Over 400 schools use the CSS Profile to determine their financial aid offers to prospective students. The CSS Profile is an application for institutional aid required by about 300 colleges, universities, and scholarship organizations. The following consolidated list constitutes both public and private educational institutions, all colleges that require the CSS Profile:

• American University
• Amherst College
• Bard College
• Bates College
• Baylor University
• Bennington College
• Bentley University
• Berklee College of Music
• Boston College
• Boston University
• Bowdoin College
• Brandeis University
• Brown University
• Bryn Mawr College
• Bucknell University
• California Institute of Technology
• Carleton College
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Case Western Reserve University
• Chapman University
• Claremont McKenna College
• Clark University
• Clarkson University
• Clemson University
• Colby College
• Colgate University
• College of the Holy Cross
• College of William and Mary
• Colorado College
• Columbia University
• Connecticut College
• Cornell University
• Dartmouth College
• Davidson College
• Denison University
• DePauw University
• Dickinson College
• Duke University
• Duquesne University
• Emerson College
• Emory University
• Fairfield University
• Fordham University
• Franklin & Marshall College
• Furman University
• George Washington University
• Georgetown University
• Gettysburg College
• Gonzaga University
• Grinnell College
• Hamilton College
• Hampshire College
• Harvey Mudd College
• Haverford College
• High Point University
• Hobart and William Smith Colleges
• Hofstra University
• Howard University
• Illinois Wesleyan University
• Indiana University Bloomington
• Ithaca College
• James Madison University
• Johns Hopkins University
• Kenyon College
• Lafayette College
• Lehigh University
• Lewis & Clark College
• Loyola Marymount University
• Loyola University Chicago
• Loyola University Maryland
• Macalester College
• Marist College
• Marquette University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Miami University-Oxford
• Michigan State University
• Middlebury College
• Mills College
• Mount Holyoke College
• Muhlenberg College
• New York University
• Northeastern University
• Northwestern University
• Oberlin College
• Occidental College
• Ohio State University
• Ohio Wesleyan University
• Oregon State University
• Pitzer College
• Pomona College
• Princeton University
• Providence College
• Purdue University
• Quinnipiac University
• Reed College
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Rhodes College
• Rice University
• Rochester Institute of Technology
• Roger Williams University
• Rollins College
• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Rutgers University-New Brunswick
• Saint Anselm College
• Saint Louis University
• Saint Marys College
• Santa Clara University
• Sarah Lawrence College
• Scripps College
• Seattle University
• Seton Hall University
• Sewanee: The University of the South
• Skidmore College
• Smith College
• Southern Methodist University
• Spelman College
• St. Johns College
• St. Lawrence University
• Stanford University
• State University of New York at Geneseo
• State University of New York at New Paltz
• State University of New York at Oswego
• State University of New York at Stony Brook
• Stevens Institute of Technology
• Swarthmore College
• Syracuse University
• Texas Christian University
• The College of New Jersey
• The College of Wooster
• The George Washington University
• The New School
• The University of Alabama
• The University of Arizona
• The University of Iowa
• The University of Montana
• The University of North Carolin...