Amherst College
Amherst, MA
- Undergrads
- 1,911
- Admit rate
- 9%
- Net price
- $23.4k
- Grad rate
- 94%
- Specialty: Social Sciences 20%
- Specialty: Biology 12%
- Specialty: Computer Science 11%
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA 19081Suburb: LargeUNITID 216287
Private nonprofit 4-yearBaccalaureate Colleges: Arts & Sciences FocusSpecialty: Social Sciences 25%Specialty: Computer Science 11%Specialty: Biology 11%
Undergraduates
1,613
Graduate students
Not reported
Admit rate
7%
Average net price
$23.1k
Graduation rate
92%
Retention rate
94%
Median earnings (10 yr)
$80.3k
Median debt
$17.5k
Student : faculty
7:1
Value score*
67th pct.
Programs offered
69
Highest degree
Bachelor's degree
- Sector
- Private nonprofit 4-year
- Region
- Northeast · Middle Atlantic
- Setting
- Suburb: Large (outside principal city, in urbanized area with population of 250,000 or more)
- Carnegie
- Baccalaureate Colleges: Arts & Sciences Focus
- Size & setting
- Four-year, small, highly residential
- Predominant degree
- Predominantly bachelor's-degree granting
- Religious affiliation
- None reported
- Main campus
- Yes
* Value score is a CampusAtlas estimate, not an official metric.
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- 8%
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- 2,407
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Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, data as of June 10, 2026. “Not reported” means the value is missing or privacy-suppressed in the source data.