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Your state's public flagship
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
58%
admit rate
$17,772
in-state tuition/yr · $40,449 out-of-state
1300–1480
SAT 25–75 · ACT 29–33
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $22,383/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
Their published matriculation list
Where their graduates enrolled
School Year Abroad publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 61 colleges, in the document's own order.
Years, as the document states them Since 2020
Barnard College (12+ students)Brown University (12+ students)Cornell University (12+ students)Emory University (12+ students)George Washington University (12+ students)Georgetown University (12+ students)Amherst College (4+ students)Bowdoin College (4+ students)Colby College (4+ students)Colgate University (4+ students)College of William & Mary (4+ students)Dartmouth College (4+ students)Davidson College (4+ students)Howard University (4+ students)John Cabot University (Rome) (4+ students)Johns Hopkins University (4+ students)Purdue University (4+ students)Santa Clara University (4+ students)University of North Carolina (4+ students)University of Pennsylvania (4+ students)University of Texas (4+ students)Williams College (4+ students)American University (8+ students)Boston College (8+ students)Colorado College (8+ students)Columbia University (8+ students)Hamilton College (8+ students)McGill University (8+ students)Northwestern University (8+ students)NYU - Shanghai (8+ students)
and 31 more
Princeton University (8+ students)Stanford University (8+ students)University of Michigan (8+ students)University of Washington (8+ students)Vanderbilt University (8+ students)Washington University St. Louis (8+ students)Wesleyan University (8+ students)American University of Paris (6+ students)Boston University (6+ students)Claremont McKenna College (6+ students)Duke University (6+ students)Fordham University (6+ students)Harvard University (6+ students)Macalester College (6+ students)Scripps College (6+ students)Syracuse University (6+ students)Trinity College (Dublin) (6+ students)University of Virginia (6+ students)University of Wisconsin (6+ students)Wake Forest University (6+ students)Middlebury College (6+ students)New York University (6+ students)Northeastern University (6+ students)Tufts University (6+ students)Tulane University (6+ students)University of California - Berkeley (6+ students)University of California - UCLA (6+ students)University of Chicago (6+ students)University of Southern California (6+ students)University of St. Andrew's (Scotland) (6+ students)Yale University (6+ students)
Independently verified
As published by School Year Abroad — SYA Profile for Colleges 2025 ↗.
Found at: page 2 of 2, "College Matriculation" section.
About this listing
School Year Abroad is listed by NAIS. It has not reported to the federal
Private School Survey, which is voluntary, so enrollment figures are not available here — many of the
country's oldest independent schools are in the same position.
The school's own site: www.sya.org ↗
Not enough enrollment history on file to chart a trend for this school yet.
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