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ℹ️ A note about this profile

Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science doesn't publish standardized-test bands or admit-rate data to IPEDS. That usually means the institution is open-admission (no selectivity gate), graduate-focused, or small enough that the federal survey suppresses the numbers. What we do have below: published tuition, average net price, enrollment, degrees awarded by major. If you had a different, more selective institution in mind, the search at the top of the page will find it.

Parent/student verdict

Selectivity unknown

Comprehensive 4-year institution.

Best for

  • Students focused on Natural Resources & Conservation (the school's signature program)
  • Families wanting a small liberal-arts experience

Verdict is composed from this college's structured data (admit rate, SAT bands, net price with aid and at full price, Carnegie classification, scholarship grids) using transparent rule thresholds — not a chat-bot's opinion.

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Institutional snapshot

What kind of college is this?

Carnegie classification
Baccalaureate Colleges: Diverse Fields
Undergraduates
579
Under 1,000 including graduate students
TuitionThe published full price before any aid. Families who don't qualify for need-based aid at a given college pay this, minus any merit scholarships — whether you qualify depends on the college's price and policies, not on any fixed income line.
$33,009
flat rate (no in/out-of-state split) · 2023–24 federal figure

Source: federal IPEDS Admissions 2023 for scores + admit rate; federal College Scorecard for earnings + outcomes. SAT/ACT bands are the 25th–75th percentile of enrolled submitters.

The real cost

What Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science actually costs

If you qualify for need aidGrant money based on your family's finances (via FAFSA and the college's own forms), not your student's stats.
$26,683/yr
average among aid-receiving families, all incomes — your number depends on your finances
If you don't
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Which side your family lands on isn't set by any national income line — it's set by Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science's own aid decision: the gap between its price and your family's finances.

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Source: College Scorecard (average net price among Title IV first-time, full-time undergraduates who received aid) and each college's published cost of attendance. We don't show the federal net-price-by-income brackets: their categories were fixed in 2008 and never adjusted, and none of the averages is your family's own number — the full story. Payoff = (10-yr median earnings × 10) − (4 years of cost), in dollars — how far ahead a typical graduate runs by year ten; medians travel with the students a college admits and the majors they choose as much as with the college itself. Full price is the published cost of attendance; earnings are 10 years after enrollment, all majors combined.

What students study here

Most popular majors at Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science

Top 5 fields of study by bachelor's degrees awarded (most recent IPEDS Completions). Use this to see what Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science actually graduates — not just what it markets.

1. Natural Resources & Conservation
71 degrees · 60.7%
Forestry, environmental science, conservation work — often public-sector or NGO.
2. Personal & Culinary Services
12 degrees · 10.3%
3. Biological & Biomedical Sciences
12 degrees · 10.3%
Many bio majors → med school / grad school. Direct-employment bio roles are lower-paid than that pipeline.
4. Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies
11 degrees · 9.4%
Often paired with another field (data + biology, design + tech). Outcomes match the second discipline.
5. Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness
11 degrees · 9.4%
Coaching, athletic training, public-sector recreation, fitness industry.

Sources: IPEDS Completions (C2023_a; bachelor's-level first majors, 2-digit CIP family — share is of the top 5 only). Full college-vs-major comparison: /college-outcomes →

Student body & economic mobility

Who attends here — and what the campus adds.

Opportunity Insights data. It measures two things at once: how many lower-income students a college enrols, and how many of them reach the top earnings quintile later. A high rate says the college does both — it does not establish that the campus caused the earnings, because the students it admits differ from the students it doesn't. Read it as a signal about access and destination, not as proof of value added.

Top-1% access
0.2%
from top-1% households
Mobility rateThe share of ALL students who arrived from the bottom 20% of family incomes AND reached the top 20% themselves by their early 30s — access and lift in one number, and a sign the campus itself adds earnings power.
2.0%
bottom 20% → top 20% by age 32
Upward rate
18.3%
of lower-income students who reach the top 20%

Full leaderboards: /college-mobility →

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Feeder high schools

Which high schools send graduates to Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science?

Enrolled — from the schools' matriculation lists

3 high schools publish a numbered matriculation list — where their graduates actually enrolled, counted, in the school's own School Profile — and name Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science on it. Between them they printed 4 enrolled graduates. Ranked by graduates per class year enrolling at Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science, from each school's own published list: the number that school printed, divided by the class years its list covers. The published total and the school's own years label are shown beside every school, so a one-year list and a five-year list can sit on the same page. A list whose class years we cannot read is not divided by a guess — it is listed below with its total instead.

High school · years its list covers Enrolled per class year
Northwood School · Classes of 2021-2025 0.4 · 2 over 5 class years
Archmere Academy · 2022-2026 0.2 · 1 over 5 class years
Vermont Academy · Matriculation List (2021-2026) 0.2 · 1 over 6 class years

Admitted — from the schools' acceptance lists

1 high schools publish a numbered list of college acceptances — where their graduates were admitted, not where they enrolled — and name Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science on it. Between them they printed 1 admissions. Ranked by admissions per class year to Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science, from each school's own published acceptances list: the number that school printed, divided by the class years its list covers. Admits are counted at each college a student was admitted to, the same way the UC Reach Score counts a student admitted to three UC campuses three times — so this is a count of admissions, not of students. The published total and the school's own years label are shown beside every school, and a list whose class years we cannot read is listed below with its total rather than divided by a guess.

High school · years its list covers Admitted per class year
Lake Tahoe Prepatory School · 2025 1.0 · 1 over 1 class year

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Counted from each school's own published document, linked on that school's page. A high school that is not here does not publish a numbered list we could read — that is all absence means, and it says nothing about its graduates. Where a school publishes both, the two lists are shown separately: an acceptances list is not a list of enrollments, and the two are never added together.

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At a glance

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Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science is a private nonprofit four-year college in NY.

Cost: about $26,683 a year on average with aid.

Economic mobility (Opportunity Insights): 11% of students came from families in the bottom fifth of income, and 18% of those reached the top fifth as adults.

High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science: 3, 4 enrolled students between them — ranked by graduates per class year, most often Northwood School (0.4 per class year, 2 over 5 class years, Classes of 2021-2025); Archmere Academy (0.2 per class year, 1 over 5 class years, 2022-2026); Vermont Academy (0.2 per class year, 1 over 6 class years, Matriculation List (2021-2026)). 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/paul-smiths-college-of-arts-and-science.

High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science: 1, 1 admissions between them — ranked by admissions per class year, most often Lake Tahoe Prepatory School (1.0 per class year, 1 over 1 class year, 2025). 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/paul-smiths-college-of-arts-and-science.

Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/paul-smiths-college-of-arts-and-science.json

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