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The program does not cover the cost of campus housing, meals, required fees, or program/college-specific curriculum fees.","source_url":"https://www.umass.edu/financialaid/amherst-advantage","verified":true},"at_a_glance":["UMass Amherst is a public four-year college in MA. It admitted 58% of applicants (50,424 applied, 2023). Test policy: Test-optional.","Middle 50% of enrolled first-years who submitted that test: SAT 1300\u20131480, ACT 29\u201333. 27% of enrolled first-years submitted an SAT score, 4% an ACT \u2014 these ranges describe students who submitted, not the whole class. Average enrolled GPA 4.05 (weighted, 2025-26, as published by the college).","Cost: about $22,383 a year on average with aid, $34,549 a year at full price for in-state students.","Median earnings ten years after entry: $71,631 a year. Payoff, meaning ten years of that pay minus four years of cost: $626,778 ahead with aid, $578,114 ahead at full price.","Highest median earnings four years after the degree, by program: Computer Science ($123,519); Computer Engineering ($113,083); Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering ($101,091).","Aid pledge published by the college for 2025-26: families earning under $75,000 pay no tuition (MA residents; covers in-state tuition + fees only).","High schools that publish a numbered matriculation list and name UMass Amherst: 62, 145 enrolled students between them \u2014 ranked by graduates per class year, most often The Williston Northampton School (3.0 per class year, 3 over 1 class year, Class of 2026 / Classes of 2022-2025, counted column \"Class of 2026 Matriculation List\"); Beaver Country Day School (2.0 per class year, 10 over 5 class years, Five Year Summary 2022-2026); Falmouth Academy (2.0 per class year, 2 over 1 class year, 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/university-of-massachusetts-amherst.","High schools that publish a numbered list of college acceptances naming UMass Amherst: 10, 43 admissions between them \u2014 ranked by admissions per class year, most often Middlesex School (13.0 per class year, 13 over 1 class year, Class of 2026, counted column \"accepted\"); Archbishop Mitty High School (10.0 per class year, 10 over 1 class year, Class of 2025); Oratory Preparatory School (3.0 per class year, 3 over 1 class year, Class of 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/university-of-massachusetts-amherst.","Machine-readable version of this page: https://highschoolreach.com/colleges/university-of-massachusetts-amherst.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":"Public","cost":{"by_family_income":[{"band":"$0\u201330K","net_price":10164},{"band":"$30\u201348K","net_price":10456},{"band":"$48\u201375K","net_price":12932},{"band":"$75\u2013110K","net_price":18964}],"full_price":34549,"in_state_basis":true,"mode":"range","net_price_with_aid":22383,"npc_url":"https://www.umass.edu/net_price_calculator/","tuition_in_state":17772,"tuition_out_of_state":40449},"earnings":{"median_10yr_after_entry":71631,"median_6yr_after_entry":60347},"feeder_schools":{"admitted":{"admits":43,"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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