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Consortium on Financing Higher Education

The Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE) is an organization of thirty-nine private colleges and universities. Formed in the mid-1970s, COFHE is an unincorporated, voluntary, institutionally-supported organization of 39 highly selective, private liberal arts colleges and universities, all of which are committed to meeting the full demonstrated financial need of admitted students.

The Consortium’s data collection, research, and policy analysis focus on matters pertaining to access, affordability, and assessment, particularly as they relate to undergraduate education, admissions, financial aid, and the financing of higher education. All data supplied to, compiled by, and shared among the Consortium are subject to strict confidentiality guidelines.


The organization's officially stated goals are as follows:


COFHE's home office is located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a Washington office is housed at Johns Hopkins's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in the District of Columbia. The president of COFHE as of November 1, 2018 is Janet Rapelye. From 2002 to October 2018, the president was Kristine Dillon. Preceding her was Katharine Hanson, 1976-2002.

Amherst College

Barnard College

Bowdoin College

Brown University

Bryn Mawr College

California Institute of Technology

Carleton College

Columbia University

Cornell University

Dartmouth College

Duke University

Emory University

Georgetown University

Harvard University

Haverford College

Johns Hopkins University

Macalester College

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Middlebury College

Mount Holyoke College

Northwestern University

Oberlin College

Pomona College

Princeton University

Rice University

Smith College

Stanford University

Swarthmore College

The University of Chicago

Trinity College

University of Pennsylvania

University of Rochester

Vanderbilt University

Vassar College

Washington University in St. Louis

Wellesley College

Wesleyan University

Williams College

Yale University

COFHE president 2002-2018[1]

Kristine Dillon

The official COFHE website