Are you an international student looking to study in the U.S. – and do you need financial aid? We’ve done the work for you. Listed below are schools that offer generous aid to international students.

Full-Tuition Merit Scholarships

• Carleton College—Northfield, Minnesota
• Rice University—Houston, Texas
• University of Miami—Coral Gables, Florida
• Washington and Lee University—Lexington, Virginia

Need-Blind Schools (Meeting 100 Percent of Demonstrated Need)

These schools don’t consider your ability to pay as a factor in your admissions decision. Once you are accepted, they will cover your full need, whether that’s a partial scholarship or full tuition.

• Harvard University—Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Yale University—New Haven, Connecticut
• Princeton University—Princeton, New Jersey
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Dartmouth College—Hanover, New Hampshire
• Amherst College—Northampton, Massachusetts

Other Schools

Most of these schools will take your ability to pay into account in the admissions process, but once accepted, these schools generally offer highly qualified applicants generous aid packages ranging from partial to full scholarship grants.

• Bard College—Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
• Bates College—Lewiston, Maine
• Beloit College—Beloit, Wisconsin
• Bennington College—Bennington, Vermont
• Brown University—Providence, Rhode Island
• Bryn Mawr College—Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
• California Institute of Technology—Pasadena, California
• Clark University—Worcester, Massachusetts
• Colby College—Waterville, Maine
• Colgate College—Hamilton, New York
• College of the Atlantic—Bar Harbor, Maine
• Colorado College—Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Connecticut College—New London, Connecticut
• Denison University—Granville, Ohio
• DePauw University—Greencastle, Indiana
• Dickinson College—Carlisle, Pennsylvania
• Franklin and Marshall College—Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• Grinnell College—Grinnell, Iowa
• Hamilton College—Clinton, New York
• Hampshire College—Amherst, Massachusetts
• Hendrix College—Conway, Arkansas
• Illinois Institute of Technology—Chicago, Illinois
• Kenyon College—Gambier, Ohio
• Knox College—Galesburg, Illinois
• Lafayette College—Easton, Pennsylvania
• Lawrence University—Appleton, Wisconsin
• Macalester College—St. Paul, MN
• Middlebury College—Middlebury, Vermont
• Mount Holyoke College—South Hadley, Massachusetts
• Oberlin College—Oberlin, Ohio
• Ohio Wesleyan University—Delaware, Ohio
• Reed College—Portland, Oregon
• Sarah Lawrence College—Bronxville, New York
• Skidmore College—Saratoga Springs, New York
• Smith College—Northampton, Massachusetts
• Soka University of America—Aliso Viego, California
• St. John’s College—Annapolis, Maryland
• St. Lawrence University—Canton, New York
• St. Olaf College—Northfield, Minnesota
• Stanford University—Stanford, California
• Swarthmore College—Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
• Trinity College—Hartford, Connecticut
• Union College—Schenectady, New York
• University of Pennsylvania—Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• University of Richmond—Richmond, Virginia
• University of Rochester—Rochester, New York
• University of Southern California—Los Angeles, California
• Vassar College—Poughkeepsie, New York
• Wabash College—Crawfordsville, Indiana
• Wellesley College—Wellesley, Massachusetts
• Wesleyan University—Middleton, Connecticut
• Wheaton College (MA)—Norton, Massachusetts
• Williams College—Williamstown, Massachusetts
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute—Worcester, Massachusetts
• Yeshiva University—New York, New York

Hopefully, this list provides you with a good place to start in your college search. Good luck!