board, and any required fees. Optional fees (such as parking passes), transportation, miscellaneous costs (such as toiletries), and health insurance are not included as these costs can often vary person to person and can be tailored to an individual’s budget (though at some schools, health insurance is a set cost).

A full ride scholarship is a scholarship that covers the entire direct cost of a college: tuition, fees, room, and board. Some full ride scholarships may include stipends for things like study abroad, research and/or a stipend for miscellaneous living costs - it varies school to school.
As the name would suggest, a full tuition scholarship is a scholarship that covers the entire cost of tuition; living expenses (including room and board and other indirect costs such as transport) are not included.


Liberal arts colleges
Agnes Scott College (up to $25k, full ride*) [Direct]

Beloit College ($32k) [Direct]

Centre College ($7.5k-$29k) [Direct]

Connecticut College ($15k-$32k) [Direct]

Davidson College ($20k, full ride*) [Direct]

Denison University ($5k-full tuition) [Direct]

DePauw University ($24k-$40k) [Direct]

Earlham College ($20k-$30k) [Direct]

Eckerd College (up to $22k) [Direct]

Furman University (up to $35k, half tuition*) [Direct]

Grinnell College (up to half tuition) [Direct]

Harvey Mudd College ($10k, $10k(must gave participated in either VEX Robotics or FIRST Robotics)*) [Direct]

Hendrix College ($15k upwards, full ride*) [Direct]

Kalamazoo College ($20k-$34k, full tuition*) [Direct]

Kenyon College ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

Knox College (up to $34k) [Direct]

Lawrence University ($20k-$31k) [Direct]

Lewis and Clark College (up to full tuition) [Direct]

Macalester College (up to $16k) [Direct]

Millsaps College ($20k-$30k) [Direct]

Mount Holyoke College (up to full tuition) [Direct]

Occidental College ($10k-$30k) [Direct]

Providence College ($20k-$30k) [Direct]

Rhodes College ($27k-$35k) [Direct]

University of Richmond (⅓ tuition, full ride*) [Direct]

Rollins College ($10k-full tuition) [Direct]

Scripps College ($15k-$28k) [Direct]

Sewanee: University of the South ($5k-$26k, $30k, full tuition, full ride) [Direct]

Smith College ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

St. John’s College ($2k-full tuition) [Direct]

St. Olaf College (up to $35k) [Direct]

Trinity College ($5k-$27k) [Direct]

Union College ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

Washington and Lee University (full ride*) [Direct]

Whitman College (up to $25k) [Direct]

Whittier College ($1k-$36k) [Direct]

Willamette University (up to $20k) [Direct]

Wofford College ($5k-$20k) [Direct]

College of Wooster ($5k-$30k) [Direct]



Private universities
American University ($8k-$22k) [Direct]

Baylor University ($12k-$23k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Butler University ($15k-$22k) [Direct]

Case Western Reserve University (full tuition*) [Direct]

Chapman University (up to $32k) [Direct]

University of Chicago ($5k for first gen college students) [Direct]

University of Denver ($10k-$27k + $3k if you live on campus) [Direct]

DePaul University ($15k-$24k) [Direct]

Duke University (full ride*) [Direct]

Elon University ($3k) [Direct]

Emory University (up to a full ride*) [Direct]

Fordham University ($1k-$12.5k, $15k, full tuition) [Direct]

Gonzaga University ($1k-$23k) [Direct]

High Point University ($5k-$20k) [Direct]

John Carroll University (up to $27k) [Direct]

Loyola Marymount University (up to $30k) [Direct]

Loyola University New Orleans ($14k-$23k) [Direct]

Marquette University ($10k-$18k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of Miami (up to $28k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Northeastern University ($10k-$30k) [Direct]

University of Notre Dame ($15k, $25k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of the Pacific ($15k) [Direct]

Pepperdine University ($30k, $36k) [Direct]

University of Portland ($8k-$15k) [Direct]

University of Redlands (up to $32k) [Direct]

Rice University ($15k, $25k) [Direct]

University of Rochester ($2k-full tuition) [Direct]

Samford University ($1k-$17k) [Direct]

University of San Francisco (up to $25k) [Direct]

Santa Clara University ($6k-$18k) [Direct]

University of Southern California ($2k-¼ tuition, half tuition*, full tuition*) [Direct]

Stetson University ($22k-$31k) [Direct]

St. Louis University ($8k-$23k) [Direct]

Syracuse University (partial tuition, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of Tampa (up to $11k) [Direct]

Texas Christian University ($12k-$25k + $4k college-based scholarship, full tuition*) [Direct]

Tulane University (up to $32k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of Tulsa ($2k-$22k) [Direct]

Valparaiso University ($5k-$30k) [Direct]

Vanderbilt University (full tuition*) [Direct]

Villanova University (full ride*) [Direct]

Wake Forest University (full ride*) [Direct]

Washington University in St. Louis ($3k*, half tuition*, full tuition*) [Direct]

Xavier University ($5k-$20k) [Direct]



Public universities
University of Alabama ($6k-full tuition + $2.5k for engineering students, full ride*) [Direct]

University of Alaska Fairbanks ($1k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Arizona ($1k-$10k) [Direct]

Arizona State University ($3k-$15.5k) [Direct]

University of Arkansas ($2k-$8k) [Direct]

Auburn University ($5.5k-$16.5k) [Direct]

Boise State University ($8k-$17k) [Direct]

University of California Riverside (up to $13.5k) [Direct]

University of California Santa Cruz ($3k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Colorado Boulder ($6.25k-$13.75k + $3k humanities) [Direct]

University of Delaware ($5k-$18k) (Direct cost = $50k]

University of Florida ($8k-$20k) [Direct]

Florida State University ($14.5k-$17k, $20k*) [Direct]

University of Georgia ($9.5k-$24k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Georgia Tech (full ride*) [Direct]

University of Hawai'i Manoa (10k-22k*) [Direct]

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (small departmental scholarships) [Direct]

Indiana University Bloomington ($1k-$11k, full ride*) [Direct]

University of Iowa ($500-$10k) [Direct]

Iowa State University ($2k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Kansas ($3k-$9k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of Kentucky ($8k-$12.5k, $3k*-$16k*) [Direct]

Louisiana State University (up to $21k) [Direct]

University of Maine ($5k-$15k) [Direct]

University of Michigan Ann Arbor ($20k*, $25k-$30k*, full ride*) [Direct]

Michigan State University (up to $25k) [Direct]

University of Minnesota Twin Cities ($10k-$25k) [Direct]

University of Mississippi ($3.5k-full tuition) [Direct]

University of Missouri ($5k-$16k) [Direct]

University of Nebraska Lincoln (up to $15k) [Direct]

University of New Hampshire ($4k-$12k) [Direct]

University of New Mexico ($15k, full tuition*) [Direct]

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (full ride*) [Direct]

The Ohio State University (small departmental scholarships*) [Direct]

University of Oklahoma ($7k-$14k) [Direct]

Oklahoma State University ($4k-$10k) [Direct]

University of Oregon ($1k-$5k, $7.5k-$15k, up to $20k*, up to $30k(need-based component)*) [Direct]

Oregon State University ($3k-$6k) [Direct]

University of Pittsburgh ($2k) [Direct]

Purdue University ($10k-$16k) [Direct]

University of Rhode Island ($1.5k-$15k, full ride*) [Direct]

Rutgers University New Brunswick ($2k-$10k) [Direct]

University of South Carolina (up to $29k, full tuition*, full ride*) [Direct]

Temple University ($2k-full tuition) [Direct]

University of Tennessee Knoxville ($10k-$18k, full ride*) [Direct]

Texas A&M University College Station ($2.5k-$5k) [Direct]

University of Vermont ($8k-$20k) [Direct]

University of Virginia (full ride*) [Direct]

Virginia Tech (small departmental scholarships*) [Direct]

Washington State University ($2k-$4k) [Direct]

West Virginia University ($3k-$16k) [Direct]

University of Wisconsin Madison (small departmental scholarships*) [Direct]

University of Wyoming ($4k-$7k) [Direct]



Institutions that do not offer need-based financial aid or merit scholarships to international students:

Boston College [Direct]

University of California Berkeley [Direct]

UCLA [Direct]

University of California Davis [Direct]

University of California Irvine [Direct]

University of California Merced [Direct]

University of California San Diego [Direct]

University of California Santa Barbara [Direct]

Carnegie Mellon University [Direct]

Clemson University [Direct]

Colorado School of Mines [Direct]

University of Maryland College Park [Direct]

University of Texas Austin [Direct]

University of Utah [Direct]

University of Washington Seattle [Direct]

The College of William and Mary [Direct]



A note on New York University (NYU):
NYU appears to be an incredibly popular US uni here on TSR so I thought I’d comment on it at the bottom. NYU’s direct cost is $76k (more if you are applying to Stern, the business school, or Tisch, the school of the arts); they do offer need-based financial aid to international students, however, they do not meet 100% of demonstrated need. That means that, for example, if your financial aid application demonstrates that your family can only afford $26k a year towards NYU, they do not promise, or even suggest that it is likely, that they will offer $50k in need-based financial aid. What percentage of your need is met is based on merit: i.e. how much they want you.
For more details please check out the first post on this thread which does a great deal of explaining how financial aid at NYU works: https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/parents-and-students-concerned-with-financial-aid-please-read/1079773



Please remember that I am a fallible human being who is subject to human error, so please double-check financial information before applying to a school. Information may also change year to year.

This list is by no means exhaustive; if anyone has any other names of schools and/or further information to add, please do so!

Hiya , tysm for this list , it’s honestly helped me incredibly . I was just wondering how the US application went for you and if you got any offers back ?!
Another note for you to maybe update the post with @kamara41

As of this year, Dartmouth is now officially need-blind for international students!
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Another note for you to maybe update the post with @kamara41

As of this year, Dartmouth is now officially need-blind for international students!

Oh, wow! That's great news! I'll go and edit it right now - thank you so much for updating us all!
We can add Bowdoin to the need-blind list @kamara41

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