Fiske Guide to Colleges 2013, 29E

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Edward B. FiskE
former Education Editor of
the New York Times
with Shawn Logue
and
the Fiske Guide to Colleges staff
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Contents
Index by State and Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Index by Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xii
The Best Buys of 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xv
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
Fiske Guide to Colleges—And How to Use It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
What Is the Fiske Guide to Colleges? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
How the Colleges Were Selected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xvii
How the Fiske Guide Was Compiled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xvii
The Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xviii
Best Buys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xviii
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xviii
SAT and ACT Scores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Scholarship Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xx
Ratings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xx
Overlaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
If You Apply To . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxii
Consortia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxii
Moving Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxii
Sizing Yourself Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
Develop Your Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiv
Keep an Open Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxv
Fiske’s Sizing-Yourself-Up Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxv
A Guide for Preprofessionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
Art/Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxx
Communications/Journalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi
Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi
Film/Television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxxii
Performing Arts—Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxxii
Performing Arts—Drama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxxii
Performing Arts—Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxxii
Environmental Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiii
International Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiii
Learning Disabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiv
SAT and ACT Optional Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxxv
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Consortia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .795
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .799
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .802
About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .804
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Index by State and Country
The colleges in this guide are listed alphabetically and cross-referenced for your convenience. Below is a list of
the selected colleges grouped by state. Following this listing, you will find a second listing in which the colleges
are categorized by the yearly cost of attending each school.
ALABAmA COLOrADO Morehouse College, 32
University of Alabama, 5 University of Colorado–Boulder, 163 Oglethorpe University, 510
Auburn University, 38 Colorado College, 166 Spelman College, 34
Birmingham–Southern College, 62 Colorado School of Mines, 168
Colorado State University, 170 hAwAII
ArIzOnA University of Denver, 208 University of Hawaii–Manoa, 307
University of Arizona, 24
Arizona State University, 26 COnnECTICUT IDAhO
Prescott College, 545 University of Connecticut, 176 College of Idaho, 332
Connecticut College, 178
ArkAnSAS Fairfield University, 245 ILLInOIS
University of Arkansas, 29 Quinnipiac University, 561 University of Chicago, 134
Hendrix College, 309 Trinity College, 694 DePaul University, 211
Wesleyan University, 753 University of Illinois at Urbana–
CALIfOrnIA Yale University, 789 Champaign, 335
UC–Berkeley, 91 Illinois Institute of Technology, 337
UC–Davis, 94 DELAwArE Illinois Wesleyan University, 340
UC–Irvine, 96 University of Delaware, 203 Knox College, 391
UC–Los Angeles, 99 Lake Forest College, 396
UC–Riverside, 101 DISTrICT Of COLUmBIA Northwestern University, 499
UC–San Diego, 103 (wAShInGTOn, D .C .) Principia College, 552
UC–Santa Barbara, 106 American University, 19 Wheaton College, 758
UC–Santa Cruz, 108 Catholic University of America, 124
California Institute of Technology, 111 George Washington University, 266 InDIAnA
Chapman University, 129 Georgetown University, 268 Butler University, 86
Claremont McKenna College, 140 Howard University, 330 DePauw University, 213
Deep Springs College, 201 Earlham College, 227
Harvey Mudd College, 142 fLOrIDA Indiana University, 342
Loyola Marymount University, 408 Eckerd College, 230 University of Notre Dame, 502
Mills College, 449 University of Florida, 247 Purdue University, 559
Occidental College, 508 Florida Institute of Technology, 250 Rose–Hulman Institute of
University of the Pacific, 530 Florida Southern College, 252 Technology, 595
Pepperdine University, 538 Florida State University, 255 Wabash College, 731
Pitzer College, 144 University of Miami, 437
Pomona College, 146 New College of Florida, 470 IOwA
University of Redlands, 566 Rollins College, 593 Cornell College, 184
University of San Diego, 617 Stetson University, 665 Grinnell College, 283
University of San Francisco, 619 University of Iowa, 366
Santa Clara University, 621 GEOrGIA Iowa State University, 368
Scripps College, 149 Agnes Scott College, 3
University of Southern California, 638 Emory University, 237 kAnSAS
Stanford University, 645 University of Georgia, 271 University of Kansas, 383
Whittier College, 766 Georgia Institute of Technology, 273
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kEnTUCkY Wheaton College, 761 nEw mExICO
Centre College, 126 Williams College, 773 University of New Mexico, 479
University of Kentucky, 386 Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 785 New Mexico Institute of Mining and
Technology, 481
LOUISIAnA mIChIGAn St. John’s College, 602
Louisiana State University, 406 Albion College, 8
Loyola University New Orleans, 411 Alma College, 15 nEw YOrk
Tulane University, 704 Calvin College, 113 Adelphi University, 1
Xavier University of Louisiana, 787 Hope College, 326 Alfred University, 10
Kalamazoo College, 381 Bard College, 45
mAInE University of Michigan, 441 Barnard College, 47
College of the Atlantic, 36 Michigan State University, 444 Clarkson University, 154
Bates College, 50 Colgate University, 160
Bowdoin College, 69 mInnESOTA Columbia University, 173
Colby College, 158 Carleton College, 116 Cooper Union, 181
University of Maine–Orono, 415 Gustavus Adolphus College, 288 Cornell University, 186
Macalester College, 413 Eugene Lang College–The New School
mArYLAnD University of Minnesota, 453 for Liberal Arts, 240
Goucher College, 280 University of Minnesota Morris, 456 Fordham University, 257
Hood College, 324 College of St. Benedict and St. John’s Hamilton College, 291
Johns Hopkins University, 375 University, 600 Hartwick College, 298
University of Maryland, 426 St. Olaf College, 614 Hobart and William Smith Colleges,
University of Maryland Baltimore 314
County, 429 mISSISSIPPI Hofstra University, 316
St. John’s College, 602 Millsaps College, 451 Houghton College, 328
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 609 University of Mississippi, 458 Ithaca College, 370
Manhattanville College, 417
mASSAChUSETTS mISSOUrI New York University, 484
Amherst College, 21 University of Missouri, 460 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 571
Babson College, 42 Saint Louis University, 607 University of Rochester, 588
Bentley University, 60 Truman State University, 699 Rochester Institute of Technology,
Boston College, 64 Washington University in St. Louis, 591
Boston University, 67 745 St. Lawrence University, 605
Brandeis University, 72 Sarah Lawrence College, 623
Clark University, 151 nEBrASkA Skidmore College, 628
Emerson College, 235 University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 468 SUNY–University at Albany, 650
Gordon College, 278 SUNY–Binghamton University, 652
Hampshire College, 295 nEw hAmPShIrE SUNY–University at Buffalo, 655
Harvard University, 301 Dartmouth College, 192 SUNY–College at Geneseo, 658
College of the Holy Cross, 321 University of New Hampshire, 473 SUNY–Purchase College, 660
University of Massachusetts–Amherst, SUNY–Stony Brook University, 662
431 nEw JErSEY Syracuse University, 677
Massachusetts Institute of Drew University, 218 Union College, 709
Technology, 433 College of New Jersey, 475 Vassar College, 718
Mount Holyoke College, 463 New Jersey Institute of Technology, Wells College, 751
Northeastern University, 497 477
Olin College of Engineering, 522 Princeton University, 548 nOrTh CArOLInA
Smith College, 630 Rutgers–The State University of New Davidson College, 196
Tufts University, 701 Jersey, 597 Duke University, 223
Wellesley College, 748 Stevens Institute of Technology, 667 Elon University, 232
Guilford College, 285
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