Schools Ranked by Institution Financial Aid Rate

Financial aid is a top priority for most prospective college students. The higher the percentage of students who receive financial aid directly from the school, the more desirable the college should be to attend. This data refers to the percentage of undergraduate students receiving financial aid for the 2010-11 academic year directly from the institution they attend. The financial aid figures are provided by the College Navigator database from the U.S. Department of Education.

College Navigator did not have financial aid figures for all of the colleges on our list. We did not, however, want to penalize those colleges without data. To that end, we simply excluded those schools from the rankings in this category.

Rank School FT to PT
Faculty Ratio		 Institution
Fin. Aid Rate		 Acceptance Rate Retention Rate Graduation Rate Accred.
Years		 Default
Rate		 Job Place. Rate  
760 Pinellas Technical Education Center-Clearwater 0.94 to 1 0% N/A 73% 97% 42 0% N/A  
760 Potomac College-Washington 0.12 to 1 0% N/A N/A 20% 18 20% N/A  
760 Ridgewater College 1.17 to 1 0% N/A 65% 37% 16 12% N/A  
760 Saddleback College 0.35 to 1 0% N/A 76% 35% 41 15% N/A  
760 San Joaquin Valley College-Online 0.48 to 1 0% N/A 41% 39% N/A 18% N/A  
760 Schiller International University 0.36 to 1 0% N/A 17% 40% 29 8% N/A  
760 Stratford University 0.10 to 1 0% N/A 61% 51% 10 19% N/A  
760 Trident University International 0.17 to 1 0% N/A 19% 72% 7 3% N/A  
760 Trine University-Fort Wayne Regional Campus to 1 0% 64% 50% N/A 18 10% N/A  
760 University of Antelope Valley 1.07 to 1 0% N/A 70% 73% 11 31% N/A  
760 West Los Angeles College 0.33 to 1 0% N/A 61% 12% 41 16% N/A  
760 Western New Mexico University 0.47 to 1 0% N/A 50% 18% 86 18% N/A  

Methodology

For each college, we gathered data for nine different metrics: the number of full-time faculty per part-time faculty member; institutional financial aid, acceptance, retention, graduation, job placement, and default rates; years accredited; and undergraduate tuition. Learn more