50,175
Highest merit based scholarship at Villanova, a full ride, for the 2008-2009 year. Villanova is ranked No. 1 in the U.S. News and World Report for Universities with Masters in the North, ahead of No. 2 Fairfield.
49,725
Cost of attending Fairfield for the 2008-2009 year
44,900
Cost of attending Quinnipiac for the 2008-2009 academic year. Quinnipiac recently moved ahead of Fairfield in Barron’s College Rankings.
15,000
Highest merit based scholarship available at Fairfield.
1989
Year of an article in The New York Times profiling Fairfield which cites Barron’s Profiles of American Colleges. Fairfield was ‘highly competitive.’ It fell to ‘very competitive’ this year.’
1,170
The class of 2011’s average SAT score, 30 points lower than the 2008 average of 1,200.
2
Jesuit colleges younger than Fairfield. Le Moyne (1946) and Wheeling (1954) are younger than Fairfield (1942).
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