2006 Freshman Merit Scholars

This table shows the 97 colleges enrolling 20 or more freshman Merit Scholars named in 2006, and the number of freshman Merit Scholars enrolled in those institutions in 2005.

For the fall of 2006, the table shows the total number of Merit Scholarship winners at each institution and the number whose scholarships were paid for by the institution, not by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation or other corporate sponsors. The rankings were determined by The Chronicle from an