Fairfield University

Fairfield is a Jesuit university on the Connecticut coast, organised around Cura Personalis — care of the whole person — with strong undergraduate business, nursing and engineering offerings. For an international applicant the notable features are financial and procedural rather than academic. All admitted students are automatically considered for merit scholarships with no separate application and regardless of whether they submitted SAT or ACT scores, and Fairfield reports that over 90% of an entering class receives a merit scholarship, need-based aid, or both. Against that, the university requires official institutional score reports for English tests rather than student copies, and mandates health insurance for every full-time undergraduate. Housing is priced by room type across a wide band, from USD 8,230 for a triple to USD 17,830 for a single-occupancy townhouse, so accommodation choice moves the annual cost by nearly USD 10,000.