We salute the following 19 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 2025 edition of The Best 390 Colleges.
In alphabetical order, the schools on our 2025 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)
- Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
- Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA)
- Harvard College (Cambridge, MA)
- Haverford College (Haverford, PA)
- Kenyon College (Gambier, OH)
- Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA)
- Pomona College (Claremont, CA)
- Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
- Reed College (Portland, OR)
- Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
- Union College (NY) (Schenectady, NY)
- Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
- Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
- Yale University (New Haven, CT)
