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Families with household incomes of $75,000 or less, with typical assets, can expect to pay nothing \u2026 While families may still choose to borrow as part of their own financial planning, BU Promise no longer includes loans as part of meeting demonstrated financial need. \u2026 BU Promise builds on the University's longstanding commitment to meeting 100 percent of demonstrated financial need while making financial aid easier to understand and more predictable.","source_url":"https://www.bu.edu/articles/2026/new-financial-aid-program-covers-tuition-for-certain-families/","verified":true},"at_a_glance":["Boston University is a private nonprofit four-year college in MA. It admitted 11% of applicants (80,495 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.","Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 1400\u20131520, ACT 32\u201334. 28% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, 10% an ACT \u2014 these ranges describe students who submitted, not the whole class. Average enrolled GPA 3.9 (unweighted, 2024-25, as published by the college).","Cost: about $24,402 a year on average with aid, $86,285 a year at full price.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $83,238 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $734,772 ahead with aid, $487,240 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Computer Science ($136,667); Computer Engineering ($135,394); Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other ($110,622).","Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 4% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 50% of those reached the top fifth as adults.","Aid pledge published by the college for 2026-27: families earning under $75,000 pay nothing; families earning under $200,000 pay no tuition; aid packages carry no loans; the college meets full demonstrated need.","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Boston University: 167, 812 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often Punahou School (8.8 per class year, 35 over 4 class years, the past four years (2022 \u2013 2025)); Santa Margarita Catholic High School (7.0 per class year, 7 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); Avenues New York (6.0 per class year, 6 over 1 class year, CLASSES OF 2023\u20132026, counted column \"CLASS OF 2026\"). Each figure is the number that school printed divided by the class years its own list covers; the totals and years are shown. These are the schools that publish such a list, not every school that sends students; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/boston-university.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Boston University: 15, 119 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often Archbishop Mitty High School (30.0 per class year, 30 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); Middlesex School (8.0 per class year, 8 over 1 class year, Class of 2026, counted column \"accepted\"); St Andrews School Of Boca Raton Inc (6.0 per class year, 6 over 1 class year, Class of 2026). Admits are counted at each college, so this counts admissions, not students. These are a different set of documents from the matriculation lists above and the two are never added together; full list: https://highschoolreach.com/leaderboards/feeder-schools/boston-university.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/boston-university.json"],"caveats":["Admit rate, SAT/ACT bands and applicant counts are IPEDS (federal); admit rates by major are the college system's own reporting (UC Information Center; CSU Chancellor's Office).","UC admits to the campus, not the major, at most programs; a UC admit rate by major is a guide to selectivity, not a rule.","'transfer_only' majors at a CSU had no first-year row reported: freshmen enter as a pre-major and apply into the program later.","net_price_with_aid is the average for aid recipients; full_price is the cost of attendance. The federal $110K+ income bracket is never shown because it fits no family.","Earnings are federal College Scorecard medians; they travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college.","Payoff = ten years of median earnings minus four years of cost, in dollars.","SAT/ACT bands describe ENROLLED first-years who submitted that test, not the admitted pool and not the whole class; at a test-optional college check admissions.submit_share before reading a band as the class profile."],"control":"Private nonprofit","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":9500},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":9342},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":11778},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":22517}],"full_price":86285,"in_state_basis":false,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":24402,"npc_url":"https://www.bu.edu/finaid/aid-basics/cost-of-education/net-price-calculator/","tuition_in_state":68102,"tuition_out_of_state":68102},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":83238,"median_6yr_after_entry":65655},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":119,"note":"Counts are copied from each high school's own published, numbered list of college acceptances \u2014 where its graduates were ADMITTED, not where they enrolled. 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