It is difficult to assess what makes a school "excellent", just as it is to predict what might attract Hispanic students to a university and what might help them succeed in college. We know that when looking at college rankings, numbers don't tell the whole story, and that the interests and needs of any kind of student involve personal preferences as much as they involve cultural elements. Once again this year we have looked at colleges and universities with strong national reputations in order to find the best colleges for Hispanic students. Our aim was to find the schools that, in addition to sustaining a tradition of excellence, offer support and resources for groups underrepresented in higher education, Hispanics in particular. To determine the colleges included in the list, we examined such factors as Hispanic student enrollment, graduation rates, financial aid resources, student-to-faculty ratios, acceptance rates, number of Hispanic faculty and more.